James Butler, 1758–1841?> (aged 82 years)
- Name
- James /Butler/
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Source citation: Footnote: reported by Betty Chaney Morrow INDI:EVEN:SOUR:_FOOT: reported by Betty Chaney Morrow |
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Source citation: Footnote: (age 63 1850 census) INDI:EVEN:SOUR:_FOOT: (age 63 1850 census) |
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Source citation: Footnote: Date per Madine Evans; age 26, 1850 census INDI:EVEN:SOUR:_FOOT: Date per Madine Evans; age 26, 1850 census |
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Source citation: Footnote: Madine Butler Evans, age 26, 1850 census INDI:EVEN:SOUR:_FOOT: Madine Butler Evans, age 26, 1850 census |
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Source citation: Footnote: Lydia Butler Anderson INDI:EVEN:SOUR:_FOOT: Lydia Butler Anderson |
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father |
1736–1816
Birth: about 1736
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— Hanover Co. VA Death: between 1814 and 1816 — Elbert Co. GA |
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elder brother | |
3 years
himself |
1758–1841
Birth: June 5, 1758
22
— St Paul's Parish, Hanover Co. VA Death: about 1841 — Shelby Co. AL |
21 months
younger brother |
1760–1838
Birth: March 1, 1760
24
— Hanover Co. VA Death: about 1838 — Elbert Co. GA |
3 years
younger sister |
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5 years
younger brother |
1766–1850
Birth: about 1766
30
— Hanover Co. VA Death: after 1850 — Madison Co. GA |
4 years
younger brother |
1769–1835
Birth: about 1769
33
Death: about 1835 — Walton Co. GA |
2 years
younger sister |
father |
1736–1816
Birth: about 1736
20
— Hanover Co. VA Death: between 1814 and 1816 — Elbert Co. GA |
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Marriage | Marriage — between 1771 and 1772 — |
3 years
half-brother |
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3 years
half-sister |
himself |
1758–1841
Birth: June 5, 1758
22
— St Paul's Parish, Hanover Co. VA Death: about 1841 — Shelby Co. AL |
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son |
1782–1822
Birth: May 29, 1782
23
— Mecklenburg Co. VA Death: July 29, 1822 — Shelby Co. AL |
5 years
son |
1786–1860
Birth: about 1786
27
— probably Mecklenburg Co. VA Death: between 1850 and 1860 — Coosa Co. AL |
2 years
daughter |
1787–1860
Birth: about 1787
28
— Elbert Co. GA Death: between 1850 and 1860 |
4 years
daughter |
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5 years
daughter |
1795–1874
Birth: January 19, 1795
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— Elbert Co. GA Death: January 5, 1874 — Shelby Co. AL |
3 years
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3 years
son |
1800–1875
Birth: September 25, 1800
42
— Elbert Co. GA Death: September 3, 1875 — Shelby Co. AL |
24 years
son |
himself |
1758–1841
Birth: June 5, 1758
22
— St Paul's Parish, Hanover Co. VA Death: about 1841 — Shelby Co. AL |
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daughter | |
3 years
son |
Shared note
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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
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. |
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