Annie C. Patrick and John M. Patrick are buried at Patrick Memorial Cemetery. To our knowledge, they were the earliest born to be buried there. Both lived into the late 1800s and were the earliest known to have been photographed. It is not known if they ever actually lived on the homestead located where the cemetery is now.
According to the 1850 Census, John M. Patrick (1812) Jr. and Nancy (Annie) Patrick (1816) were living in Pike County, Georgia which is about 20 miles west of LaGrange, Georgia. It is unknown where in the county they resided. The census lists Alfred (aged 2) and two other children residing in the home. It was at some point after 1850 that they moved to Muscogee County. Nancy Singleton’s family were still living in Pike County in 1857, when Wyatt Singleton filed his last will and testament. They first appeared in the Muscogee County census in 1860.
The first known burial at Patrick Memorial Cemetery was in 1860 (Odum). This may support the idea that John M. Patrick Jr. and Nancy Singleton never lived on the property.
In 1864, during the Civil war, in Muscogee County, Georgia, there was a census (or) “enrollment” of eligible men to the Confederate army. Both James Hodge Patrick and John M. Patrick Jr. are among those made eligible for conscription.
