James Butler, 17581841 (aged 82 years)

Name
James /Butler/
Birth
Birth of a brother
Birth of a sister
Birth of a brother
Birth of a brother
Birth of a sister
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Footnote: reported by Betty Chaney Morrow

INDI:EVEN:SOUR:_FOOT: reported by Betty Chaney Morrow
Death of a mother
Marriage of a parent
Birth of a half-brother
Birth of a half-sister
Birth of a son
Birth of a son
Birth of a daughter
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Footnote: (age 63 1850 census)

INDI:EVEN:SOUR:_FOOT: (age 63 1850 census)
Birth of a daughter
Death of a father
Birth of a daughter
Birth of a daughter
Birth of a son
Marriage of a daughter
Marriage of a son
Marriage of a daughter
Death of a father
Marriage of a daughter
Marriage of a daughter
Birth of a daughter
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Footnote: Date per Madine Evans; age 26, 1850 census

INDI:EVEN:SOUR:_FOOT: Date per Madine Evans; age 26, 1850 census
Death of a son
Birth of a son
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Footnote: Madine Butler Evans, age 26, 1850 census

INDI:EVEN:SOUR:_FOOT: Madine Butler Evans, age 26, 1850 census
Marriage of a son
Birth of a son
Death of a brother
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Footnote: Lydia Butler Anderson

INDI:EVEN:SOUR:_FOOT: Lydia Butler Anderson
Death of a brother
Burial of a father
Death
about 1841 (aged 82 years)
Burial
Family with parents
father
17361816
Birth: about 1736 20 Hanover Co. VA
Death: between 1814 and 1816Elbert Co. GA
mother
elder brother
3 years
himself
21 months
younger brother
17601838
Birth: March 1, 1760 24 Hanover Co. VA
Death: about 1838Elbert Co. GA
3 years
younger sister
1762
Birth: about 1762 26 Virginia
Death: Clarke Co. GA
5 years
younger brother
17661850
Birth: about 1766 30 Hanover Co. VA
Death: after 1850Madison Co. GA
4 years
younger brother
2 years
younger sister
Father’s family with Mary Elizabeth Brooks
father
17361816
Birth: about 1736 20 Hanover Co. VA
Death: between 1814 and 1816Elbert Co. GA
stepmother
Marriage Marriagebetween 1771 and 1772
3 years
half-brother
3 years
half-sister
Family with Sally ?
himself
partner
son
5 years
son
17861860
Birth: about 1786 27 probably Mecklenburg Co. VA
Death: between 1850 and 1860Coosa Co. AL
2 years
daughter
4 years
daughter
5 years
daughter
17951874
Birth: January 19, 1795 36 Elbert Co. GA
Death: January 5, 1874Shelby Co. AL
3 years
daughter
3 years
son
24 years
son
Family with Consadie ?
himself
partner
daughter
3 years
son
Shared note

JAMES BUTLER served in the Military during the Revolutionary War as a resident of Mecklenburg County, Virginia. He moved to Wilkes (now Elbert) County, Georgia in a year or two after the war and applied for a Revolutionary War pension in Elbert County, Georgia, 21 Jan 1833. His pension was transferred to Alabama from the Georgia Agency. James certified 11 September 1841 that he had resided in Shelby County, Alabama since the last part of 1836.

His military service as follows

  1. Drafted in the year 1778, for 2 months duty with Captain James Anderson Company, of Col John Burton's regiment.
  2. Drafted in the year 1780, for 18 months duty with the companies of Captain Richard Swepson(?) and Captain Scott, of Colonial William Daris's Regiment. He was in engagement at "Woods Point" on the James River.
  3. Drafted in the year 1781, for 2 months duty.

According to Howard Butler: the genealogists he conferred with there are more children than listed; however, their names have not been found.

The Heritage of Shelby County - In the 1785 Early Tax Digest of Wilkes County, Georgia, James received bounty land for his service in the War. He removed to Georgia right after 1790 to life on his land, which by then was located in Elbert County, formed from Wilkes County.

James was a resident of Elbert County for 46 years. He was a member first of Bethel "E" Baptist Church, and later in Elbert County of Falling Creek Baptist located on old Post Road, Elberton, Elbert County.

In 1833 James applied for and received a pension, the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 6, 1832.

In 1836, James along with neighbors and relatives, moved to Shelby County Alabama in a wagon train headed by Jordan Jones. Jordan had been a neighbor of James in Elbert County for 30 years, and helped James join his family in Alabama. On June 5, 1837 James applied to have his pension changed to his new residence in Alabama. He gave the following reasons for removing "from the State of Georgia - "because I have ten children who reside in Shelby County Alabama and I am desirous to spend the short residue of my life with them. This and this alone was the only cause which induced me to remove."

A grand daughter of James married a son of Jordan Jones. James died after June 1, 1840, and was buried in what later became the Jones-Bailey Cemetery on land belonging to Jordan. James was possibly the first person to have been buried there. A collection of stones in a built up rectangle with sloping sides and flattened top was placed over his grave site. Such mounds of stones were also used back in Georgia to marker earlier Butler graves. The cemetery is listed on the State Historical Registry.

James Butler was twice married and was the father of 21 children. On October 16, 1983, a monument was dedicated and placed by the Shelby Historical Society.