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John Lowe Butler


Birth8 April 1808Simpson County, Kentucky, United States
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     Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for John Lowe Butler (1808-1860), memorial #11071784.

    Devery Scott Anderson, The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 2005), p. 41; citing the Nauvoo diary of William Clayton, kept for Heber C. Kimball.

    William G. Hartley, My best for the kingdom: history and autobiography of John Lowe Butler, a Mormon frontiersman (Salt Lake City, UT: Aspen Books, 1993), p. 2.

    Camp of Israel schedules and reports, 1845-1849 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Church History Library), entry for John L. Butler, folder "First 100, schedules, 1847 December-1848" (#60), image 4, line 12.
Death10 April 1860Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah Territory, United States
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BurialApril 1860Spanish Fork City Cemetery, Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah Territory, United States
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FatherJames Butler
MotherCharity Lowe
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   • Caroline Farozine Skeen
Married29 January 1831Sumner County, Tennessee, United States
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    Tennessee County Clerks, Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002 (Nashville, TN: Tennessee State Library and Archives), John L. Butler and Caroline Skeen (29 January 1831).
          Children:
               Kenion Taylor Butler
               William Alexander Butler
               Charity Artemesia Butler
               Keziah Jane Butler
               Phoebe Melinda Butler
               Caroline Elizabeth Butler
               Sarah Adaline Butler
               John Lowe Butler Jr
               James Butler
               Lucy Ann Butler
               Thomas Butler
               Alveretta Farozina Butler


   • Charity Skeen
Married23 December 1844Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), PID:M41G-QYY.

    George D. Smith, Nauvoo Polygamy (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2011), p. 581.

   • Sarah Lancaster
Married3 February 1846Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    George D. Smith, Nauvoo Polygamy (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2011), p. 581.

    Lisle G. Brown, Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2006), p. 45.

   • Sarah Bryant
Married6 February 1846Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    George D. Smith, Nauvoo Polygamy (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2011), p. 581.

    Lisle G. Brown, Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2006), p. 45.

   • Henrietta Seaten Blythe
Married8 September 1857Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for John Lowe Butler, ID KWJC-HXZ, accessed 1 Decmeber 2016.
          Children:
               Isabella Elizabeth Butler
               John William Butler


   • Esther Emily Ogden
Married9 March 1857Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), PID:KWJC-HXZ.

   • Mary Ann Hughes
Married9 March 1857Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for John Lowe Butler and Mary Ann Hughes, ID: KWJC-HXZ and ID: KWJ7-NCK.

   • Lovisa Hamilton
Married9 March 1857Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for John Lowe Butler and Lovisa Hamilton, ID: KWJC-HXZ​ and ID: KWJL-1FF.
          Children:
               Lovisa Patience Butler

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• 1808Simpson County, Kentucky, United States
• 1840Hancock County, Illinois, United States
• 1841Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
• 1850Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States
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     John Lowe Butler, John Lowe Butler autobiographies, 1957-1970
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• 1840 Population CensusHancock County, IllinoisExtractImage
• 1842 Population CensusNauvoo, Hancock, IllinoisExtractImage
• 1850 Population Censusthe District No 21, Pottawattamie, IowaExtractImage
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Crossing the Plains

• Eli B. Kelsey CompanyView Source
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    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pioneer Overland Travel" (Salt Lake City, UT: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
       Departure4 Jul 1852
       Arrival14-16 Oct 1852

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