Wilson Macdaniel "Mack" BUTTRAM
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WILSON was admitted to the North Alabama Methodist Confer e n ce in November 1912. He began his ministry in Winsto n Co un ty, Alabama and served for fifty years in churche s all o ve r North Alabama.
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MARY was a talented, educated lady who imparted her lo v e o f nature and artistic ability to all of her children.
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Died in childhood at age two.
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BENJAMIN was killed in the Battle of Chattanooga. His fa t h er-in-law raised his and Nancy's children. After the B attle at Shiloh, April 6, 1862, the Confedera t e Army retr eated, first to Corinth, then to central Missi ss ippi. Th e Federal Army moved up to Corinth about the sa m e time . A Detachment of the Federal Army, under the comm an d o f General Ormsby Mitchell, was sent over to occupy No r t h Alabama. Gen. Mitchell's Headquarters was at Athens , A lab ama. President Lincoln was aware that there wa s a pocket of Uni o n Sympathy in the hill country of Nort h Alabama. He inst ru cted General Mitchell to make the mo st of this situatio n . This area, later became known as " The Free State of Wi ns ton'. People who were unwilling t o fight for the Confed era te cause begain to move into thi s area. This becam e a prob lem for the Confederates, an d President Jefferso n Davis iss ued an order to 'shoot the se people on sight'. General Mitchell's troops had no orga nized opposition in t h is area, and they ranged over a wid e area. I believe th a t some of these troops camped in th e "Yankee Patch". I t hi nk they were there for some time , and these are the 'Blu e C oats' who went to the Jones ho me and demanded somethin g t o eat. When it was set befor e them they said that the y wou ld not eat that kind of foo d, and fed it to the dogs , and r ode away. I also believ e one of these Union Soldie rs was i n the Friendship Commu nity and came under the fir e of Wilbu rn Rodgers squirre l gun. In his hasty retreat , he lost hi s hat, and Wilbur n gained a Trophy. The day after the Battle of Chattanooga , an Ohio soldier w a s on the battlefield, and came on th e unburied body o f a de ad Confederate, and he wrote: ' He was not over 15 years of age, and very slender in si z e . He was clothed in a cotton suit, and was barefooted-- b a refooted on that cold and wet 24th of November. I exam i ne d his haversack. For the days ration there was a hand fu l l of black beans, a few pieces of sorghum and a half d oz e n roasted acorns. That was an infinitely poor outfi t fo r m arching and fighting, but that Tennessee Confedera te ha d ma de it answer his purpose'. Benjamin S. Crowel l died on the same battlefield. I do n o t know who checke d his haversack, but his father-in-law , Ha rmon Butram, ra ised his orphaned child for him. Harmon Butram probably sa w smoke from Gen. Sherman's advan c ing army. His family h ad been shattered, a son and son-i n- law dead, and two oth er sons already in Alabama. There i s l ittle doubt that h e had lost whatever he had, and was n eve r satisfied tha t the war was necessary in the first pla ce. He decided h e would take his family, with its orphans an d w idows, t o Alabama and start over. He was forty seven y ear s old w hen he left Georgia to come to Alabama.Source #19
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RICHARD was a fisherman and bow hunter (his favori t e a 6 ' bow made from the heart of a Bois d'Arc tree) , a co wboy i n Big Bend country also hunting outlaws and I ndian s at vari ous times, rode with the Texas Rangers (bu t neve r joined) , and worked 7 years on the Katy Railroa d which r uns from F t. Worth to Big Springs. Richard me t and marrie d Martha Vi ola Turner after she waved at th e train. The n ew family se ttled on a farm near Ector, Te xas and then fo r a year nea r Anadarko, Oklahoma in 1905 . After that yea r they moved i nto Anadarko where Richar d served as Stree t Commissioner . In 1914, until his deat h in 1926, Richar d was employed b y the University of Okla homa, as a caretak er for the Admini stration Building, i n Norman, Oklahoma. S ource #22
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MARTHA, who was alway called Viola or Ola, at age 5 mov e d b y wagon with her family from Birmingham, Alabama to E ct or , Texas area. There she met Richard Lee Nelms, who w a s a r ailroad engineer and had ridden with the Texas Rang er s, an d they settled on a farm near Ector. After her hu sba nd's d eath in 1926, Martha made a living as a seamstre ss a nd taki ng in student room and boarders in Norman, Okl ahoma . Sourc e #22
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DIXIE died at age 6 of an unknown disease, "slowly strang l e d to death". Her father refused an autopsy and the chi l d w as secretly buried without a marker in Carson Cemeter y , Ect or, Texas. Source #22
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LEAH was a 6 months baby and only survived 5 or 6 weeks.