Hulda Ann POTTS
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: May 12, 1874 - River Falls, SC
Christening:
Death: Apr 27, 1961 - Greenville, South Carolina
Burial: Apr 28, 1961 - Graceland Memorial Gardens, Greenville, SC
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Ira D. POTTS (1837-1912)
Mother: Julie BURNS (1840-1922)
Spouses and Children
1. *John "Bunyan" PATTERSON (Oct 2, 1869 - Jun 28, 1951)
Marriage: Jan 6, 1895 - Piedmont, SC
Status:
Children:
1. Annie Inez PATTERSON (1896-1975)
2. Emma Belle PATTERSON (1897-1990)
3. Lillian PATTERSON (1899-1986)
4. Henry Grady PATTERSON (1901-1902)
5. John Harper PATTERSON Sr. (1902-1976)
6. Jay Hugh PATTERSON (1904-1972)
7. Sylva PATTERSON (1905-1906)
8. Nettie Lee Etta PATTERSON (1908-1996)
9. Robert Emerald Houston PATTERSON (1910-1983)
10. Joe Edward PATTERSON (1912-2003)
11. Arlin PATTERSON (1914-1917)
12. Mary Kathryn PATTERSON (1917-1998)
Notes
Death Notes:
Burial Apr 28, 1961. Obituary listed Apr 27, 1961, page 14, Greenville News.General:
Information on the Potts side of the Patterson family as furnished by Joe E. Patterson.
Hulda Ann Potts Patterson (Mama) was born at River Falls in upper Greenville County, SC. When the Piedmont Mills was started (with water wheel power) her mother and dad moved to Piedmont, SC and he became a watchman at the mill. The mill would work eleven year olds and up so Mama and her sisters went to work in the mill. Mama was the youngest daughter.
Aunt Lyda married a Timmons and stayed in Piedmont until her death in 1938.
John Bunyan (Papa) came to Piedmont and was hired by Grandma Potts (Julie Potts) to take care of her farm and drive a "hack" to meet the train each day and to take the "drummers" wherever they wanted to go.
Two of Mama's sisters died with tuberculosis, called consumption, from working in the mill. One sister married a Tarrant. Her husband committed suicide; then she died and their two children came to live with Grandma Potts who reared them. Grandma Potts and all her family except Mama, Aunt Amelia, and Aunt Mary are buried in Piedmont in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Papa was going to leave Grandma Potts and find other work. At the time he was dating Mama so Grandma Potts told Mama she ought to marry Papa as there was no one to take his place on the farm. So Papa asked Mama to marry him. She said yes , so he took the almanac to her and asked her to pick a date for the wedding. She turned to January 6 and that was the date they were married - January 6, 1895.
After Annie Inez, Emma Belle and Lillian were born, Grandma Potts asked Mama and Papa to go up to River Falls to live in the home up there. Henry Grady was born there but died as a baby and is buried at Gap Creek Baptist Church cemetery.
Grandma Potts was a Burns before she married Grandpa. Her family lived at Cedar Mountain, NC, just above River Falls. At that time there was a road from River Falls to Cedar Mountain called Jones Gap Road. All this area is now part of the SC State Park.
Aunt Mary and her husband are buried at River Falls. Aunt Amelia is buried in Graceland Cemetery, Greenville, near Mama and Papa. Mama's parents were:
Ira D. Potts (May 11, 1837-September 9, 1912)
Julie Burns Potts (July 18, 1840-April 29, 1922)
Sylva, John Harper and Jay Hugh were born at River Falls. Papa worked at logging at Sylva, NC one winter and Colonel Hamilton stayed with Mama that winter. When Sylva was born, Papa liked the name Sylva so much that he wanted to name the baby Sylva. The baby boy Sylva did not live long. He died a short while after coming to Greenville in 1906.
Mama said Papa talked with some people that were moving out west to Oklahoma and she thought that was where they were going but they ended up at Brandon Mill in Greenville. She knew what it was like living at a mill village from her young years at Piedmont and she did not want her children growing up at a mill village.
The mill officials at Brandon gave Papa a house at 9 Smith Street. There Annie married William Thornhill, a next door neighbor. She was the first child to be married. Then Lillian eloped with Roy Hamby at the age of 18. Nettie, Houston, Arlin, Joe and Kathryn were born there. The mill officials built two more rooms onto ther house to keep Papa there. Then in March 1920, they gave us a bigger house at 12 Mason Street where we had in-house plumbing with a bath. All other homes had outside "privys" and no bath. Water was at a spigot outside in the yard. Arlin died in 1917. While we were at 12 Mason Street, Emma married Lonnie Wade.
When Mama and Papa first came to Brandon, Uncle John and Aunt Martha Jane Stamey were living there. Mama and Papa stayed with them a few days before getting a house. Potts Cove is the area in River Falls where they came from.
When Mama and Papa left Brandon Mill, they moved to what is now 111 Bradley Street, Greenville. Papa built the house and farmed the land.