This is Richard Kirk Patterson an average person born in Massillon 1977 and raised in Wilmot, Stark County Ohio with an interest in history since childhood. The direct line Patterson came from Maryland in the late 1700's and pioneered Congress in Wayne County and is thought to be of Scottish descent. Other pioneer lines of some historical significance in Wayne County is Simon Chaffin who name East Union Twp after Union, Maine where he farmed and raised children for years.
My father and his father's maternal side originated in the southeastern area of the state and those being Evans, Bigler, McCoy, Kirk, Curtis etc. Interesting find with Kirk is both 2nd great grandfathers with same last names (no relation) of my parents died the same year in Ohio, 1914 and are about 5 names apart in the Ohio Dept. Health death index.

Tyler is the other half of my genetics and not too much is known other than residing in Pennsylvania and being involved with the 19th and 20th century railroad and steel industry. My mother and uncle have recollections of visiting St. Marys Pa as a child where her great grandfather was a machinist at the roundhouse there since the 1870's. My grandma Rudy had family reunion pictures of Mennonite relatives in East Greeenville and North Lawrence, Ohio with their horse and buggies from her mother's side who were from Lebanon and Lancaster PA. Some of the other historical lineages to Snyder, Eberly, Snavely, Brubaker, Royer, Herr etc. Her father's parents were a coal mining family named Kirk and Legg who came from Durham, England.

Some research for my brother's father side, Lebo, caught my interest in the fact they pioneered Wayne County then moved into North Canton where his grandmother's (Lebo's Crafts) side Snyder name made it's mark in furniture and other businesses. Other lines from them pioneered North Canton Ohio like Marchant.

My life consists of simple living in a Christian community in South Carolina striving for holiness by faith. Daily particpating in worship services, fellowship, gardening, off grid solar, auto/tractor repair etc with hobbies in guitar, plus research in history of folk not related to and amateur/shortwave radio on the side.

Unbeknownst until now after researching genealogy, there were also Quaker, Huguenots among other intriguing revelations in my ancestry.

Getting started with this was a learning experience in how to communicate, suggest and edit properly. Actual family photos are preferred, and it doesn't present any problem temporarily displaying a few documents, source citations, or any like matter to substantiate the authenticity. Ideal to keep them displayed all the time if it's real old.

The present status with unknown burial memorials is to make apparent who the actual deceased is with the best info displayed so that it's reference material for future discoveries of the individual's grave location. My plans now are to leave those memorials alone and not to create anymore unknown burials unless on private property.

Much thanks and love to all those who have uploaded gravestones photos, digital flowers and to my long distant cousins!

Find a Grave is not genealogy but is part of a genealogy tool therefore i quote an experienced historian saying in a family genealogy book he had written over a hundred years ago:

"Doubtless errors will be found in this work. No genealogy can be free from them. But to hastily assume that the compiler is to blame for them is a grave injustice; he simply reports the facts that are given to him. The causes of error are very numerous.
Incorrect data may be given town clerks, or correct data may be
incorrectly recorded. Errors creep even into family records.
Gravestone inscriptions are not always to be trusted, especially
in their eulogistic statements concerning the character of the persons of whom they are memorials, epitaphs being sometimes monumental lies. Not only omissions, but falsifications, of dates are, for obvious reasons, occasionally made. Defective memory, illegible penmanship, and careless copying are responsible for many
errors. The author of this history has sometimes been given dates or statements quite diverse from each other by two, and even
three, informants of apparently equal authority, and nothing can try the genealogist's patience more than this. Correspondents are occasionally careless and guesswork is made to supply
the lack of record, the remark sometimes being made,
"I am not
sure this is correct, but I guess it is near enough for your purpose.""

