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Velorus Butterfield

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Velorus Butterfield

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Nov 1893 (aged 88)
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Centerton, Morgan County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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Last Name: Butterfield
First Name: Velorus
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Date of Death: 11/07/1893
Birth Date: 01/12/1805
Spouse: 1) Clarissa Badgley; 2) Martha S. Laughlin
Survived By: Wife, Martha; 4 sons; 4 daughters.
Other: Age 88. "Born in Ohio; with his father's family, immigrated to Indiana in 1819, settling in the territory composing Morgan County in 1821...has lived most of his life on his farm in Clay Township...still a hale, hearty, vigorous man at the age of seventy years." -- Martinsville Republican, Sept. 7, 1876 "Velorus Butterfield, son of John H. [John Hawks and Joanna Atwood] Butterfield, was born Feb. 7, 1805 in Vermont, and removed with his parents to Morgan County in 1817. He lived near Brooklyn for 79 years. He died Nov. 1, 1893." Married Clarissa Badgley, daughter of Benjamin Badgley of Green Township, on May 1, 1828, in Morgan Co., Ind. They had 14 children together, six of whom have died. Wife died July 27, 1876. He married his second wife, Martha S. Laughlin, a widow, on Sept. 6, 1877. Was listed as a legal voter in Clay Twp. in 1833; was one of the boat pilots on the White River. "His honesty and integrity were unquestionable."
Cemetery: Old Butterfield Cemetery, Clay Twp., Morgan Co., Ind.
Obituary Source: Martinsville Republican, Nov. 9, 1893
Source Information: Cemetery index
Last Name: Butterfield
First Name: Velorus
Middle Name/Initial:
Maiden Name:
Date of Death: 11/07/1893
Birth Date: 01/12/1805
Spouse: 1) Clarissa Badgley; 2) Martha S. Laughlin
Survived By: Wife, Martha; 4 sons; 4 daughters.
Other: Age 88. "Born in Ohio; with his father's family, immigrated to Indiana in 1819, settling in the territory composing Morgan County in 1821...has lived most of his life on his farm in Clay Township...still a hale, hearty, vigorous man at the age of seventy years." -- Martinsville Republican, Sept. 7, 1876 "Velorus Butterfield, son of John H. [John Hawks and Joanna Atwood] Butterfield, was born Feb. 7, 1805 in Vermont, and removed with his parents to Morgan County in 1817. He lived near Brooklyn for 79 years. He died Nov. 1, 1893." Married Clarissa Badgley, daughter of Benjamin Badgley of Green Township, on May 1, 1828, in Morgan Co., Ind. They had 14 children together, six of whom have died. Wife died July 27, 1876. He married his second wife, Martha S. Laughlin, a widow, on Sept. 6, 1877. Was listed as a legal voter in Clay Twp. in 1833; was one of the boat pilots on the White River. "His honesty and integrity were unquestionable."
Cemetery: Old Butterfield Cemetery, Clay Twp., Morgan Co., Ind.
Obituary Source: Martinsville Republican, Nov. 9, 1893
Source Information: Cemetery index

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