PATTERSON AND DICKSON CEMETERY

This cemetery is located in Cleveland County, N.C. in No. 4 Township, 4
½ miles southeast of Kings Mountain, N.C. on R.F.D.  No. 1, and 100
yards southwest of the old Patterson home place.  It is bout 200 yards
from sand clay road leading to Kings Mountain-York Highway.  It is south
of Kings Mountain City Water Plant, 2 ½ miles.

Owner of Cemetery:  John Owens

Approximate number of marked graves:  12
 Unmarked graves    15

Earliest marked grave:  Thomas Patterson, d. Oct. 15, 1841

General condition of cemetery:  Grown up in oaks (three large ones) and
weeds.  It is in an oval shape about fifty feed wide in the center,
surrounded by a field.  Road to cemetery abandoned.

[Note is made that some twenty years ago (c. 1919) several members of
the Dickson Family were moved from this cemetery to El Bethel Methodist
Church between Kings Mountain and Shelby, NC.]

Date of survey:  June 27, 1939
Workers:  Forest Williams and A. G. Melton

Inscriptions:

Patterson, R. S.
B.  May 25, 1840
D.  June 1, 1862

Patterson, Dr. A. B.
"Sargant in the N.C. Troops.  Died in Richmond,"
B.  Dec. 18, 1830
D.  July 8, 1862

Hogue, Dora, wife of
  A. J. Hogue
B.  Oct. 30, 1867
D.  Nov. 5, 1891
Age:  24 yrs, 5 days

Patterson, John
B.  Feb. 11, 1845
D.  June 21, 1858

Patterson, Sarah
D.  July 15, 1846
Age:  10 years

Patterson, Narcissa
D.  Nov. 28, 1888
Aged:  81 years, 6 months

Patterson, Thomas
D.  Oct. 15, 1841 in his
  39th year

Patterson, Martha
D.  Sept. 26, 1843
Aged:  5 mos., and 8 ds.

Dickson, Sarah
D.  Feb. 12, 1843
Aged:  66 yrs., 6 mos.

Dickson, Peter
D.  Dec. 6, 1852
Aged:  36 yrs.

Dickson, Robert
D.  April 20, 1856
Aged:  8 yrs., 8 mos., 11 ds.

Dickson, Elizabeth
Died in the 52nd year of her age
[No dates]

W. & J. Patterson
1818

______
Arthur Patterson, Sr., Pioneer Settler, Killed in
Battle of Kings Mountain and Buried on Battle Field
______

Arthur Patterson, Sr., settled on King's Creek, 3 ½ miles south of Kings
Mountain, N.C., about 1760 on what is known as the Patterson land, still
in the family and now owned by Mr. J. M. Patterson, of Kings Mountain,
N.C.  J. M. Patterson says that Arthur Patterson was killed in the
Battle of Kings Mountain and that he was very probably buried there on
the Battle Field.  He was probably fifty years old, so says Mr.
Patterson.  Arthur Patterson had five sons-Arthur, Jr., Thomas, William,
Robert, and James.  The three oldest sons, while out hunting, were
captured by Ferguson's men and taken prisoners.  But when the battle
started they got loose and helped hang some Tories the next day.  The
Patterson old house still stands on the old plantation, having been
built by Arthur Patterson's three oldest sons, namely, Arthur P., Jr.,
Thomas, and William.  The house was built about 1790.  An infant
daughter of Robert Patterson (unnamed) died in 1814 and was buried on
the old Patterson farm 200 yards NW of the old Patterson house.  This
information was given by Mr. J. M. Patterson.

Data by P. Cleveland Gardner:

Draper, pp. 302, 312 and 313, relates the story of Arthur Patterson,
Sr., and his three sons, Arthur, Jr., Thomas and William.  Also, on pp.
290, 343, 344, Draper mentions the "Gallows Oak" of Kings Mountain on
which Tories were hanged, both of which are in Cleveland County.  Both
of these sites should be properly marked.

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This cemetery is among the many Cleveland cemeteries included on the Cleveland Count WPA Cemeteries CD,
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