PARSONS, Shedrick – Came from England in 1853 and shortly thereafter settled on the N 1/2 of the SW 1/4 of Section 16 which became later known as the John Roth farm.

PARSONS, William E. – Came from England (probably with Shedrick) in 1853 and a few years later farmed in the Panola area.

PATRICK, Allen and Eliza J. – With Eli Patrick, Allen patented the NE 1/4 of Section 29 in Greene Twp. and other lands in the same section on September 4, 1838. It is believed he arrived in Greene Twp. with the other Patricks in 1829. He served in Captain McClure's Bloomington Company in the Black Hawk War, enlisting May 5, 1832. Allen and his wife moved to Tazewell County in 1842.

PATRICK, Edward Fitz and Mary Jane McCord – Edward was a Revolutionary War veteran who was born in Ireland in 1760, and kidnapped for sea duty when a small youth. He finally jumped ship and settled in North Carolina. His pension claim was No. W-1988. When he moved to Overton County, Tennessee is not known, but he married Mary Jane McCord, whose mother was the Mrs. Jane McCord who became something of a hero because she milked her cow as commanded by the British soldiers, and then defiantly poured the milk on the ground instead of giving it to them. Edward had a brother who had been kidnapped with him, and from whom he became permanently separated. Apparently Mary Jane died before the Patricks and the McCords migrated to Greene Twp., as Edward is believed to have come with his daughter, Amanda Bilbrey, arriving in 1830. Edward died near Gabetown in 1834, and is buried in the old cemetery there – the area's only grave of a veteran of the Revolution. He was the father of the four or more Patrick boys, and at least three girls, Amanda and Jane (Moore) and Cerena (Hinthorn).

PATRICK, Eli and Mary Amanda McCorkle – Settled in Greene Twp. in 1829 with the other Patricks and patented his first land on November 17, 1835 with Allen Patrick in Section 29, and the same day the W 1/2 of the NW 1/4 of Section 28 in his own name. He was an election judge in the 1841 County organization.

PATRICK, William – A member of the Patrick family who settled in Greene Twp. from Overton County, Tennessee, in 1829. Cousins of the McCords.

PATRICK, Winslow and Almira – Originally from North Carolina, the large Patrick family came to Greene Twp. in 1829 from Overton County, Tennessee. Winslow was killed in a logging accident in the spring of 1830, before the "winter of the deep snows." It was the first Greene Twp. death of record. His widow, Almira, later married a Joseph Moore, not the same Joseph Moore who was El Paso's first Mayor, this being perhaps the Twp.'s first wedding.

PATTERSON, Daniel C. and Elizabeth – Daniel was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, December 3, 1821, and one of the several persons who migrated from there into Greene Twp., naming it for their old county in Pennsylvania. Patterson arrived on the E 1/2 of the NW 1/4 of Section 27 in December of 1851, and purchased the farm on December 10, 1852. Daniel was the father of Thomas Patterson, said to be Panola's first merchant.

PATTERSON, Green Lee and Mary J. Brashears – Green Lee was born in Indiana, 9-26-27. He was the son of Joshua and Mary E. (Bell) Patterson. He made the gold rush trip to California in '50 and lived there three years. Green Lee returned via the Isthmus of Panama and settled in Palestine Twp. in 1856 with his bride. He was a member of the Christian Church and the Republican Party.

PATTERSON, Thomas – Panola's first storekeeper in 1854, and served on that Twp.’s first board of highway commissioners in 1855.

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