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BIRTH: 1860 Census of Putnam County, Tennessee
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Much of the information concerning the REV. JOHN BUTTRAM c o mes from his obituary, which appeared in "The Southweste r n Christian Advocate," Nashville, Tennessee, 11 Septembe r 1 841. John was born 1 June 1803 in Rowan County, Nort h Caro lina, went to Virginia, then Kentucky, then to Bleds oe Coun ty, Tennessee, where he married Mrs. Phebe Miser Br own in 1 821. John was licensed to exhort on 5 October 1830, and in 18 3 1 he moved to Rhea (now Meigs) County, Tennessee. He wa s l icensed to preach by the Methodist Episcopal Church o n 25 J uly 1836. He died at the age of 37 from a brain tum or whic h grew through his skull. The was a mass of brai n tissue " Protruding considerably from the right lateral v entricle o f the brain". He obituary is graphic in the des cription o f his symptoms, and relays his continuing care a nd ministr y to all those around him, up until a short tim e before hi s death. John had been a large land owner, selling 480 acres in Mei g s County in 1836 and 1837, and after the death of Phebe , th e Meigs County court found that the executor of her es tat e had fraudulently traded it and the persons who owed m one y to the estate had moved away or were insolvent.
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PHEBE died three years after Rev. John, leaving seven orph a n children. Two children had preceded her in death, an d tw o more died within four years. There are several docu ment s in Meigs County concerning the guardianship of thes e chil dren. Eventually, only three sons lived long enoug h to pro duce children who survived to adulthood. Since a n umber o f persons in successive generations died of tubercu losis, i t is thought that some persons in this household s uffered f rom the disease.
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GEORGE was 20 years old when his mother died. He, togeth e r with his sister Phebe Buttram II and Granny Nickels, as su med the responsibility for raising four younger childre n . Phebe continued this task after George's death in 184 7 a nd took the four children into the Roister (her husband 's ) home until 1851 when the four brothers emigrated to Pe a R idge, Benton Co. Missouri to be near their Uncle Georg e Was hington Miser. Source #16.
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LEVI served as a witness to the will of Joseph Cunningha m i n 1803 in Rowan County, North Carolina. He is reported ly m entioned in "Kentucky Kin of Wayne County", having bee n the re in 1809. His only known child, John Buttram, marr ied a t the age of 18 in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, so perh aps Jo hn went there in the company of his parents, Levi an d Eliza , if they were still living. All Bledsoe County re cords bu rned in a courthouse fire in 1908. Levi and Eliza 's birt h dates are from old family records, which were pro vided fo r the publication of "A Genealogy of the Meisser F amily", c ompiled by Lloyd E. Mizer, 1986.
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ELIZABETH was the granddaughter of James Bedwell, who died in 1771 in Kent County, Delaware. After his death, hi s sons moved to Rowan County, North Carolina. In November 1800, the year in which Eliza married Levi Buttram only two of James Bedwell's sons were enumerated in the census: James and Elijah Bedwell. However, Elijah was the only one who had a daughter in the correct age category to be this "El iza". Elijah Bedwell married Mary Seenea (Seney , Seancy, Seaner).
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