She is buried with her sisters Ellen Patterson and "Bessie" Anderson, among others
The birth date is from her undertaker's burial record, which differs from family records and some census reports but agrees with other census reports.
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San Diego Union, Jan. 13, 1915:
PATTERSON -- In this city, Jan. 11, 1915, Blanche Patterson, sister of Mrs. Lloyd Irvine and Mrs. Robert Anderson of this city; a native of Pennsylvania.
Friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services to be help at the chapel of Bradley & Woolman, C street, corner of Seventh, today (Wednesday), Jan. 13, 1915, at 2 o’clock p.m., Rev. F.E. Hallenbeck officiating. Interment Mt. Hope cemetery.
[ The reference to Robert Anderson is in error. Blanche's sister Bertha "Bessie" was married to Amos Anderson. Their son was Robert. Mrs. Lloyd Irvine was another sister, Henrietta, who first lived in the District but moved to San Diego, and then returned to the District by the 1910 census, died and was buried there, along with the sisters' parents. ]
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In the 1870 census, Blanche was a school teacher living with her birth family in Marietta, Lancaster Co. PA.
It is not yet clear where she was for the 1880 census -- not with known family; debateably the school teacher "cousin" from Pennsylvania of apt age living in South Carolina, but the Thomas Grove head of household is not a known family name on either her mother's Blaine side or father's Patterson side.
in 1888, the District of Columbia city directory shows her living with her mother and brother John, removed after 1880 from Harrisburg, PA. That year's D.C. city directory is the source of the initial A as a middle name for Blanche; family records never referenced a middle name or initial for her and neither does Blanche's California obituary.
In the 1900 census, Blanche Patterson shared a home with her brother James B. Patterson, in the District of Columbia, where other Pattersons were living or buried. At age 54, she was no longer described as a teacher, then, but was described in the census as being head of household for her brother.
Sometime before 1905, Blanche traveled from the District of Columbia to San Diego, CA, to live with her educator sister Ellen, and to benefit her own health, according to Ellen's 1905 obituary. Neither sister had married. They are buried next to each other -- Ellen and husband's being the only marked graves of the family in Mount Hope.
The 1910 censuses appear to have skipped Blanche.
The undertaker's burial record provides the birth and death dates used for this memorial. The cemetery confirmed the burial plot locations (with additional assistance by volunteer Findagrave photographer Carol Jackson)
The birth date is from her undertaker's burial record, which differs from family records and some census reports but agrees with other census reports.
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San Diego Union, Jan. 13, 1915:
PATTERSON -- In this city, Jan. 11, 1915, Blanche Patterson, sister of Mrs. Lloyd Irvine and Mrs. Robert Anderson of this city; a native of Pennsylvania.
Friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services to be help at the chapel of Bradley & Woolman, C street, corner of Seventh, today (Wednesday), Jan. 13, 1915, at 2 o’clock p.m., Rev. F.E. Hallenbeck officiating. Interment Mt. Hope cemetery.
[ The reference to Robert Anderson is in error. Blanche's sister Bertha "Bessie" was married to Amos Anderson. Their son was Robert. Mrs. Lloyd Irvine was another sister, Henrietta, who first lived in the District but moved to San Diego, and then returned to the District by the 1910 census, died and was buried there, along with the sisters' parents. ]
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In the 1870 census, Blanche was a school teacher living with her birth family in Marietta, Lancaster Co. PA.
It is not yet clear where she was for the 1880 census -- not with known family; debateably the school teacher "cousin" from Pennsylvania of apt age living in South Carolina, but the Thomas Grove head of household is not a known family name on either her mother's Blaine side or father's Patterson side.
in 1888, the District of Columbia city directory shows her living with her mother and brother John, removed after 1880 from Harrisburg, PA. That year's D.C. city directory is the source of the initial A as a middle name for Blanche; family records never referenced a middle name or initial for her and neither does Blanche's California obituary.
In the 1900 census, Blanche Patterson shared a home with her brother James B. Patterson, in the District of Columbia, where other Pattersons were living or buried. At age 54, she was no longer described as a teacher, then, but was described in the census as being head of household for her brother.
Sometime before 1905, Blanche traveled from the District of Columbia to San Diego, CA, to live with her educator sister Ellen, and to benefit her own health, according to Ellen's 1905 obituary. Neither sister had married. They are buried next to each other -- Ellen and husband's being the only marked graves of the family in Mount Hope.
The 1910 censuses appear to have skipped Blanche.
The undertaker's burial record provides the birth and death dates used for this memorial. The cemetery confirmed the burial plot locations (with additional assistance by volunteer Findagrave photographer Carol Jackson)
She is buried with her sisters Ellen Patterson and "Bessie" Anderson, among others
The birth date is from her undertaker's burial record, which differs from family records and some census reports but agrees with other census reports.
