Virgie Americus BUTLER (8 JAN 1862 - 27 OCT 1944)

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Virgie Americus BUTLER

8 JAN 1862 - 27 OCT 1944

Known as: Virgie Butler

aka: Armanda V. BUTLER

aka: Manda V. BUTLER

aka: Manda Virginia BUTLER

BORN: 8 JAN 1862, Tuscumbia, Franklin Co. AL (now Colbert Co. AL)
DIED: 27 OCT 1944, Memphis, Shelby Co. TN ^[239]
CENSUS: 1880, Dwelling 303, District 1, Decatur Co. TN
CENSUS: 1900, Dwelling 123, District 14, Henderson Co. TN
CENSUS: 1910, Dwelling 87, District 10, Decatur Co. TN
CENSUS: 1930, Dwelling 62, District 4, Shelby Co. TN
BURIED: 28 OCT 1944, Memorial Park Cemetery, Shelby Co. TN

Father: James M. BUTLER

Mother: Amanda BISHOP

Notes

Virgie Americus Butler was born in 1862 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Virgie was the youngest child of James M. Butler and Amanda Bishop. She moved with the family to Decatur Co. TN around 1870.

In 1890, Virgie married the Methodist minister, Nicholas Rowan Marr. The marriage ceremony was conducted by her half brother Billy Butler, who was also a Methodist minister.

Rowan and Virgie had three children - Ernest Butler Marr, Virginia Butler Marr, and Welborn Mooney Marr. Ernest died at two; Virginia and Welborn lived to adulthood.

Rowan died in 1895 and is buried at the Hebron Cemetery in Carroll Co. TN. Virgie did not remarry but moved to Memphis and lived with her son, Welborn until her death in 1944.

In the 1930 census, Virgie Marr is living in the Welborn Marr household.

Source: Dorothy Marr Roberson; Decatur Co. TN marriage records; 1880 census, Decatur Co. TN; 1930 census, Shelby Co. TN; Shelby Co. death index.

Family

Husband: Nicholas Rowan MARR

MARRIED: 20 APR 1890, Decatur Co. TN ^[3423]

Children:

Pedigree

                                                                            _Zachariah BUTLER ___+
                                                                           | (1736 - 1792)       
                                                      _James BUTLER _______|_Sarah (Sally) BOWE _
                                                     | (1758 - 1841)         (.... - 1770)       
                       _Christopher Columbus BUTLER _|
                      | (1786 - 1850) m 1809         |
                      |                              |                      _____________________
                      |                              |                     |                     
                      |                              |_Sally ? ____________|_____________________
                      |                                                                          
 _James M. BUTLER ____|
| (1813 - 1891) m 1854|
|                     |                                                     _____________________
|                     |                                                    |                     
|                     |                               _____________________|_____________________
|                     |                              |                                           
|                     |_Mahala COLE _________________|
|                       (1792 - 1860) m 1809         |
|                                                    |                      _____________________
|                                                    |                     |                     
|                                                    |_____________________|_____________________
|                                                                                                
|
|--Virgie Americus BUTLER 
|  (1862 - 1944)
|                                                                           _____________________
|                                                                          |                     
|                                                     _____________________|_____________________
|                                                    |                                           
|                      ______________________________|
|                     |                              |
|                     |                              |                      _____________________
|                     |                              |                     |                     
|                     |                              |_____________________|_____________________
|                     |                                                                          
|_Amanda BISHOP ______|
  (1828 - 1900) m 1854|
                      |                                                     _____________________
                      |                                                    |                     
                      |                               _____________________|_____________________
                      |                              |                                           
                      |______________________________|
                                                     |
                                                     |                      _____________________
                                                     |                     |                     
                                                     |_____________________|_____________________

Source references

[239] Memphis Shelby Co. Death Index

[3423] Early Marriage Records (1869-1921) of Decatur County, Tennessee

AUTHOR: Fred and Margie Alexander

REFERENCE: 61
DATA:Wm W. Butler, M. G.