Life History

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• Family Data Collection - Births
  Rufus A Butler
  Father Thomas F Butler
  Mother Mary Elizabeth Ingram
  Birth 1827 TN USA
  
  1850 Federal Census, Panola County, Mississippi, 24 October, District 13, p 686 (344), Hse/Fam #532
  Rufus A Butler 23 M Farmer $0 Real Estate b Tennessee [born abt 1827]
  Mary Butler 18  Tennessee [born abt 1832]
  Thomas E Butler 4mos M Mississippi [born abt March 1850]
  Elbert S Abernatha 14 F b Tennessee [born abt 1836]
  
  Mary died sometime before the 1860 census.  Her two young sons, Thomas age 10 and John age 8, are in the household of hotel keepers F M Wells and his mother E B Wells in the same area where their parents had their farm.  Rufus' youngest brother, 17-year-old Robert James Butler, is also enumerated in the Wells' household, perhaps as a resident in the hotel.  Robert is working as a Merchant's Clerk.
  
  1860 Federal Census, Panola County, Mississippi, 11 August, Page 45, House/Fam #300
  F M Wells 34 M Hotel Keeper $0 Personal Estate $2200 Personal b Miss [born abt 1826]
  C C Pence 26 F    b SC [born abt 1834]
  E B Wells 60 F b Virginia Cannot read or write [born abt 1800]
  W S Wells 23 M House Carpenter b Alabama [born abt 1837]
  ** Thos Butler 10 M b Miss [born abt 1850] **
  ** John Butler 8 M b Miss [born abt 1852] **
  ** Robert Butler 17 M Merchant's Clerk b Miss [born abt 1843] **
  
  Robert and Rufus' brother, 21-year-old  G W, is enumerated on the previous page, working as an Overseer on a farm.
  
  Rufus served the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War.
  
  U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
  Rufus A. Butler
  Side Confederate
  12th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry, Company F, Rank Private
  
  Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865
  R Butler, Private
  Co I (?), 12th Mississippi Infantry
  Surrendered 4 May (1864?) Gibsonville, Alabama
  Paroled 19 May Jackson, Mississippi
  Residence Holmes County, Mississippi
  
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  Rufus A Butler, Private
  Capt J R Dickins' Company, 12 Reg't Mississippi Volunteers
  Company Muster Roll, 16 May 186_
  Enrolled Feb 186_ Sardis, Mississippi
  Mustered into Service 20 Apr 1861 Sardis
  Remarks:  This company was successively designated as Captain Dickins' Company, Mississippi Volunteers, and as Captain Dickins' Company, Captain Crump's Company, (Old) Company E and (New) Company F, 12th Regiment Mississippi Infantry.
  The 12th Regiment Mississippi Infantry was organized May 1861 of companies which had previously been in the State service and was mustered into the Confederate service fro twelve months.  About April 1862 the regiment was reorganized and the letters of all companies, except D, were changed.
  From a copy (made in the M. S. Office, War Department, in March, 1905.) of an original record borrowed from the Director of Archives and History, Jackson Miss. -- M S 938010
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  After the war, Rufus settled in Alabama.
  
  1870 Federal Census, Marshall County, Alabama, 1 June, p 3, Hse/Fam #13
  -- page 2 --
  Greenwood, Green (?) 57 M W Clerk in Store $1000 Real Estate $600 Personal Estate b Georgia Cannot read or write [b abt 1813]
  Greenwood, Martha Ann 52 F W  Keeping House b North Carolina [born abt 1817]
  Greenwood, William S 16 M W b Alabama [b abt 1854]
  -- page 3 --
  Greenwood, John 13 M W b Alabama [b abt 1857]
  Vaughn, R H 21 M W School Teacher b Alabama [b abt 1849]
  ** Butler, R A 42 M W Carpenter b Tennessee [b abt 1828] **
  Hampton, George 18 M B Day Laborer b Alabama [b abt 1852]
  Henry, Pancy 50 F B Cook b Alabama [b abt 1820]
  Henry, Jenny 12 F B b Alabama [b abt 1858]
  
  About 1874, Rufus married Kate Rose, also now as Caty Rose.
  
  Alabama, Select Marriages, 1816-1957
  Rufus A. Butler
  Gender Male
  Marriage 15 Feb 1874 Marshall, Alabama
  Spouse Kate Rose
  
  Caty Rose
  Birth abt 1855 in Tennessee
  Death in Alabama
  Spouse Rufus A. Butler 1827 - 1900
  Children:
  Oscar Butler b 1875
  Beulah Butler b 1879
  --  Burgess and Webster, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/11921239/person/1049128338
  
  The are enumerated in the 1880 census in Etowah Conty, Alabama.
  
  1880 Federal Census, Etowah County, Alabama, 18 June, Gadsden and Turkey Town, District 66, page 22, Hse #111, Fam #112
  Butler, Rufus  W M  53 Blacksmith TN -- --
  Butler, Caty  W F 25 Wife Keeping House TN -- --
  Butler, Osca W M 5 Son Single AL -- --
  Butler, Beulla  W F 1 Dau Single AL -- --
  
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  Rufus A Butler
  Birth 1827 Giles County, Tennessee
  Death unknown Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama
  
  Rufus Butler was married two times. First to Mary James Abernathy and second to Katy Rose. He married Mary Abernathy in either Tennessee or Mississippi and had three sons Thomas Ethelbert Butler, Oscar Butler and John Butler. Oscar and John died young. Rufus and Katy married in Alabama and had William Oscar Butler, Beulah Rose Butler Cantley and Nora Butler Middlebrook. There may be other children but are not known at this time. Rufus lost his first wife and two of his sons in the 1850's. He then moved to Alabama and married Katy Rose. Not sure when either Rufus or Katy died..still searching
  
  Parents:
  Thomas F. Butler (1802 - 1851)
  Mary Elizabeth Ingram Butler (1809 - 1855)
  Spouse Mary James Abernathy Butler (1830 - 1854)
  
  Children:
  Thomas Ethelbert Butler (1852 - 1925)
  Nora Middlebrook (1885 - 1963)
  Siblings:
  John Benjamin Butler (1829 - 1887)
  George Washington Butler (1839 - 1907 Half-sibling)
  
  Burial Unknown in Alabama
  
  Created by Jan Burgess Lipford Aug 21, 2011
  --  Find A Grave Memorial #75258996, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=75258996
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Sources

• 1. Family Data Collection - Births
• 2. 1850 Federal Census, Panola County, Mississippi
  • 24 October, District 13, p 686 (344), Hse/Fam #533
• 3. RootsWeb ID: I3216 -- Thomas F Butler
  • Name: no longer available online, ; Location: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=sarahc_ingram&id=I3216;;
• 4. 1870 Federal Census, Marshall County, Alabama
  • 1 June, Guntersville, PO Guntersville, p 3, Hse/Fam #13
• 5. 1880 Federal Census, Etowah County, Alabama
  • 18 June, Gadsden and Turkey town, District 66, page 22, Hse #111, Fam #112
• 6. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 7. Laurie Lee Myers, email correspondence with Orville Boyd Jenkins, March 2007
• 8. U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
  • Name: Date: 2007;;
• 9. Tennessee Death Certificates
  • Certificate #004513
• 10. Alabama, Select Marriages, 1816-1957
• 11. RootsWeb Trees
• 12. 1860 Federal Census, Panola County, Mississippi
  • 11 August, Page 45, House/Fam #300