Editing George S. Patton (section)

=== Ancestry ===
The Patton family was of [[Scottish Americans|Scottish]], [[Irish Americans|Irish]], [[Scotch-Irish Americans|Scots-Irish]], [[French Americans|French]], [[English Americans|English]] and [[Welsh Americans|Welsh]] ancestry. Patton's great, great grandfather, Robert Patton, of Ayrshire, Scotland, emigrated from Scotland to America.{{CN|date=February 2025}} His great-grandmother came from an aristocratic Welsh family, descended from many Welsh lords of [[Glamorgan]],{{sfn|Axelrod|2006|p=13}} which had an extensive military background. Patton believed he had formerly lived as a soldier and took pride in mystical ties with his ancestors.<ref>{{cite book|author=Army Times|title=Warrior; the story of General George S. Patton|year=1967|publisher=Putnam|page=15}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Michael Keane|title=George S. Patton: Blood, Guts, and Prayer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=byMjBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA84|year=2014|publisher=Regnery|page=84|isbn=978-1-62157-298-5|access-date=November 13, 2016|archive-date=August 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160804072721/https://books.google.com/books?id=byMjBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA84|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6_KcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PP3|title=Great Leaders: George Patton|publisher=New Word City|year=2014|pages=3–4|author1=Willard Sterne Randall|author2=Nancy Nahra|isbn=978-1-61230-622-3|access-date=November 13, 2016|archive-date=August 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160804061946/https://books.google.com/books?id=6_KcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PP3|url-status=live}}</ref> Though not directly descended from [[George Washington]], Patton traced some of his [[English American|English colonial]] roots to George Washington's great-grandfather. He is a 1st cousin six times removed of George Washington.{{sfn|Rice|2004|p=32}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Family relationship of General George S. Patton and George Washington via Lawrence Washington. |url=https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-chart.php?name=10565+george+s+patton&kin=3647+george+washington&via=3651+lawrence+washington |access-date=2024-07-03 |website=famouskin.com}}</ref> 

He was also descended from England's [[Edward I of England|King Edward I]] through Edward's son [[Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent]].{{sfn|Rice|2004|p=32}} Family belief held the Pattons were descended from sixteen barons who had signed [[Magna Carta]].{{sfn|Rice|2004|p=32}} Patton believed in [[reincarnation]], stating that he had fought in previous battles and wars before his time, additionally, his ancestry was very important to him, forming a central part of his personal identity.<ref>''21st Century Patton: Strategic Insights for the Modern Era'' edited by J. Furman Daniel III, p. 61.</ref> The first Patton in North America was Robert Patton, born in [[Ayr]], [[Scotland]]. He emigrated to [[Culpeper, Virginia]], from [[Glasgow]], in either 1769 or 1770.{{sfn|D'Este|1995|p=9}} 

George Patton, Jr.'s paternal grandfather was [[George S. Patton Sr.|George Smith Patton]], who commanded the [[22nd Virginia Infantry Regiment|22nd Virginia Infantry]] under [[Jubal Early]] in the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] and was killed in the [[Third Battle of Winchester]], while his great-uncle [[Waller T. Patton]] was killed in [[Pickett's Charge]] leading the [[7th Virginia Infantry Regiment|7th Virginia Infantry]] regiment during the [[Battle of Gettysburg]]. Patton also descended from [[Hugh Mercer]], who had been killed in the [[Battle of Princeton]] during the [[American Revolutionary War]]. Patton's father, who graduated from the [[Virginia Military Institute]] (VMI), became a lawyer and later the [[district attorney]] of [[Los Angeles County]]. Patton's maternal grandfather was [[Benjamin Davis Wilson]], a merchant who had been the second [[Mayor of Los Angeles]].<ref name="snac/99166/w6nm5g3z">{{cite web |title=Patton family |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6nm5g3z |website=[[Social Networks and Archival Context]] |access-date=8 September 2022 |archive-date=September 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220908001432/https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6nm5g3z |url-status=live }}</ref> 

His father was a wealthy rancher and lawyer who owned a {{convert|1000|acre|spell=in|adj=on}} ranch near [[Pasadena, California]].<ref name="snac/99166/w6nm5g3z" /><ref name="Essame2008">{{cite book|author=Essame|title=Patton|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EeQ5CEeVPC4C&pg=PA2|date=November 10, 2008|publisher=Da Capo|page=2|isbn=978-0-7867-4305-6}}</ref>{{sfn|Zaloga|2010|p=6}} Wilson had married into one of the original Southern California settler families by marrying Ramona Yorba, who was the daughter of prominent [[Californio]] (Spanish and Mexican settlers in California) [[Bernardo Yorba]], after whom the city of [[Yorba Linda]] is named. Patton is also a descendant of French Huguenot [[Louis DuBois (Huguenot)|Louis DuBois]].<ref>Bennett, Abram Elting. ''Huguenots migration: descendants' contributions to America''. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984. p. 109.{{ISBN?}}</ref><ref>Patton, Robert H. ''The Pattons: A Personal History of an American Family''. 1994, pp. 3–5.{{ISBN?}}</ref>