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James W. Patton |
| "Mr. James W. Patton owned Beaucatcher Mountain, east of Asheville, and about 1850, he erected on it a summer-house as a place of resort. Several young couples did their courting in visiting this summer-house; and that fact is said to have given rise to its name of Beaucatcher. During the war on the South it was fortified....The late A. C. Avery, for many years a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, once remarked to me that his engagement to his first wife had been made on a visit to this summer-house on Beaucatcher. This lady was Miss Morrison, a sister of the wife of Stonewall Jackson and of the wife of the Confederate General D. H. Hill. (1922. Sondley, F. A. Asheville and Buncombe County, p. 45.) |
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