MARION LEANDER PATRICK

The following bio was taken from pages 337-338 of the book entitled “Rusk County History” compiled and edited by Rusk County Historical Commission

Transcribed by Gloria Riley

Submitted by Gloria B. Mayfield, Rusk Co. CC 

Marion Leander Patrick, the second child of John Currence Patrick and Martha Jane (Heath) Patrick was born April 2, 1878, in the Patrick Community, Rusk County, Texas and died on September 6, 1956 in San Antonio, Texas. He is buried in the Pine Hill Methodist Cemetery, Pine Hill, Texas. He requested that he be laid to rest beside his father, his grandfather and other Patrick's in the old cemetery. My father, Marion L. Patrick, married Mary Ellen Gilbreath on November 27, 1912 at her home near Minden, Rusk County, Texas. She was the daughter of John Baxter W. Gilbreath and Catherine (Mays) Gilbreath, born on June 23, 1889, at Minden, Texas. My mother was sixteen years old at the time her father passed away, leaving her the oldest of the children at home. She had just finished what we know today as junior high school. She lived at home with her mother until she and my father married. Her younger brothers and sisters were all gone from home, either having married or having died. A little while later, about a year, Grandmother Gilbreath disposed of her interest in the old Gilbreath home and lived with my father and mother the rest of her life. My mother died on October 27, 1971 in San Antonio, Texas and was buried in the Pine Hill Methodist Cemetery. Marion and Mary Ellen had five sons: Henry Lee Patrick, born November 22, 1913, Minden, Texas; Arthur Ray Patrick, born November 1, 1915, La Gloria, Texas; Otis Wilson Patrick, born December 17, 1971, Ft. Worth, Texas; Roy Clifton Patrick, born July 1, 1920, Saltillo, Texas; and Robert Ollie Patrick, born June 17, 1922, Timpson, Texas. My parents moved from East Texas in 1926 and settled on a farm in Jim Wells County, Texas. Before, during and after World War II, my father and I had a dairy farm located about eight miles southeast of Alice. During the War, I had an occupation deferment in order to work with my father in the dairy. We maintained a herd of about one hundred and forty cows on four hundred acres of land. I shall never forget an incident that happened one afternoon when I was in the corral feeding the cows. My father had gone into the bull pen to feel or change the bulls. As usual our collie-German mixed dog went into the pen with him. As I glanced toward my father just as he was leaving the pen, our Holstein bull charged and knocked him down. Laddie saw this and jumped between them, grabbed the bull by his nose and pulled him away. My father received only a few bruises. My father retired after the war. He and my mother enjoyed the rest of their lives visiting the children and other kin folks. I, Robert Ollie Patrick, will be retiring in January 1982, having served twenty-six years as a San Antonio policeman. My wife of twenty-eight years, Foy Miller Patrick, and I hope to enjoy retirement. Submitted by Robert Ollie Patrick