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From: Marian Dunlap <>
Subject: Re: INDECATU-D Digest V00 #23
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 12:46:31 -0500


Alicia:
I have seen the record of the William Butcher-Sarah Love marriage
but I know nothing more about it, or the the later William you mention.
My GGGrandfather was another William Butcher who is in the 1840 and
1850 census in Fugit Tp, Decatur Co IN. In 1850 he is listed in Fugit
Tp. dwelling #79 family #89--William Butcher 72 farmer b. VA.
Margaret 19 b IN; Catherine 17 b IN; William 16 b IN; Jane 9 b IN. In
1840 there are more older children listed, and I believe from marriage
records there were two older daughters and a son Moses. From the Jane
age 9 it would appear that the mother died after the 1840 census.
The Margaret is my GGrandmother who married James Harvey Ray in
Decatur Co in 1851; they homesteaded in Bourbon Co KS. Margaret's death
certificate states her mother was Christena Hildebrand, but I have not
proved this. The nearest I have come was to find a marriage in
Switzerland Co IN for a William Butcher and Christena Abernathy, so a
marriage to William Butcher could have been a second marriage for
Christena. In later years there was a court order in Decatur Co
approving some money to a William Butcher for the care of Phoebe
Abernathy--but we have no way of knowing which William Butcher this
pertained to.
Catherine married George Miller; the younger William married (1)
Lucy Tingle and (2) Polly Ryan. Census records in 1880 in Champaign Co
IL show their children born in Indiana, Kansas, and Illinois. They left
IL in the late 1880's and only recently I have found a trace of them in
southern Missouri.
The Jane in the 1850 census is Eliza Jane Butcher who married (1)
Samuel D. Ray [younger brother of my GGGrandfather James H. Ray]. He
and his brother Francis both died as a result of a fall while helping to
re-roof the Kingston Presbyterian Church. Eliza Jane went to Kansas
where she married (2) Wm. M. Holcomb in 1859. She returned to Decatur
Co IN and in 1864 filed for divorce from Holcomb charging desertion,
adultery and bigamy. The divorce was granted!
Eliza Jane married (3) Philip Havice [brother of my GGrandfather Abram
Havice].
In the 1850 census there was another William Butcher family listed
in Clinton Tp in Decatur Co. I believe he was a part of the George
Butcher family also in Decatur Co. The 1850 census lists this William
Butcher 47 farmer b VA; Ladona 39 b KY; Geo. W. 19 [the rest of the
children all born in IN] Wm. G. 17; Saul G.15; David M. 13; Martha J.
Brown 11; John B. Butcher 7; Abram P 5; Sarah S 3; and James H. 1. At
this time we have found no connection between the George Butcher family
and my William Butcher in Fugit Tp.
The William G. Butcher 17 listed here later married Deborah Jane Ray
(younger sister of my GGrandfather James H. Ray). She is listed in the
1860 Mortality Schedule and died of ague. However in the 1860 census we
find William Butcher (spelled Bucher here) 23, a day laborer, b IN. no
wife listed but children Samuel C. age 5 and Hannah age 3. We have
believed this was probably Deborah's family as she had a brother Samuel
and a sister Hannah.
I am afraid this is not much help for your William Butcher question.

Marian

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