This is Richard Kirk Patterson an average person born in Massillon and raised in Wilmot, Stark County OH. 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.

My grandma Rudy, born Kirk, had family reunion pictures of Mennonite relatives with their horse & buggies from her mother's side who were from Lebanon and Lancaster PA. Her grandparents from her father's side came from England.

Tyler is the other half of my genetics and not too much is known other than residing in Pennsylvania and involved with the 19th and 20th century railroad and steel industry.

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 to those who have uploaded gravestones photos.

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 and raised in Wilmot, Stark County OH. 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.

My grandma Rudy, born Kirk, had family reunion pictures of Mennonite relatives with their horse & buggies from her mother's side who were from Lebanon and Lancaster PA. Her grandparents from her father's side came from England.

Tyler is the other half of my genetics and not too much is known other than residing in Pennsylvania and involved with the 19th and 20th century railroad and steel industry.

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 to those who have uploaded gravestones photos.

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