Life History

Notes

• homas Ethelbert Butler
  Birth 2 Mar 1875 in Ethel, Arkansas Co., Arkansas
  Death 9 Nov 1877 in Arkansas Co., Arkansas
  Burial Mt. Pleasant Cem, Ethel, Arkansas Co., Arkansas
  Father John Benjamin Butler b: 27 May 1829 in Giles Co., Tennessee
  Mother Malissa Edward Davidson b: 15 Nov 1846 in Alabama
  --  David Lee, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dlee-pobox&id=I115
  
  I have generally found David Lee's reconstructions to be correct and reliable.  However, he provides no documentation or commentary on most individuals and facts.  I have photos of graves in the Mt Pleasant Cemetery, taken by my wife, Edith McSwain Jenkins.  This includes the Butlers.  I thought this included all the Butlers, but I have no photo of a grave in the name of Thomas E.
  
  I have found no public documentation of Ethelbert as a middle name for this Thomas E.  An earlier Thomas Ethelbert Butler, cousin of this Thomas Ethelbert, was born June 1850 (and reported in some documents and family genealogies as born in 1872).  Theolder cousins was named after his maternal grandfather Ethelbert Abernathy.  Perhaps the second Thomas Ethelbert, boin in 1875, was named "symapathetically" after the same person.  I have found no other family name Ethelbert in the background of the second Thomas E Butler, born 1875.
  
  Gravestones of Mt Pleasant Cemetery
  Thomas Ethelbert Butler  Mar 2, 1875  Nov 9, 1877
  Mt Pleasant Cemetery, Ethel, Arkansas County, Arkansas
  Photo by Orville Boyd Jenkins 13 May 2017

Sources

• 1. Gravestones of Mt Pleasant Cemetery
• 2. RootsWeb Trees
• 3. Ancestry Messaging