{"id":1343,"date":"2018-12-03T19:42:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T01:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging-lp.mssdar.org\/?page_id=1343"},"modified":"2025-04-27T08:17:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T13:17:01","slug":"chapter-activities-2-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/louisianapurchase.mssdar.org\/?page_id=1343","title":{"rendered":"John Patterson Grave Marking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, May 29, 2022, the Louisiana Purchase Chapter of the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, honored early St. Louis County pioneer and Revolutionary War solder John Patterson at Cold Water Cemetery in Florissant, Missouri. <br><br> The Louisiana Purchase Chapter, NSDAR, became interested in marking John Patterson\u2019s grave in June, 2021, while discussing projects for the 2021-2022 chapter year. A recently-deceased chapter member had long wished to mark her 5<sup>th<\/sup>-great-grandfather John Patterson\u2019s grave, and the chapter decided to make her wish come true. This project helped the chapter fulfill one of the DAR\u2019s missions \u2013 Historic Preservation \u2013 by marking Revolutionary War patriot graves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-content-justification-space-between is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-0dfbf163 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" src=\"https:\/\/louisianapurchase.mssdar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Louisian-Purchase-Chapter.jpg\" alt=\"Louisiana Purchase Chapter, NSDAR, members\" class=\"wp-image-822\" style=\"width:528px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Louisiana Purchase Chapter, NSDAR, members at the grave marking ceremony<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/louisianapurchase.mssdar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/John-Patterson-Grave.jpg\" alt=\"John Patterson's Grave, Cold Water Cemetery\" class=\"wp-image-824\" style=\"width:376px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/louisianapurchase.mssdar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/John-Patterson-Grave.jpg 600w, https:\/\/louisianapurchase.mssdar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/John-Patterson-Grave-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/louisianapurchase.mssdar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/John-Patterson-Grave-333x270.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">John Patterson&#8217;s grave, Cold Water Cemetery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, May 29, 2022, the Louisiana Purchase Chapter of the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, honored early St. Louis County pioneer and Revolutionary War solder John Patterson&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1343","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/louisianapurchase.mssdar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/louisianapurchase.mssdar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/louisianapurchase.mssdar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louisianapurchase.mssdar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louisianapurchase.mssdar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/louisianapurchase.mssdar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1609,"href":"https:\/\/louisianapurchase.mssdar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1343\/revisions\/1609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/louisianapurchase.mssdar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}