Will: Henry Holland (1852)

Henry Holland Will
Prince William County
Will Book Q, pg. 6

I Henry Holland of the County of Prince William and State of Virginia do make this my last will and testament in manner and form as follows, revoking all others.

I desire first that all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid out of perishable property and debts due my estate.

2.  I give to my wife Mary F. L. Holland all my estate both real and personal during her life and then to my heirs forever.

Given under my hand this 23d day of January 1852.

Henry Holland

Signed and acknowledged in presence of

Reuben Ives
Samuel Stoddard

In Prince William County Court March 1st 1852.

This last will and testament of Henry Holland decd. was proved according to law by the oaths of Reuban Ives and Samuel Stoddard witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.  And on the motion of Mary F. L. Holland who made oath and together with Robert Hodgkin & Philip D. Lipscomb, her securities entered into & acknowledged a bond in the penalty of $5,000 conditioned as the law directs, certificate is granted the said Mary F. L. Holland for obtaining letters of administration on the decedent's estate, with the will aforesaid annexed in due form.

Teste,

J. Williams, c.c.

Sunday's Obituary: Antoinette (Stoddard) Patterson

Dallas Morning News (Dallas, Texas) – January 5, 1931

Dallas Morning News
January 5, 1931

WOMAN DIES IN DALLAS WHERE SHE MET MATE AS A VISTOR IN '80s. Church Leader of Dallas Dies. Mrs. Ed M. Patterson Formerly Neighbor of Washingtons.

Mrs. Antoinette Stoddard Patterson, wife of the late Ed M. Patterson, pioneer landowner of Dallas, died Sunday at 4:40 a.m. At her home, 2821 Routh street, where she has lived for twenty-four years. She would have been 69 years old Jan. 30. The funeral service will be held at the home Monday at 10 a.m. With burial in Oakland Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Joe Barry, Randolph Paine, Carl Buerbaum, B. E. Julian, R. R. Simpson and Gene Woods.

Mrs. John woods of Monterrey, Mexico, Mrs. Patterson's only child, and Miss Johnetta Woods, her only grandchild, were with her when death occurred, following a long illness.

Here Since Eighties. Mrs. Patterson came to Dallas in the eighties to visit Mrs. Barney Gibbs, and met Edward Martin Patterson, to whom she was married in 1881. They lived in Dallas continuously thereafter, and both were closely identified with the development of the city. Mr. Patterson died June 3, 1929. Mrs. Patterson was active in the Episcopal Church, being a communicant in the Church of the Incarnation. She taught a Sunday school class there, and was a member of the choir when the church was a mission. Her father-in-law, Judge James M. Patterson, was one of the donors of land for the first Episcopal Church in Dallas which stood at the corner of Elm and Lamar streets.

Neighbors of Washingtons. Mrs. Patterson was born on a plantation in Prince William County, Virginia, Jan. 30, 1862, being the daughter of John Sargent Stoddard and Annie Eliza Plummer Sargent. She has often described her old home as adjoining Mount Vernon, and has told how the Stoddards and the Washingtons “took turns” having the snow cleared away so that they could attend church. Mrs. Patterson's maternal grandfather, Dr. Benjamin Plummer, fought in the War of 1812, and a maternal ancestor Col. Issac Ewell, native of England, served as a Colonel in the Revolutionary War.