John William Patty and his family are fairly well known and generally appear in Mississippi. After the Confederate Congress passed the tax-in-kind act JWP became the governor's choice for tax-in-kind agent for Winston County. His receipts for expenses appear in the Confederate citizens papers. Jesse Patty and his family are perhaps a little less prominent. For example Thomas Jefferson Patty, a veteran of Co. "A", 13th Mississippi Regt., moved to Sherman TX about 1879 an established a commercial operation there. Henry Meek Patty also went to Sherman to establish a law practice. He later moved to Atlanta and became a lawyer with political connections in that growing city.
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The Pattys of Winston County were never classic Mississippi planters but rather businessmen, and were able to avoid ruin and poverty that affected so many Southern families after the war.