• General Notes

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  [Br²derbund WFT Vol. 5, Ed. 1, Tree #0725, Date of Import: Apr 16, 2002]
  
  She is recorded with Patrick Luther Patterson in the 1880 Kentucky
  Census. Her age is listed as 33. Her name is recorded as Gilia A.
  She is recorded in the Texas 1920 Census as living with Howard Morton
  Patterson. Her age is recorded as 73. Her birthplace is recorded as
  Kentucky as well as her mother and father.
  Supervisor's District # 18
  Enumeration District # 18
  Sheet 22, Line 75.
  
  From the "Samuel Combest and His Descendants" Book is the following:
  Gilla, the second child born to Wiley and Martha Hammond Combest on
  11/22/1848, in Kentucky, married Patrick Luther Patterson on 8/24/1865.
  The ceremony was performed at the home of Wiley Combest by William Roy.
  Patrick Luther Patterson, the son of Benjamin Pierce Patterson of
  Kentucky and Martha J. Peck Patterson of Tennessee, was born 8/1/1846 in
  Lumpkin County, Georgia. The Patterson family had moved back and forth
  between Tennessee and Georgia until Patrick's father, Benjamin, was
  conscripted into the army of the Confederacy in 1863. Patrick had already
  left home and on 11/1/1862, he lied about his age and joined Captain
  Buster's Company, 32nd Regiment of the Kentucky Volunteer Infantry.
  Although Benjamin Patterson had lived in the South for nearly twenty
  years, his loyalty lay with the North. He was from the Blue Grass State,
  the birthplace of Lincoln, and could not bring himself to fight in a war
  against his own son. on December 1, 1863, he turned himself in to Union
  forces at Benton, Tennessee and was imprisoned at Nashville. He was sent
  to Louisville, Kentucky, where he took an oath of allegiance to the Union
  and was released on parole on 12/10/1863. His family had already made the
  move to Russell County, Kentucky, and he joined them there.
  In the early part 1892, Patrick and Gilly Combest Patterson moved to
  Collin County, Texas. Patrick's brother Thomas was there, along with his
  son Howard M. Patterson and several members of the Combest family. Around
  1907, most of the Patterson families moved to Clay County, Texas. Patrick
  bought a farm of 160 acres about nineteen miles from Henrietta, Texas. He
  wasn't to remain there long as his wife, Gilly, went to homestead land in
  Union County, New Mexico Territory with their son Luther. Patrick then
  returned to Russell County, Kentucky.
  On Sept 18, 1908, Gilla Ann Combest Patterson was granted a divorce from
  Patrick Patterson in Union County, New Mexico. One year from the date of
  his divorce, on Sept 8, 1909, Patrick married Martha E. Wilkerson in
  Liberty, Kentucky. He died on Jan 11, 1925; his will was probated in
  Russell County, Kentucky on Feb 10, 1925.
  On Sept 23, 1910, Gilla Ann Combest Patterson sent $2,000.00 to Clay
  County, Texas, to pay off the note held by J.W. Douthitt on the 160 acres
  in that county. She sold the 160 acres in September 1913 to the same J.W.
  Douthitt for $3,000.00 cash and a note for $1,000.00 to be paid within
  twelve months.
  Gilla went to live with her son, Howard, near Petrolia, Texas. Where she
  remained until her death February 20, 1922.

Details of Gilla Ann's family with Patrick Luther Patterson