CAINS AND BUTLERS

TEXT: This excerpt concerning Cains was sent by Betty S. Drake, Ph. D.,> Genealogy Reference Librarian.>> CAIN>> The first known ancestor in the Butler family in the CAIN line was JOHN> CAIN, born in South Carolina June 24, 1770. He died in Amite County,> Miss. in August 1851. His wife was Martha Johnson of South Carolina.>> They moved to Hancock County, Ga., and had a large family of boys and> girls, all born in Georgia. He and his family moved to Amite County in> 1807 and settled on the west prong of the Amite River, some 6 miles north> of Liberty, near where the Gloster road intersected the Liberty-Natchez> Road, close to Zion Hill.>> Their children were as follows:> SARAH, born July 1790; died July 12, 1811.> JANE, born Sept. 6, 1792; married Moses Seale Feb. 12, 1811.> ELIZABETH, born Feb. 26, 1794; married Meredith Bonds.> WILLIAM, born Dec. 6, 1795; died Aug. 30, 1819.> ANDREW, born Aug. 16, 1797; died Sep. 8, 1881; married (1) Eunicy Day who> died early; (2) Mary Ann McGehee, born June 3, 1825; died March 24,> 1903.> MARGARET, born Dec. 12, 1799; married Nov. 4, 1819, Rev. Rowland> Wilkinson.> ELIJAH, born Dec. 8, 1801; died before 1851.> NANCY, born Feb. 18, 1804; died June 27, 1842.> ============================================================>

Instructions. To read enlarge each page by clicking, read, and then use back button and click the next page. Sorry, but this was the easiest way for me. As a favor if you know anything about James V. Wilkinson who became my step-grandfather after my grandfather died, please send it to me at lbutler@embarqmail.com. My father told me a little, but I'd like to know more. Also, should you know where my grandfather, DECATUR N. BUTLER Jr. 's grave is located in Amite County, please E-mail me. Thanks.

Luther Dale Butler, Sr. (b. Nov. 14, 1929) ...
Luther Dale Butler, Sr. (b. Nov. 14, 1929) is the Grandson of Decatur Noonan, Jr. and Susan Harrell Butler and the son of David Homer Butler who took his sick brother to Durango, Colorado to recover from Tuberculosis in 1918.. In 1985 I became disabled after exposure to an insecticide in the work place. With failing vision, unable to walk very far while in a Fort Worth Hospital, I began to write about the descendants of James Butler from Dublin, Ireland whose genealogy was in my possession. Knowing only that James left Ireland to take care of a family plantation on Barbados, and instead of returning to Ireland, he came to Louisa, Virginia, I began a fictitious account of he and his descendants. Knowing almost nothing about my ancestors until the fourth novel, Mississippi Woman, which is partly based on Grandmother Butler, I had a little more to go on for my writings. Son Wilkerson in the book, Homesteaders and Sheep Herders, was like me born in Alamosa, Colorado in 1929 when my parents were returning from a trip to Cleburne, Texas to sell a boxcar or two of Delicious Apples grown near Farmington, New Mexico. Unlike Son Wilkerson, my military time was spent as an enlisted man in the United States Navy where my career was ended when I contacted polio in the summer of 1954. Sent to Bethesda Naval Hospital, I was used as a LSD experiment. After I had written the ten novels in La Plata County Series, I acquired a bad copy of My Butler Grandparents by Margaret Lucille Butler Gordon (published 1953). For future generations I am putting this wonderful book on a web site so other descendants of James Butler can read it. If anyone can furnish me with a better copy of My Butler Grandparents I would like to repost this site.Use this link to read more about La Plata County Series and my childhood in La Plata County, Colorado. I've also posted a journal my deceased brother, Melvin Butler, wrote.http://lbutlerlaplata.blogspot.com/