Susan Ann Butler (maiden name: Evans) was born in 1826 in Chillicothe, Ohio. She married Dabney O. Butler on December 24, 1846. The couple had at least six children together: Elbridge, born around 1849; Charles, born around 1851; Walter, born around 1853; John, born around 1855; Samuel, born around 1860; Ellen, born around 1868.
After Dabney returned from the war to Chillicothe, the family lived out the rest of their days in Susan’s hometown. Both Dabney and Susan received pensions from the federal government. Dabney died around 1892 in Chillicothe, two years prior to Susan who died of diabetes at her home on March 20, 1894. Both are buried in the city’s Grandview Cemetery.
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Birth date: | 1826 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Birth place: | Chillicothe, OH | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pension Record for Dabney O. Butler, NARA, Washington, D.C.; “Dabney O. Butler,” Ohio, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1774-1993; 1860, 1870, 1880, Federal Census, accessed on Ancestry.com; “Death of Mrs. Susan A. Butler,” Chillicothe Gazette (Ohio), April 21, 1894; "Dabney O. Butler," Findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/166899356/dabney-o.-butler; Alice Cannon, "Dabney O. Butler," Email, April 19, 2021.