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A group of villages -- Pattonville, Mackeville, Bonfils and Brotherton - developed during the period around the Civil War.
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The first village, Pattonville, actually was started with the establishment of a smithy's forge by the teenage son of the Lucases, who immigrated from Luxemberg, Germany, to inland America in 1855 with their 12-year-old son, Thomas T. Lucas, and daughter, Kate. They built a two-room log cabin on the north side of St. Charles Rock road and, within a few years, the husky youth opened a blacksmith shop in the vicinity of St. Charles and Fee Fee Church roads. When John R. A. Patton and his brother, Elliott, opened a store in 1860, the community of Pattonville was well on its way. A school already existed on Fee Fee road and with the building of both Mizpah Presbyterian and Fee Fee Baptist churches by 1870, Fee Fee--as it was known them--became the focal point for farmers in the area.

[picture caption:] The Pattons' store, established in 1860 and later operated by (Walter E.) Post and (John) Schroeder, from whom it was purchased in 1900 by Charles Christian Branneky. Today [1956], it still is part of the general merchandise store run by Bran- neky's sons, Oliver and Harry.

In the summer of 1863, Lucas-only 20 years old at the time-purchased almost seven acres of land on the south side of the Rock road, paying $625 to Erastus and Ardelia Post. He also was married about that time to Augusta Heidorn, and he erected a home, carriage repository and blacksmith shop on his new property. Lucas, a native of Holland, was naturalized May 17, 1873, by the St. Louis County circuit court. He also bought land of John F. Quisenberry and others. He and his wife, daughter of Frederick Heidorn of Bridgeton, had four children, Thomas Heidorn Lucas, who be- came a doctor; Anna Elizabeth Lucas, who married William Blackwell, a Pattonville farmer; Frank G. Lucas, who was christened George Francis, and little Moltke, who died in 1880 at the age of four.

Lucas began making carriages and was an in- ventor. In 1874, he patented his own make of hub and wheel. Three years later, he also paid $2000 to Benjamin Slusser of Ohio for the patent on his prize-winning plow. Lucas became noted as its manufacturer. The share had won first places at the St. Louis state fair in 1981, Indiana state fair of the following year, Ohio state fair and the 1877 state plow trial at Columbia, Missouri. In fact, in a short time, Lucas was advertising himself as "The King of Sulky Plows."

The date of the Pattons' emigration to Missouri is not known, but their father probably was re- lated to Abram Patton, who had reached as far west as Loutre Island in 1810 when he was killed by Indians. Patton and a group of settlers pursued a band of eight Pottowatomies, who had stolen a number of horses, for a night and day to a spot near what is now Mexico, Missouri. The Indians crept up on their second-night camp and killed two men and fatally wounded Patton with their first volley. Another frontiersman, Stephen Cole, killed four of the savages in hand-to-hand combat and drove them off, but Patton was found dead near a sapling after the battle.

The Pattons operated the store for more than 20 years. John was a bachelor, but Elliott was married, had three children, Charles, Lillie and Belle, and owned a large farm, originally settled in the early 1800s by his father, James Patton, who died in 1851 when he was 68 years old.

In 1876, the name of the post office was changed to Pattonville, and one of the brothers was named postmaster.

Meanwhile, Lucas' blacksmith shop had been converted into a carriage factory. At first, he had made vehicles on a small scale but with increased daily traffic on the Rock road, his business flour- ished. By 1880, Lucas was turning out 60 ve- hicles a year and had added the manufacture of 200 sulky plows annually to his output.

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Notes:

James Patton and family migrated to Missouri between 1834 and 1842, probably around 1840. They are recorded among the organizers of the Mizpah Presbyterian Church in 1842.

Abram Patton - Have not found the name Abram Patton mentioned at all in the family tree of James A. Patton (1787-1851) - or anywhere else, for that matter. I would estimate that Abram Patton was born 1770/1790.

James A. Patton - Was born 10 June 1787 at Stafford Co., Virginia son of George Gordon Patton (1757-1813) who was born in Scotland and Sarah Stringfellow (1766-1848); died 1 Sep 1851 at Fee Fee, St. Louis Co., Missouri; buried at Fee Fee Church Cemetery; married (reportedly) 1805 at Stafford Co., Virginia to Agnes (Agatha) McInteer. She born 17 July 1789 at Stafford County, Virginia daughter of Alexander McInteer and Sarah Sinclair (St. Clair?); died 28 July 1847; buried Fee Fee Church Cemetery.

John R. A. Patton - Was born Sep 1835 in Virginia; died 20 Feb 1904 at Montgomery Co., Missouri; buried at Fee Fee Church Cemetery. He did marry 1890/1891 to Frances "Fannie" Woods and they had one child, a daughter, Oribell "Ossie" Patton, born 10 Mar 1893; died 5 Sep 1973 at Montgomery County, Missouri. Ossie never married.

Elliott W. Patton - Was born 1823 in Virginia; died 8 Jan 1872 at Fee Fee, St. Louis Co., Missouri; buried at Fee Fee Church Cemetery; married 14 Feb 1855 at St. Louis Co., Missouri to Elizabeth Jane Patterson. She born 22 August 1833, d/o John Patterson Jr. and Jane Jamison; died 31 May 1927 at Fee Fee, St. Louis Co., Missouri; buried Fee Fee Church Cemetery. Children: Lillian "Lillie" Patton Lindley (1855-1910), Mary Belle Patton Easterday Toland (1858/9-aft1930), Charles Elliott "Charlie" Patton (Lydia Benfield) (1861-1922).