Sussannah S. Patrick Stratton was the daughter of Thomas C. and Eleanor Hopkins Patrick. She came with her parents at the age of two years to what was referred to as "Clay Prairie" in Edgar County, Illinois. It was in that vicinity that she was to meet her future husband, John F. Stratton. Ironically her elder sister, Margaret, would marry his older brother, William J. Stratton. The Stratton family was the first family to move to this new territory in 1817. Over the course of years this linage moved from Edgar County to south of Effingham, Illinois, and than to Elk County, Kansas. The couple would have five children, John Thomas Stratton, George W. Stratton, Benjamin Franklin Stratton, Emily Jane Stratton and Mary Ellen Stratton.
Sussannah S. Patrick Stratton was the daughter of Thomas C. and Eleanor Hopkins Patrick. She came with her parents at the age of two years to what was referred to as "Clay Prairie" in Edgar County, Illinois. It was in that vicinity that she was to meet her future husband, John F. Stratton. Ironically her elder sister, Margaret, would marry his older brother, William J. Stratton. The Stratton family was the first family to move to this new territory in 1817. Over the course of years this linage moved from Edgar County to south of Effingham, Illinois, and than to Elk County, Kansas. The couple would have five children, John Thomas Stratton, George W. Stratton, Benjamin Franklin Stratton, Emily Jane Stratton and Mary Ellen Stratton.
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