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Reference: Haywood Patterson who lives two and one half miles south of Baltonia, then turn east to the second house on the south side of the road (colored man).
A full-blooded Irishman who had lived in Mississippi, left the south and came to live in Randolph County. He brought with him two colored women whom he succeeded in getting this far without them being captured. He built two houses just a stone's throw apart, southeast field from where Mr. Patteron's home is now located and placed one of the colored women in each house. He would live in one house a week and then in the other house a week, having children by both women, but being married to neither. Some of his descendants are still living. P.M.B. Thompson was a son and Betsy Reynolds and Sarah Howland were two of his granddaughters. Mrs. Haywood Patterson is also a granddaughter.
Polk, Nelson As told by Rev. J. B. Polk Whitely, Muncie, Indiana (William Webb Tuttle Muncie, Indiana)
