George Scott Patterson was born in Girard, Crawford, Kansas on the 23rd
of March, 1874 and died in Ogden, Utah on November 25th, 1942. He died of “pulmonary embolus” due to “cancer of the bladder”. His occupation at death was listed as "expressman" for the Ogden Transfer Company.
"In his early married days he worked for the old street car company in Salt Lake City and we would stand out in front of our house and wave to him every time he went by. As his family grew in size, he gave that up and bought a team of horses, and a wagon and would haul anything that he could get to do -- his team of horses was always special and had the best of care and he was so gentle with them -- on Sundays and holidays everything was cleaned out -- and we'd go for picnics to the canyons -- Dad and the boys hiking and Mother and the girls staying in camp -- just enjoying the beauty of the streams and the mountains. In his spare time he always had a big garden -- we also had a quite a large orchard and plenty of room for swings, see-saws, etc -- and there was natural springs, bubbling up around the back yard. Dad rocked them all in; they wound around the trees -- Mother then planted her flowers in all those little rivlets and streams and it was a beautiful place, which we all remembered. After Mother passed in 1921we loaded up everything and moved to Ogden. And Dada worked with his team for a number of years in the gravel pits. He finally sold the horses and went to work for the Ogden City Transfer Co. until he retired in his early 60's. He always had a twinkle in his eyes -- and was a friendly person -- he was a gentle man -- a man that left us with a lot of lovely memories."
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