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/