Natchitoches County Louisiana Archives News.....[Sarah Butillon Inheritance] March 1, 1873


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Ouachita Telegraph (Monroe, LA) March 1, 1873

     Sarah Butillon, a factory girl of New Hampshire, has had a fairy history.  
In a newspaper she accidentally saw the name of a Mr. Butillon, of Natchitoches 
who had taken part in some public demonstration.  The name being quite 
uncommon, Sarah wrote a modest letter of inquiry, giving her own genealogy, and 
suggesting that there might be some relationship.  In a fortnight came on an 
answer, cheerfully written, in which a distant relationship was demonst[r]
ated.  The Southerner added that he was old, without family and had few 
friends; and earnestly hoped for a continuation of the correspondence.  Agreed 
to, and kept up for three years; but her last letter remained unanswered for 
three months, when came a letter from Mr. Butillon's awyer, informing her that 
the dear old man had left her his whole property, amounting to over $400,000.  
Sarah, by-the-way, just before receiving the news, had married a young man of 
her own rank, and now they have gone down to Natchitoches to look after their 
assets. - Prairie Farmer.