Margaret French “Peggie” <I>Williams</I> Patton

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Margaret French “Peggie” Williams Patton

Birth
Culpeper County, Virginia, USA
Death
14 Sep 1873 (aged 68–69)
Staunton, Staunton City, Virginia, USA
Burial
Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Plot
Range 20, Sec. 10, H.S. 2
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Peggie married John in Fredericksburg, Virginia on 8 January 1824.

Peggie and John were parents to twelve children: Robert Williams (1825-76), John Mercer Jr., Isaac Williams, Lucy Ann (1829-31), Hugh Philip (1831-32), George Smith, Waller Tazewell, Mary Mercer, Eliza Williams, Hugh Mercer, James French, and William MacFarland. Three of their children, John Mercer Jr., Mary Mercer and Hugh Mercer, rest in this plot, owned by John Sr. Her maternal grandfather, Revolutionary War Capt. Phillip Slaughter of Culpeper, died while visiting Richmond in 1849 and is buried here as well.

Four of her grown sons attended V.M.I., and all of her grown sons served in the Confederate army. Waller Tazewell Patton and George Smith Patton, both Colonels of their respective regiments, were mortally wounded while leading troops in battle.

Lt. Gen. George S. Patton of WWII fame was her great-grandson.

In her last years, she was a patient at Western State Hospital in Staunton, one of two state-run mental hospitals. Her records there show the following:

First Name: Peggy F
Last Name: Patton
Occupation: Widow of lawyer
Admission Date: 1870/08/04
Gender: Female
Age: 66
Year of Birth: (Calculated): 1804
Social Relations: Widowed
Education: Liberal
Nativity: Virginia
Residence: Culpepper
No. Attacks: 1
Duration: 2 years 6 months
Supposed Cause: Domestic affliction
Date of Death: 1873/09/14
Progress: Unimproved
Remarks: Death from marasmus

(Thanks to Dick Johns #48002292 for this hospital data)
Peggie married John in Fredericksburg, Virginia on 8 January 1824.

Peggie and John were parents to twelve children: Robert Williams (1825-76), John Mercer Jr., Isaac Williams, Lucy Ann (1829-31), Hugh Philip (1831-32), George Smith, Waller Tazewell, Mary Mercer, Eliza Williams, Hugh Mercer, James French, and William MacFarland. Three of their children, John Mercer Jr., Mary Mercer and Hugh Mercer, rest in this plot, owned by John Sr. Her maternal grandfather, Revolutionary War Capt. Phillip Slaughter of Culpeper, died while visiting Richmond in 1849 and is buried here as well.

Four of her grown sons attended V.M.I., and all of her grown sons served in the Confederate army. Waller Tazewell Patton and George Smith Patton, both Colonels of their respective regiments, were mortally wounded while leading troops in battle.

Lt. Gen. George S. Patton of WWII fame was her great-grandson.

In her last years, she was a patient at Western State Hospital in Staunton, one of two state-run mental hospitals. Her records there show the following:

First Name: Peggy F
Last Name: Patton
Occupation: Widow of lawyer
Admission Date: 1870/08/04
Gender: Female
Age: 66
Year of Birth: (Calculated): 1804
Social Relations: Widowed
Education: Liberal
Nativity: Virginia
Residence: Culpepper
No. Attacks: 1
Duration: 2 years 6 months
Supposed Cause: Domestic affliction
Date of Death: 1873/09/14
Progress: Unimproved
Remarks: Death from marasmus

(Thanks to Dick Johns #48002292 for this hospital data)

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