Re: Edmond Ray Butler was a wagon maker for traveling Morman
BUTLER, MCCOLL, MCCOLE, BINNALL, BINALL, BINNELL, LOWE, THORNTON
Posted By: Robin Butler Daviet (email) In Response To: Re: Edmond Ray Butler was a wagon maker for traveling Morman (susan dixon)
Date: 6/7/2005 at 13:04:10
Dear Susan,
To the best of my knowledge, John Lowe Butler did not have any Native American blood. Following is a quote from "My Best For The Kingdom" by William G. Hartley."John's two grandfathers were rebels whose exploits and examples no doubt seemed heroic to young John's mind. Granfather William Butler gained fame in his day and since as a leader of the North Carolina Regulators in Orange County, who protested 'dishonest sheriffs, excessives taxes, and extortionate fees.' William was among the Regulators who were arrested, freed by outraged citizens, convicted, declared to be outlaws, hunted, fomentors of a riot, and repelled at the Battle of Alamance in May 1771. Britain branded William Butler and the Regulators criminals, but local citizens and later historians called them patriots, much like the Sons of Liberty in Massachusetts. When the War for Independence broke out, William and his brother John fought against the Crown.
John's other grandfather, William Lowe, fought in the Revolutionary War for North Carolina and was a religious maverick possessed by a pioneering spirit. After marrying Margaret Farr in 1778, the two wished to change their lives, and they gave themselves to much prayer and Bible reading. She joined the Baptists; he became a Methodist. They moved to South Carolina where he joined the Baptists and was set apart to the ministry. He preached for a few months but then was exluded for heresy, the nature of which was not recorded. After a brief associaiton with the Dunkards, a Baptist sect that practiced triple immersion, he never affiliated again with any denomination. In the spring of 1796 he and Maragaret moved to Sumner County, Tennessee. That fall he opened a trail over the ridge into what is now Simpson County to become the first white settler there. He continued to exhort his neighbors and preach his own brand of Chistianity but did not baptize or build up any particular church.
John knew Granfather Lowe personally, but Granfather Butler died eighteen years before John was born. However, John's sense of family and belonging was starched by stories he heard about these two men. Both had dared to rebel against the status quo, something John would do when he convert4ed to Mormonism, despite the opposition of neighbors and relatives."
It does not appear he was anything but white.
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