Biography of EDMOND G. BUTLER, Logan Co, AR

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Submitted by:  Delaine Edwards <delaine@ipa.net>
        Date:  29 Jun 1999
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SOURCE: Biographical & Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago and Nashville, 1891.
Logan County

	EDMOND G. BUTLER, planter and nurseryman, Paris, Ark. Mr.
Butler was born on July 21, 1839, in Tennessee, and is the son
of Henry T. and Frances (Webb) Butler, the former a native of
Virginia and the latter of North Carolina. The parents were
married in Georgia, and to this union were born eleven children -
five sons and six daughters - four of whom are now living: Martha
(wife of Robert Taylor), Tabitha, William H., and Edmond G., who
is the youngest. The father died in Tennessee in 1845, and the
mother died in 1871. Both were members of the Baptist Church.
Edmond G. Butler was reared in his native State and in 1864 was
united in marriage to Miss Diana Sturdivant, who was also from
Tennessee, her birth occurring in that State in 1842. Her parents,
Jesse and Elizabeth (Smith) Sturdivant, were natives of North
Carolina and Georgia, respectively. The father is now living in
Paris, Logan County, Ark., but the mother died a number of years
ago. To Mr. and Mrs. Butler were born fourteen children - six
sons and eight daughters - seven now living: Johanna (wife of
S.R. Rodgers), Alice (wife of J.D. Hays), Francis, Eunice, Donna,
Albert and Jesse. Those deceased were Thomas, Joseph, Edmond,
Laura, Cleveland, Ruth, and one died in infancy. Mr. Butler was
a soldier in the late war, enlisting in Company H, Twenty-seventh
Regiment Infantry in 1861, and serving until 1864. He was taken
prisoner at the battle of Shiloh, retained in St. Louis for three
months, and was then permitted to go home. He never returned to
the army. After the war he followed farming until 1865, when he
embarked in the nursery business. He moved from Tennessee to
Arkansas, and in 1872 settled in Lawrence County, where he remained
until 1873, at which date he came to Logan County, farming until
1885. He moved to Short Mountain in December, 1886, and continued
the nursery business, and has nine and one-half acres in all kinds
of fruit. He is the owner of 460 acres of good land, and has 280
acres of this under cultivation. He has been school director six
years. Mrs. Butler is a member of the Christian Church.