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San Diego Union, Jan. 13, 1915:
PATTERSON -- In this city, Jan. 11, 1915, Blanche Patterson, sister of Mrs. Lloyd Irvine and Mrs. Robert Anderson of this city; a native of Pennsylvania.
Friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services to be help at the chapel of Bradley & Woolman, C street, corner of Seventh, today (Wednesday), Jan. 13, 1915, at 2 o’clock p.m., Rev. F.E. Hallenbeck officiating. Interment Mt. Hope cemetery.
[ The reference to Robert Anderson is in error. Blanche's sister Bertha "Bessie" was married to Amos Anderson. Their son was Robert. Mrs. Lloyd Irvine was another sister, Henrietta, who first lived in the District but moved to San Diego, and then returned to the District by the 1910 census, died and was buried there, along with the sisters' parents. ]
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In the 1870 census, Blanche was a school teacher living with her birth family in Marietta, Lancaster Co. PA.
It is not yet clear where she was for the 1880 census -- not with known family; debateably the school teacher "cousin" from Pennsylvania of apt age living in South Carolina, but the Thomas Grove head of household is not a known family name on either her mother's Blaine side or father's Patterson side.
in 1888, the District of Columbia city directory shows her living with her mother and brother John, removed after 1880 from Harrisburg, PA. That year's D.C. city directory is the source of the initial A as a middle name for Blanche; family records never referenced a middle name or initial for her and neither does Blanche's California obituary.
In the 1900 census, Blanche Patterson shared a home with her brother James B. Patterson, in the District of Columbia, where other Pattersons were living or buried. At age 54, she was no longer described as a teacher, then, but was described in the census as being head of household for her brother.
Sometime before 1905, Blanche traveled from the District of Columbia to San Diego, CA, to live with her educator sister Ellen, and to benefit her own health, according to Ellen's 1905 obituary. Neither sister had married. They are buried next to each other -- Ellen and husband's being the only marked graves of the family in Mount Hope.
The 1910 censuses appear to have skipped Blanche.
The undertaker's burial record provides the birth and death dates used for this memorial. The cemetery confirmed the burial plot locations (with additional assistance by volunteer Findagrave photographer Carol Jackson)
The birth date is from her undertaker's burial record, which differs from family records and some census reports but agrees with other census reports.
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San Diego Union, Jan. 13, 1915:
PATTERSON -- In this city, Jan. 11, 1915, Blanche Patterson, sister of Mrs. Lloyd Irvine and Mrs. Robert Anderson of this city; a native of Pennsylvania.
Friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services to be help at the chapel of Bradley & Woolman, C street, corner of Seventh, today (Wednesday), Jan. 13, 1915, at 2 o’clock p.m., Rev. F.E. Hallenbeck officiating. Interment Mt. Hope cemetery.
[ The reference to Robert Anderson is in error. Blanche's sister Bertha "Bessie" was married to Amos Anderson. Their son was Robert. Mrs. Lloyd Irvine was another sister, Henrietta, who first lived in the District but moved to San Diego, and then returned to the District by the 1910 census, died and was buried there, along with the sisters' parents. ]
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In the 1870 census, Blanche was a school teacher living with her birth family in Marietta, Lancaster Co. PA.
It is not yet clear where she was for the 1880 census -- not with known family; debateably the school teacher "cousin" from Pennsylvania of apt age living in South Carolina, but the Thomas Grove head of household is not a known family name on either her mother's Blaine side or father's Patterson side.
in 1888, the District of Columbia city directory shows her living with her mother and brother John, removed after 1880 from Harrisburg, PA. That year's D.C. city directory is the source of the initial A as a middle name for Blanche; family records never referenced a middle name or initial for her and neither does Blanche's California obituary.
In the 1900 census, Blanche Patterson shared a home with her brother James B. Patterson, in the District of Columbia, where other Pattersons were living or buried. At age 54, she was no longer described as a teacher, then, but was described in the census as being head of household for her brother.
Sometime before 1905, Blanche traveled from the District of Columbia to San Diego, CA, to live with her educator sister Ellen, and to benefit her own health, according to Ellen's 1905 obituary. Neither sister had married. They are buried next to each other -- Ellen and husband's being the only marked graves of the family in Mount Hope.
The 1910 censuses appear to have skipped Blanche.
The undertaker's burial record provides the birth and death dates used for this memorial. The cemetery confirmed the burial plot locations (with additional assistance by volunteer Findagrave photographer Carol Jackson)
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No tombstone at site. The unmarked graves for sisters Ellen and Blanche Patterson are adjacent to the double tombstone for their other sister Bertha "Bessie" Patterson Anderson and Amos Anderson.
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