HISTORY OF
ROBERT CHAFFIN
AND HIS DESCENDANTSAND OF THE OTHER
CHAFFINS IN AMERICA
By
WILLIAM L. CHAFFIN I I Author of "The History of Easton, Massachusetts" and "Robert
Randall and His Descendants"

Titus 3:9, KJV: But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain

This is Richard Kirk Patterson an average person born in Massillon 1977 and raised in Wilmot, Stark County Ohio with an interest in history since childhood. The direct line Patterson came from Maryland in the late 1700's and pioneered Congress in Wayne County and is thought to be of Scottish descent. Other pioneer lines of some historical significance in Wayne County is Simon Chaffin who name East Union Twp after Union, Maine where he farmed and raised children for years.
My father and his father's maternal side originated in the southeastern area of the state and those being Evans, Bigler, McCoy, Kirk, Curtis etc. Interesting find with Kirk is both 2nd great grandfathers with same last names (no relation) of my parents died the same year in Ohio, 1914 and are about 5 names apart in the Ohio Dept. Health death index.

Tyler is the other half of my genetics and not too much is known other than residing in Pennsylvania and being involved with the 19th and 20th century railroad and steel industry. My mother and uncle have recollections of visiting St. Marys Pa as a child where her great grandfather was a machinist at the roundhouse there since the 1870's. My grandma Rudy had family reunion pictures of Mennonite relatives in East Greeenville and North Lawrence, Ohio with their horse and buggies from her mother's side who were from Lebanon and Lancaster PA. Some of the other historical lineages to Snyder, Eberly, Snavely, Brubaker, Royer, Herr etc. Her father's parents were a coal mining family named Kirk and Legg who came from Durham, England.

Some research for my brother's father side, Lebo, caught my interest in the fact they pioneered Wayne County then moved into North Canton where his grandmother's (Lebo's Crafts) side Snyder name made it's mark in furniture and other businesses. Other lines from them pioneered North Canton Ohio like Marchant.

My life consists of simple living in a Christian community in South Carolina striving for holiness by faith. Daily particpating in worship services, fellowship, gardening, off grid solar, auto/tractor repair etc with hobbies in guitar, plus research in history of folk not related to and amateur/shortwave radio on the side.

Unbeknownst until now after researching genealogy, there were also Quaker, Huguenots among other intriguing revelations in my ancestry.

Getting started with this was a learning experience in how to communicate, suggest and edit properly. Actual family photos are preferred, and it doesn't present any problem temporarily displaying a few documents, source citations, or any like matter to substantiate the authenticity. Ideal to keep them displayed all the time if it's real old.

The present status with unknown burial memorials is to make apparent who the actual deceased is with the best info displayed so that it's reference material for future discoveries of the individual's grave location. My plans now are to leave those memorials alone and not to create anymore unknown burials unless on private property.

Much thanks and love to all those who have uploaded gravestones photos, digital flowers and to my long distant cousins!

Find a Grave is not genealogy but is part of a genealogy tool therefore i quote an experienced historian saying in a family genealogy book he had written over a hundred years ago:

"Doubtless errors will be found in this work. No genealogy can be free from them. But to hastily assume that the compiler is to blame for them is a grave injustice; he simply reports the facts that are given to him. The causes of error are very numerous.
Incorrect data may be given town clerks, or correct data may be
incorrectly recorded. Errors creep even into family records.
Gravestone inscriptions are not always to be trusted, especially
in their eulogistic statements concerning the character of the persons of whom they are memorials, epitaphs being sometimes monumental lies. Not only omissions, but falsifications, of dates are, for obvious reasons, occasionally made. Defective memory, illegible penmanship, and careless copying are responsible for many
errors. The author of this history has sometimes been given dates or statements quite diverse from each other by two, and even
three, informants of apparently equal authority, and nothing can try the genealogist's patience more than this. Correspondents are occasionally careless and guesswork is made to supply
the lack of record, the remark sometimes being made,
"I am not
sure this is correct, but I guess it is near enough for your purpose.""

HISTORY OF
ROBERT CHAFFIN
AND HIS DESCENDANTSAND OF THE OTHER
CHAFFINS IN AMERICA
By
WILLIAM L. CHAFFIN I I Author of "The History of Easton, Massachusetts" and "Robert
Randall and His Descendants"

Titus 3:9, KJV: But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain