Butler #155 (A)

Right: Picuture taken in Jan

The

1984'

First Butler School on land from Edmund & Permelia Butler about . lz nile south of the crossroads' This lchool was purchased by John Garde in iggg anO moved to the old Garde lHomestead which is now owned by Jim

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Below: Pictured in 19876e-SeconO Butler School Wut.t PumP and School

Grounds.

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The well was near the Soutn East corner of the school house--hl;ii dus bY hand in "ut 1931 or 1934 bY Fred WeishauPt Henry Wieseman

Alfred

Leseman

Above: Picture taken in 1950' The Second Butler School we all t/z remember! It was about mile east of the crossroads on land from used F..O.ii.t Suhrenbrock. It was throuqh the school Year of 1951 ' Fire destroyed this building on

Sept. 22, 1960-

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Butier

School

Treasurers Office Worden,

Ill.
Nessel

Special meeting of Board of Trustees.

All

members

present, Larch,
,:.-

and Moritz.

Petition.to sell old school

house of

District No.2
Filed

(Known

as Butler School)

December 22nd 1887. 0n motion

of

Mr:

Moritz

seconded bY Nessel

it

was

carried to sell the old school the 22nd day of February 1888,

house on

for

cash

to the highest bidder:

Said

is a frame house about the size of 16 X 20 feet, and about 9 or 10 feet to

house

ceiling.
A motion

to adjorn carried January

1888

Dated

this

28th day

of

K Lorch

president

HRDorr-Clerk
Sold the Butler School House
Garde

to

John

for Sixteen Dollars (highest bid)

the same to credit of
No.2
1BB8

and placed

District
February

this

22nd day of

H.R. Dorr
Trea
s

urer

The above information was given based on information researched by Court House in Edwardsville-

to

Eugene Wieseman bY Frances Wiesbman Virginia Garde at the Madison County

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a Reuni'on " il[f'^ But1er School h-.-' As a gr. grandciaughter of Eclmund Butler, I am pleased to be able to represent talk about Butler lrls family at a reunion of Futler School ouplIs. I love to Faintty Genealogyl but I wonrt bore you rlth a 1ot of deiails.

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Butler and hj-s wifee Peruelia-Ann1 came to IL as newly weds from NC about lrO acre plot's /sr.l vrhen he was 26 years o1tl1 obtatneci lanci grants for bwo adJolning ln sections 16 and 21 ln ]835. That vras the year hLs father mrote hin a lottor verlfying that he was born l,by B t Ll}7--we st1I1 have that 150 year old tattered
Ednund

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Ielter wlth the fatherrs slgnature. The school house was located ln the north east corner of the land El\nund onned ln section 15. (flnancing for rural sctroots) The Butlors ha,.i 7 children--aI1 born 1n fL. $r grandfatherlHenry H.rfirst narried Lucy ann Weeksl dau of lancasterl but she dled younq--they only had two girls. One o1' bhen marrleC 1{111ie Bong} and lived' a fer mlles fron oId D Camp nine'
the'Lr Henryrs second marriage was with Mary ,Iane Pioerl my grandmotheramd among a'itleokschildren was rlv father 011ver Butler. Henrlrrs sisber, Ellza, also married
who was brc.df William noUe?irn but I know not'hing about that' family' ff sone of you to you' belong to the arry weeks fanily J would be very lnterested ln talking untll 1892--fprt'y vears Edmund died in }B53--rather young, but Pernelia llved -is-o LcL/

i:rnn{( the far:n, rrassed it on to hls "onr'irdg3rrseveral There are no <iescendants in the area bearing the Bubler name, but to their children--I femaLes of the line live 1n Staunton ancl have passed lt on
can

longer than her husband.

assume

that.lf

was c>l.i- *on- 1+a- E4.7av'' who sola lt to'?relsemansr present owners'

J;-ltU;'-t"* .ry aftershi'thatlouls l(leln acquired \

u

,u,

b-F*^t-f

think of only four

such family

groups.

However, JOO-IrOO of

the

descendants

are broadly scatterecl throughout southern I1 and the west more recent information ,Iuciy Klein sherfy has been veryr helpful in supplying breaklng a rulj about thls area so f.want to thank herr and to thank !-rances for
cas6 fotr of ,rprlpils and teachers mostlyrr ancl aLlowlng me bo Join you today' In south of the wonderl I ,,yas born and raleed in staunton and still live there Just school teacher' school, very close to the Klelns. Er the way, I am a retired f.lIol.se Blrd Binney

Eccher Helen Osborn and 2 nj'eces

Lorene Baker Jensen & daus '

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