Elizabeth Menzies (maiden name: Elizabeth Jane Butler) was born in Kentucky sometime in the early 1820s to Richard P. Butler and Paulina Randall. Her father was an assistant adjutant general during the War of 1812 and a farmer in Carroll County, Kentucky. Elizabeth married lawyer John W. Menzies on May 24, 1848, and the family settled in Covington. She contracted a “dangerous illness” while on a visit to her parents in the summer of 1850, and she died in early July. She was buried in the Butler family’s private cemetery in Carrollton.
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1840 United States Federal Census; “Kentucky, County Marriages, 1783-1965,” accessed on Ancestry.com; John C. Linehan, “Irish Pioneers and Builders of Kentucky,” The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, vol. 3, ed. Thomas Hamilton Murray (Boston: American-Irish Historical Society, 1900), 84; The Covington Journal, July 6, 1850; “Elizabeth Jane Butler Menzies,” Findagrave.com (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22723362/elizabeth-jane-menzies).
