{"id":474,"date":"2017-12-13T15:55:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T15:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/?page_id=474"},"modified":"2021-09-05T17:13:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T17:13:07","slug":"ancestor-31-martha-butler","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/?page_id=474","title":{"rendered":"Ancestor 31 Martha Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Martha &#8220;Mattie&#8221; Elizabeth Ann Butler was born in October 1843, her father, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/?page_id=564\">Powell<\/a>, was 42, and her mother, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/?page_id=569\">Derecy nee McCormick<\/a>, was 31.\u00a0 Some record indicate she was born in Summers County but her death record says she was born in Bedford County, Virginia.\u00a0 Bedford County is very likely because her mother, Derecy, had family from there.<\/p>\n<p>She married <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/?page_id=469\">John Allen H R J S Williams<\/a> on December 26, 1865, in Mercer, West Virginia.\u00a0 They had eight children in 14 years.<\/p>\n<p>The year 1881 was bad for this family.\u00a0 Their daughter Julia died January 7, 1881, Mary died November 10, 1881,\u00a0 and Rebecca died sometime after the 1880 census. Martha died on October 14, 1881, of &#8216;fever&#8217; in Pipestem, West Virginia, at the age of 38.\u00a0 Her burial location is in Williams Cemetery in a remote location off of Butterfly Lane in Summers County, West Virginia along with her husband and some of their children.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainContent\">\n<div class=\"page\">\n<div class=\"ancGrid full768\">\n<div class=\"article ancCol w66\">\n<section class=\"con\">\n<div class=\"conBody\">\n<div id=\"recordData\" class=\"ancCol w66 full480\">\n<table class=\"table tableHorizontal tableHorizontalRuled\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Name:<\/th>\n<td><span class=\"srchHit\">Martha E. A. Williams<br \/>\n<span title=\"Click to see details about alternate names\"><a>[<span title=\"This value was member-submitted. Click to see details.\">Martha Elizabeth Ann Butler<\/span>]\u00a0<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span title=\"Alternate name for this record\">[Martha E. A. Powell]\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Birth Date:<\/th>\n<td>abt 1843<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Birth Place:<\/th>\n<td>Bedford<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Death Date:<\/th>\n<td>14 Oct 1881<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Death Place:<\/th>\n<td>Summers County, West Virginia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Death Age:<\/th>\n<td>38<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Occupation:<\/th>\n<td>Housekeeper<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Race:<\/th>\n<td>White<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Marital Status:<\/th>\n<td>Married<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Gender:<\/th>\n<td>Female<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Father Name:<\/th>\n<td>Powell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Mother Name:<\/th>\n<td>Butler<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Spouse Name:<\/th>\n<td>John A. Williams<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>FHL Film Number:<\/th>\n<td>589344<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Martha &#8220;Mattie&#8221; Elizabeth Ann Butler was born in October 1843, her father, Powell, was 42, and her mother, Derecy nee McCormick, was 31.\u00a0 Some record indicate she was born in Summers County but her death record says she was born in Bedford County, Virginia.\u00a0 Bedford County is very likely because her mother, Derecy, had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/?page_id=474\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ancestor 31 Martha Butler<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-474","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/474\/revisions\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}