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THE BUTTS FAMILY

    Simmons Butts emigrated from Virginia about 1808 and settled in Hancock
County near Buckhead. He had three children: Arthur I., Kezzie, and Emond. At
his death his brother, James Irwin, married his widow and they had two children:
Fannie Butts and Nettie Butts. When she died, James I. Butts married Soletta
Binion. Of this union, there were six children: James Wallace Butts, Laura
Butts, Kezzie Butts, Ellen Butts, Bertha Butts, Thomas H., and David L. Butts.

    Arthur Irwin Butts married Georgia Thomas and they had three children:
Simmons Butts, Mary Elizabeth Butts, and Katherine Butts.

    James Wallace Butts married Mary Elizabeth Butts and they had three
children: Arthur Irwin II., James Wallace II., and David Thomas.

    Arthur Irwin II. Married Susie Book and had seven children: Arthur I. HI.,
Katherine, Carold, Julia, Susie, William, and Mattie Belle.

    James Wallace Butts, II, married Anna Lou Hutchens, and of this marriage
there was only one off-spring: James Wallace III. Anna Lou died and James
married Anne Belle Russell, and they have one child: Annie Ruth Butts.

    David Thomas Butts married Laura Belle Prosser. Of this union there are two
children.

    Arthur I. Butts, I., was born in Lebanon County Virginia, Feb. 3, 1808, and
was brought to Georgia when only a few months old. When he was only eight years
old he carried mail on horseback from Milledgeville to Buckhead in Hancock
county, a distance of about eight miles. He afterwards moved to Alabama, and
settled among the Indians near Montgomery. He had an agreement with an old
Indian chief that they would warn each other if there was any trouble. The
Indian chief warned Arthur Butts that the Indians were going to make an attack
on the "Pale Faces."

    He put his wife and baby, of a few months of age, on a horse and he, on
foot, and they made their way back to Georgia. They forded the Chattahoochee
river at Columbus just in time to escape a massacre. He settled in the eastern
part of Baldwin county.

    He served two terms from this county as representative to the Legislature.
When Sherman came through Milledgeville, the important state papers together
with the State Seal were placed in a chest and sent to Arthur I. Butts
residence, and he hid them until danger was passed, thus making his home the
capitol for a time. Edward Butts, brother of Arthur I. Butts, was residing in
Hancock County and as he was too old to go to the war in 1861, Col. McAdoo,
father of William G. McAdoo, placed his family in the care of Edward Butts while
he was away. As a result of this request, Edward Butts attempted to cross the
Oconee river with supplies for the McAdoo family. His bateau was capsized and he
was drowned near Fraley's Ferry. He left one son, Edward E. Butts, who still
survives.

    James Wallace Butts, son of James I. Butts, married Mary Elizabeth Butts
after the war. "James Wallace Butts was one of the unselfish patriots who
responded to the call of his country and enlisted as a private in the Baldwin
Blues; was elected Second Lieutenant, afterwards promoted to First Lieutenant,
and subsequently, Captain. At Chancellorsville he lost a hand, and in 1864, lost
a leg, and fell into the hands of the enemy near Washington City. He was kept in
prison until near the close of the war, when an exchange of prisoners was
arranged, but he did not reach home until after the surrender. He returned to
his home in Baldwin county where he practiced medicine until his death in 1891.
He was a splendid soldier, brave to recklessness, devoted to a cause, a hero in
deed and in truth." From the History of Doles Brigade.

    He has surviving him three sons and eleven grandchildren. Simmons Butts, son
of A. I. Butts, joined the Governor's Horse Guards, but was taken sick on his
way to Virginia, and died before he reached the front. Two children still
survive him; Randolph Butts and Mrs. Fannie Harold.



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Part V

HISTORY of BALDWIN COUNTY GEORGIA
BY MRS. ANNA MARIA GREEN COOK

ILLUSTRATED
ANDERSON. S. C.
Keys-Hearn Printing Co.
-1925—

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