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Life of Eliza Patten Washington 1910-1993 In Photographs
My Grandmother, Eliza Patten Washington, was born in Evergreen, Texas in 1910 and died in Houston, Texas in 1993. She was the youngest of four children of MB Patten and Pauline Garza Patten. Her father, Mason B. Patten was a railroad porter. He died in a rail accident and the insurance proceeds were used to send his children to College. Eliza attended Howard University in Washington D.C. where she received her B.S. in Psychology in 1932. Because her skin was very fair, she also passed for white in order to received treatment for Tuberculosis from which she was one of the first person to survive it in the United States. She died at 83.
These photographs are a fraction of what I have.
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