Harrison BUTLER (b. 1815)

BUTLER, GIST, BLUNT, FINCH, HOUGH

Posted By: Linnie Howell (email)
Date: 6/7/2005 at 22:00:03

BUTLER, Harrison, farmer, Sec. 5; P. O. West Union; was born Tuscarawas Co., Ohio, Oct. 26, 1815; moved to Muskingum Co. in 1820. Was married, in 1839, to Amanda Gist; she was born in that county April 25, 1819; they moved to the Territory of Wisconsin in 1843; and to this county in 1850; made a claim, built a cabin in which they lived till 1855, then built the house they now occupy. Mr. Butler is one of the oldest settlers in this township; he owns 324 acres of land; have seven children living - Aryan (now Mrs. Blunt), Mary E. (Finch), Sarah E. (Hough), Joseph, George, John and William H.; lost three - Absalom, Ella and Edwin. Mr. Butler has been preaching the Old School Baptist Doctrine eighteen years. Mrs. Butler belongs to the same.

1878 History of Fayette Co. Iowa - Westfield Township
Page 687