CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  William Booker Butler - Smith County, TX

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Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net
6 June 2002 
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson 

W. B. BUTLER.

William Booker Butler, of Tyler, is a native of Cham­bers county, 
Alabama, born April 23rd, 1838, and removed to Texas with his father, 
Booker Butler, who settled in Smith county near the town of 
Starrville, where Mr. Butler was reared and educated in the schools 
of that old town, known then as tne center of education for this 
part of the state. Enlisted early in 1862 in Capt. StilIwell's 
company, but soon afterwards detailed in the commissary department, 
and then detached to look after the plantation of his father, to 
fur­nish the Confederate army with supplies.  This duty was strictly 
performed and young Butler accomplished the work he was detailed in 
to the satisfaction of the Con`federacy. In December, 1860, he was 
married to Miss Mary S. Black, a daughter of Col. Shimmie Black, an 
early settler and large planter in East Texas.  From this marriage 
they have three children: Levi, a merchant at Starrville, James A., 
postmaster at Troupe, and Claud, a stock man at Lame, Whar­ton county. 
Mr. Butler is a large planter, his plantation being located near 
Browning, but his residence is now in Tyler.  He is a fine business 
man and bears a good reputa­tion as a citizen, and an earnest member 
of the Methodist church, South.