Posted by sfgenealogy on Saturday, August 01, 2009 at 14:13:46 :

PATTON--BY STATE TELEGRAPH, San Francisco, May 7 -- Mrs. John PATTON died suddenly yesterday at the St. Nicholas Hotel. She arrived on the last steamer from the East and was not known to be sick.

Source: Stockton Daily Independent, 8 May 1869. Transcribed by Dee Sardoc.