1842 Birth:2016 Birth date of 17 November 1842 based on age at death (41 years, 2 months, 1 days) taken from 1884 death record. The same source indicates place of birth was Burlington Township, Licking County, Ohio.

1863-1880 Marriage:1276,1187, booklet 3, Burlington Township, p. 6.,2015 Marriage to Jurdon Patterson took place between the 1863 death of second wife Mary A. Warner and the 1880 census enumeration. This was the third marriage for Jurdon Patterson.

1880 U.S. Census:2015 E. C. Patterson enumerated in the household of her husband Jurdon Patterson in Burlington Township, Licking County, Ohio as a white, female, age 38, wife, married, keeping house, born in Ohio, father born in Virginia, mother born in Virginia. Also included in household were:
J. E. Stevens •• white, male, age 18, at school, cannot read or write, born in Ohio, father born in New York, mother born in Ohio << assume this to be son of Elizabeth from previous marriage to a man named Stevens
Samuel Limming •• white, male, age 75, born in Virginia, father born in Virginia, mother born in Virginia << assume this to be father of Elizabeth.

1884 Death Record:2016 Eliza C. Patterson; female; death date, 27 January 1884; married; age 41 years, 2 months, 10 days; place of death, Burlington Township; place of birth, Burlington Township; occupation, housekeeper; cause of death, cancer of womb; residence, Burlington Township.