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Butterfield, John Hawks

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Last Name Butterfield
First Name John
Middle Name Hawks
Maiden Name
Death Date 10/5/1865
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Cemetery Old Butterfield Cemetery, Ray Twp., Morgan Co., Ind.
Family Information
Spouse 1)Joanna Atwood; 2)Mary R. Cobb; 3)Amanda H. Thacker
Survived By Wife, Amanda; sons, Velorus, John H., Merrano, Luke G. and Seymour A.; daughters, Freelove and Joanna.
Other Age 85 years, 5 months, and 5 days. Born in Jaffrey, N.H. in 1780. Married the mother of all his children in Bennington Co., Vermont in 1804, then settled in Jefferson Co., N.Y. Served in the 76th Regiment of New York in the War of 1812. Moved from near Buffalo, N.Y. to Connersville, Ind. in 1819, along with the Benjamin Barnes family, across the Whetzel trace to the Bluffs at Waverly. Father of 7 sons and 2 daughters. Sons William Sanders and Oliver died young. First wife died in 1834; he then married second wife, Mary Remmington Cobb of Vermont. Mary died in 1859, and he married Amanda Holman Thacker on July 5, 1859.
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