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Subject: [ALBUTLER] Obituary of Matthew Patton, 1860
Date: 16 Mar 2002 18:45:50 -0700

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Died--On the 25th inst. at his residence in Butler county, Matthew Patton, Sr.
In his death Butler county has lost one of her best and most useful citizens. Plain, honest, unassuming, and of retiring habits, his virtues were but little known beyond the sphere of his immediate acquaintance. His social qualities and ardent affections made him a kind parent and good neighbor, a devoted and confiding friend. His love of truth and moral rectitude, his ready frankness in censuring wrong, was proverbial wherever he was known; and of him it might be well said, "an honest man is the noblest work of God." He has left a most interesting family to deplore his loss, with whom we most sincerely sympathize.--A Friend
[from the June 2, 1860 edition of The South Alabamian]

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