Excerpt from Genealogy of the Patterson, Wheat and Hearn Families The Pattersons, Boons, Taggarts and Bonhams were a sturdy and strong willed people. In stature rather short and stout. They were of dark complexion. In religion, Orthodox Metho dists, and they believed in the teachings of the Holy Bible, and the Golden Rule. Politically they were Democrats. The Wheat family came from England, and belonged to the Church of England, but in this country they became Methodists and United Brethren. Many of the Wheat descendants were ministers and doctors. They believed in the Saving Power of Jesus Christ our Saviour, and that the Bible is the inspired Word of God. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.