My great grandmother, Alice Cleo Godwin Morrow, is not buried in Butters Cemetery. On my great great grandfather, Rev. William Daniel Godwin's headstone, the names of his children (one of whom was Alice C. Godwin) were inscribed, but they are not buried in Butters Cemetery. Alice C. Godwin Morrow is buried in Newlin Cemetery, 2 miles north of Singer, Louisiana.
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Her obituary follows:
"Morrow – Mrs. Alice C. Morrow was born April 30, 1849 and died June 8 1919. She was the eldest child of Rev. and Mrs. W. D. Godwin. She spent her early childhood with her parents in Big Cane, Louisiana. Later her parents made their home in Rapides Parish.

This beautiful home during the Civil War stood with its doors open to stricken widows, orphans, and any needy person.

Later she married Mr. Edwin E. Morrow and they returned to Big Cane where they lived a happy and prosperous life until his death. Seven children were born to them.

The Morrow home was known for and open for its generous hospitality. Mrs. Morrow would take in the homeless and made sure they did not come in vain to ask for help. Her more fortunate friends, called her to their bedside because she was a splendid nurse, and her smiling presence cheered all. Then at any time of night the writer has seen her leave her bed and go to the relief of some poor sick or dying colored person on her plantation who had sent for her.

Mrs. Morrow was a woman full of energy and additionally, she had good judgment. She believed in education and progress and was ever striving for the advancement of any community in which she lived.

For the past four or five years she had lived with her children, making her home for most of the time with her youngest daughter, Mrs. K. Toler.

Her health for some months before her death had not been very good so she went to visit her daughter, Eva Gill of Ruston, trusting that in that healthful town she would soon be well again. Her health seemed to improve while there and her doctors thought that she would soon be strong again.

On Saturday night after she had been at her daughter's a little more than a week she was very cheerful and was counting on her children from Shreveport spending the next day with her but the next morning at six o'clock without a struggle and with a smile on her face she fell asleep in the arms of Jesus.

Accompanied by four of her children other members of the family and friends her body was taken to Singer, the beautiful graveyard of her choice and laid lovingly away on June 9th, 1919.

She leaves to mourn her loss six children, one brother, and many more relatives and a host of friends.

A beautiful spirit has flown,
To the God who loaned her to us,
And she said "I'm ready to go,
For in Heaven I've placed my trust."

For she had cheerfully fought life's battles,
No complaining slacker was she –
She lovingly and unselfishly had lived
‘Till she knelt at our Father's knee."
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This is an old photograph of Alice Cleo Godwin Morrow (b: 30 April 1849 in LA d: 8 June 1919). She was the wife of Edwin Morrow (b: 16 September 1846 d: 15 October 1890). She married Edwin Morrow on 28 December 1871.

The parents of Alice Cleo Godwin Morrow (1849-1919) were Mary Ann Elliott Godwin (born: 14 June 1826 in Rapides Parish, LA died: 14 August 1890 in Rapides Parish, LA) and Reverend William Daniel Godwin (b: 1824 in LA d: 30 Dec 1907 in Rapides Parish, LA). Mary Ann Elliott Godwin and Rev. William Daniel Godwin married on 4 November 1847.

The parents of Mary Ann Elliott Godwin were William David Elliott (b: 1 February 1795 in Warren Co, GA. d: 30 January 1865 in Rapides Parish, LA) and Elizabeth Andrews (b: 17 August 1800 in Connecticut d: 17 August 1866 in Rapides Parish, LA). William David Elliott (1795-1865) fought in the War of 1812 and was at The Battle of New Orleans with General Andrew Jackson.

William David Elliott's parents were Thomas Elliott (b: 1761 in Virginia d: 1805 in "West Florida" in the present-day East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, area) and Elizabeth Mayers. Thomas Elliott (1761-1805) was an officer in the Revolutionary War, and he was an aide-de-camp to General Francis Marion ("The Swamp Fox").

Alice C. Godwin Morrow was the great granddaughter of Revolutionary War Officer, Thomas Elliott (1761-1805).

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