I am looking for relatives of a Tom/Thomas/Tommie Patterson who was born in Cumberland county, North Carolina in 1892. His father was William Patterson and his mother was Fannie Gainey. He married a Melissa Melvin in Cumberland County, NC in 1913. He left N.C. and went to Petersburg, Virginia (1920) (US Federal Census) as a laborer in the shipyard. Then he moved to Lackawanna, Erie, New York (1930) US Federal Census) and worked in the steel mills. I believe he settled in Buffalo, New York. I am trying to connect with relatives. Tom/Thomas Patterson was my great uncle. He had four children or more. The know children are Magadaline/Madgalene, William, Braxton and Elizabeth Patterson.