 Federal census records document that her father by 1880 was a lawyer and residing with his wife and children in the home of his father-in-law, Garrick Archibald McDougal, a widower, who was also a lawyer and farmer in Savannah.That same census lists Elizabeth as the second child of the Pattersons' four offspring.She had an older sister, Annie Belle, and two younger brothers, Edmund and Archie.