Lillian
(Overfield) Patton
(1866-1938)
Lillian M. (Overfield)
Patton was born on Dec. 15, 1866, likely in Reedsville, Preston County, WV, the daughter of
John Edgar
and Sarah (Hanshaw) Overfield.
When the federal census was taken in 1900, the 33-year-old unmarried Lilly lived with her married brother and sister in law, John and Berdie Overfield, in Grafton, Taylor County, WV. That year, she had no occupation. Among their neighbors were cousins David A. Fawcett and William Henry Harrison Fawcett, who operated a local dry goods mercantile store.
Circa 1908, Lilllian was not married and used her maiden name, residing in Morgantown, Monongalia County, WV.
By 1911, she had married (?) Patton ( ? - ? ). Nothing further about him is known.
Seen
at left: postcard of the Monongahela Railroad passenger and freight station
on the west side of Morgantown, postmarked 1921.
At the death of her uncle Dr. Guy Hanshaw in 1908, Lillian was entitled to a 1/48 share of the estate, which included lucrative oil and gas wells. She received an immediate payout from the estate of $38.54 in 1909. At intervals over the years, through 1942, she received royalty payments from the wells. The high point was in 1918, when she received $16.36. In total, she received $171.74 in inheritance.
Lillian was residing in Bellevue, a suburb of Pittsburgh, in July 1932 when she was mentioned in the newspaper obituary of her sister Marian.
In the late 1930s, she was back in Morgantown.
She passed away on July 7, 1938, and was laid to rest in the Reedsville Cemetery in Preston County, near her parents. A search for her obituary in the Preston County (WV) Journal was unsuccessful.
According to a 1959 note written by her niece, Virginia (Menear) Dalton, Lillian had no children. Unfortunately, nothing further of her life is known.
The fate of Lillian's husband is shrouded by the mists of the past.
Copyright © 2004-2006 Mark A. Miner