Obituary: Dr. S. L. Butler, July 18, 1898 - Smith County, TX Contributed by Vicki Betts 10 January 2003 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************************** TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, August 18, 1898, p. 14, c. 1 BUTLER.—Dr. S. L. Butler was born in Harrougate, Ala., April 13, 1851. He came to Texas with his father at the age of ten years. He graduated at Tulane University in 1874, and began the practice of medicine in White House in the fall of 1874; was married to Miss Lucy Lee, December 10, 1874; moved to Bullard in 1889, and practiced there one year, after which he moved to Omen, where he lived until he moved to Troupe in 1892, and died July 18, 1898. He leaves a wife and six children, one brother and one sister and a host of friends to mourn his departure. A good man is gone. He gave God his heart in 1874. He stood by his preacher and Church. He often expressed himself during his illness in language like this: "My soul is growing fat in the Lord." The Church has lost a good member, the community a good man and physician and citizen, the family a kind father and husband, but we will look up. He is not gone forever. We will see him again. He awaits us over the river. S. N. ALLEN, P. C