(1) Name: Ichabod BUTLER
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Birth: 1793 Bourbon County, Ky.
Death: September 9, 1853 Pike County, Missouri Age: 60
Death Memo: Pike Co., MO. Ichabod Butler,died intestate Sept. 9, 1853, will book, 9, page 360, 1853. Only heir, daughter Susan Neal, his wife has died, prior to 1853
Father: William BUTLER (1756-1843)
Mother: Katrina Elizabeth JACOBY (1765-1810)

Misc. Notes
This is from Goldena Howard's book: History of Ralls Co. now out of print and hard to come by. A lady copied for me:

"Ichabod & Dudley Butler
The Butler family lived in Bourbon Co., KY. There was Ichabod, the eldest, Dudley, about 20 and their sister Amelia, 16; four half-brothers, the father and step-mother. Ichabod married and moved into another house.

Dudley hauled goods from one city to another, from an early age. John Liter was a neighbor. Liter and the 2 Butlers decided to move West. in 1824. Ichabod decided they could not leave their sister, but instead of discussing it with her father, he stole her away. He climbed in her upstairs window, filled a pillowcase with clothes, took her away behind him on his horse, to his own home. When they sorted the clothes, some of them belonged to the stepmother, so they left them behind.

The party consisted of Ichabod, his wife, their 6 yr. old daughter, Susan; Dudley, Amelia, and the John Liter family, which included a daughter Matilda, 18 or 19 yrs. old. They traveled by wagons, little Susan riding a horse all the way. The Butlers had intended to stop in IL where they had 2 sisters but they kept on and the whole party stopped at Spencersburg (MO).They stayed...2 yrs..

Dudley was tall and fair with blue eyes; Matilda was heavy set with dark hair and eyes; her parents were of German birth. Dudley courted her; after the marr. her father bought them 80 A. of land one and a half miles S. of Madisonville, where they built a home and stayed the rest of their lives. They had 9 children.

There was a log school at Madisonville, taught in turn by (various ones).

Children had to learn everything in the old blue-back speller before they could get a reader.

Amelia married a man named Bramblette and lived in IL; she came to visit Dudley in 1886 and died while there. A maiden lady, Miss Fannie Almond, lived with the Dudley Butler family. In those days single women found a family to live with, and helped with the work and became a part of the family.
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Susan Butler, dau. of Ichabod, mar. Wilburn Neal. Ichabod & his wife died in 1854, leaving Susan their estate; Susan & Wilburn lived on the Ichabod Butler palce for 63 yrs. before moving to Vandalia, Missouri. After his death, she lived North of Vandalia with a dau.. About 1888, Dudley Butler died; his wife and Miss Almond died soon afterwards. The old Dudley Butler Cemetery remains.

The Butler cemetery is near Madisonville in Ralls Co. MO and was on their home place. It has suffered some neglect in the past few years. Slaves were buried at Dudley's feet or outside the E. wall of the cemetery. It had a cement fence around it with an iron gate & was overgrown with big trees and poison ivy. Other Butler relatives were buried in the other parts of the cemetery and that portion was never cared for, even though some of the descendants lived fairly close by. There was a picture of Dudley & Matilda (Liter) Butler. He had the curliest hair you ever saw, looked like heavy sheep's wool on his head & light eyes. This was when it was white in later years, but a full head of hair. His son, John Henry Butler had straight hair and it thinned in later years, but also got white.


Spouses
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1: Susan LITER
Birth: 1796
Death: 1851 Pike County, Missouri Age: 55
Father: John LITER (-1840)
Mother: Susanna COONS
Children: Susan

(2) Name: Thomas Z. BUTLER
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Birth: circa 1830
Father: Francis M. BUTLER (1786-1838)
Mother: Rachel WHEAT (1806-1876)

Misc. Notes
Thomas was listed as head of a family on the 1850 Bourbon County census (District 2, page 37, #181). He resided in Texas in 1882. [1]


Sources
1. Alan Dorschug Genealogy, dated May 20, 1999.