Parents

Daughter of George Washington BUTLER & Sarah A BROWN.

Life History

Notes

• One early anonymous genealogy reproted Dixie's borth year as 1870.However, she does not appear in the 1880 census, and in the 1900census she is reported as 16 years old, with a reported birth date ofSeptember 1883.
  
  1900 Federal Census, Coahoma County, Mississippi, 20 June, beat 3,District 23, page 14B, Hse/Fam #307
  Butler, George W Head W M Dec 1889  60 Widowed 7 children/7 living ALTN AL Farmer Owns
  Butler, Dixie Dau W F Sept 1883 16 Single MS AL AL
  
  The Find a Grave memorial for Dixie Butler includes her obituary.  Aproblem occurs here with Dixie's birth date, also as reported in the1900 census, being 2 years after the reported date of death of hermother Sarah A Brown Butler.  Her burial monument hs her death date as23 August 1881.  The record of her death in the family Bible, however,is 23 August 1888.  It appeaers that the monument, set up when Salliewas reburied form her original burial spot on the family land to thecemetery, was engraved with the incorrect date.
  
  Also there is a younger brother, Thomas David Butler, born in 1885,also listed in the family Bible birth list.  Some birth dates in thislist have been erased and some overwritten with supposed corrections.The year of Dixie's birth has been erased, with no new date beingwritten over it.  The day of birth is 2 September.  The month matchesthe 1900 census, which reports birth in September 1883.
  
  Dixie Butler King
  Birth  Sep., 1883
  Death  Dec. 27, 1953
  
  Services for Mrs. Roy King, 310 School Street, who died Sunday morningat 8 at the Coahoma County Hospital, were held this morning [dateuncertain] at 11:00 at the family residence with the Reverend GarlandHolloman pastor of the Clarksdale Methodist Church officiating. Burialwas in Grange Cemetery. Mrs. King had been ill for about two weeks.
  
  Mrs. King, a native of Coahoma County was born near Jonestown on theButler Place. She was the former Miss Dixie Butler and was thedaughter of Mr. George Washington Butler and Mrs. Sally A. BrownButler. She was 65. She was a member of the Jonestown MethodistChurch. Mrs. King leaves a husband and two daughters, Miss MargaretAnderson of Clarksdale, and Mrs. D. F. Nelson of Larchmount, N.Y. Shealso leaves a brother, G. W. Butler of Jonestown, and a sister, Mrs.G. A. Cox, of Jackson.
  
  Parents:
  George Washington Butler (1839 - 1907)
  Sallie A Brown Butler (1848 - 1903)
  Children:
  Margaret Anderson (1907 - 1964)
  Burial:
  Grange Cemetery, Clarksdale, Coahoma County, Mississippi
  Created by: Jack77 Mar 28, 2011
  --  Find A Grave Memorial# 67584250,http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=67584250

Sources

• 1. 1900 Federal Census, Coahoma County, Mississippi
  • 20 June, Beat 3, District 23, page 14B, Hse/Fam #307
• 2. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
  • http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=67584250