Jackie's post was intended as a caption to this photo!
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
History Entry #2
The following is information on Frank Butler, and wife Jennie (Burnup), gleaned from Carol Butler writings of 1990.
Francis (Frank) Butler III: born Jan 24, 1876, Sutton Flats, Quebec, Canada; eldest of twelve children of Francis Butler II and Mary Ann York. Moved to Deseronto, Ontario, at 20 years old.
While living in Deseronto, ten siblings were born. They were neighbors with the Burnup family of Frank III's future wife Jennie, who was born Nov. 22, 1884, also in Deseronto. Her family moved to Watertown, NY about 1887. Jennie had seven older siblings, and attended Meade St. school in Watertown, as did her offspring.
About 1897, the Frank Butler family also moved to Watertown, once again neighbors of the Burnups.
Frank and Jennie were married March 21, 1901, later parenting eight children: George, Anne, William, Florence, Emma, Robert, Nelson (died of diphtheria at 4 years), and Naomi.
Frank and Jennie became naturalized U.S. citizens Nov. 16, 1918.
Frank worked many years in the paper manufacturing mills around Watertown.
During WW II, they moved to Syracuse, NY, where Frank worked at Brown-Lite Chapin, then as sextant at Brown Memorial Church, near their apartment on Grand Ave, and retired at 95 years old.
Jennie enjoyed making aprons and raised miniature terriors for sale, and this helped to supplement their income.
She died in her sleep of high blood pressure complications June 6, 1966. Frank continued to live alone in the apartment, while Florence, who lived next door, prepared his meals.
In 1973, Frank's age began to show it's signs, with poor circulation and dementia, so he spent the summer at Silver Shores on Lake Ontario, with Emma. In August 1973, he was admitted to Samaritan Keep Home, and remained there, quite alert, until just after his 101st birthday. He gradually failed until his death at 5:55 AM on September 5, 1977.
Frank and Jennie are buried next to each other at North Watertown Cemetery, on Bradley St.,(spaces #1 and 2, north side of Lot 116, Section A).
Francis (Frank) Butler III: born Jan 24, 1876, Sutton Flats, Quebec, Canada; eldest of twelve children of Francis Butler II and Mary Ann York. Moved to Deseronto, Ontario, at 20 years old.
While living in Deseronto, ten siblings were born. They were neighbors with the Burnup family of Frank III's future wife Jennie, who was born Nov. 22, 1884, also in Deseronto. Her family moved to Watertown, NY about 1887. Jennie had seven older siblings, and attended Meade St. school in Watertown, as did her offspring.
About 1897, the Frank Butler family also moved to Watertown, once again neighbors of the Burnups.
Frank and Jennie were married March 21, 1901, later parenting eight children: George, Anne, William, Florence, Emma, Robert, Nelson (died of diphtheria at 4 years), and Naomi.
Frank and Jennie became naturalized U.S. citizens Nov. 16, 1918.
Frank worked many years in the paper manufacturing mills around Watertown.
During WW II, they moved to Syracuse, NY, where Frank worked at Brown-Lite Chapin, then as sextant at Brown Memorial Church, near their apartment on Grand Ave, and retired at 95 years old.
Jennie enjoyed making aprons and raised miniature terriors for sale, and this helped to supplement their income.
She died in her sleep of high blood pressure complications June 6, 1966. Frank continued to live alone in the apartment, while Florence, who lived next door, prepared his meals.
In 1973, Frank's age began to show it's signs, with poor circulation and dementia, so he spent the summer at Silver Shores on Lake Ontario, with Emma. In August 1973, he was admitted to Samaritan Keep Home, and remained there, quite alert, until just after his 101st birthday. He gradually failed until his death at 5:55 AM on September 5, 1977.
Frank and Jennie are buried next to each other at North Watertown Cemetery, on Bradley St.,(spaces #1 and 2, north side of Lot 116, Section A).
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
HISTORY ENTRY- 7/10/07
I hope to periodically post some Butler family history, as I receive information from various sources. I expect some of it is unknown to younger (or even older) family members, so this blog will serve as a way to retain some interesting family facts.
For the first entry, here are some notes I found in my mother's bible, which she had hand- written some years ago. It is incomplete, as page 1 is missing, so it starts on page 2 in mid- sentence:
".....and after that we moved to 615 (?) Central Ave where Nelson died with diphtheria. He was 4 years old. Anne wanted to live on the south side, so we moved to 525 Cross St.
Mom had eight children, 4 boys, 4 girls and 1 miscarriage. Mom's weight was one pound when she was born. They wrapped her in cotton, put her in a shoe box and in the oven and fed her with an eye dropper. She lived to be 85 yrs old and weighed 150 pounds.
They were both the best of parents, never a cross word to each other. Pop raised chickens and rabbits. That was most of our meat. He worked a garden and we had lots of vegetables.
He went to the garden one mile away on Bradley St. When he wasn't at the mill he was there and he worked hard.
Em and I got the groceries at the A&P in Bob's wagon, up near Court St bridge. Mom made all our bread, cakes and cookies. Five loaves of bread at once. She had real big washings. In winter Pop took the clothes off the line frozen. We had outside toilets, an iron sink with a pump for cistern water. Had to carry drinking water from a pump on the corner. Mom's brother Frank lived on the corner where we got one quart of milk. He had cows.
Mom and Dad met here again and were married at Hope Presb. Church on Leray St opposite Court St bridge. Pop made $11 a week. He was a beater engineer at No 3 paper mill in Brownville. Almost every day after school I had to take his supper to him and rode the streetcar to Brownville 5 miles for 5 cents. He met the streetcar and waited for the next car to take me home."
That's the end of her entries. Hopefully her memory was accurate.
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Butler Reunion 2007 Mark the Date for 2008
Please pass on this site to those that we missed at the reunion. Great food, swimming, fun for the kids and just good ole conversation with relatives. Let them know it will be just as much next year so mark your calendar for the last Sunday in June for 2008.Sunday, July 1, 2007
Building relationships that can last a life time and pass from generation to generation.
The oldest and the youngest
Emma Butler Traynor, 96 with her great-great granddaughter Jensen Michael St. Croix, 4 months. Jensen is saying: "Wow that many years between us". You can tell they are related check out those legs.....Kissing Cousins
What's up with the sun glasses do they hide the wrinkles??? I know this is the "Butler" reunion but really you do have to serve everyone, remember Butler's are independent!
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Welcome To The Butler Family Blog
Here is a free blog that everyone in the family can use at no cost. I will be honest, the first time you want to use it, it is tricky. However, after you obtain your sign in and get your password, it is very simple to utilize. Here is how you sign in:
1) Go to Google and in the upper right hand corner, sign up for a google account. Remember what your username is and password because this will become your sign in and password for the blog
2) Once you get you account set up, you can view the blog and comment as yourself or whatever name you choose to use. To become an author of an article, you will need to send me your email address so that I can send you an invitation to become an author. Once you click on the link(that will be in an email to you from me via the blog) to contribute to the blog, you can start authoring your own blog articles on this site.
While you are viewing the blog, in the upper right hand corner, you will the option to sign in. To sign in you will need the username and password that you selected for your google account. To view all the comments, click on the title of the article and underneath will be displayed all the comments. To post a comment, click on "post a comment" underneath the article. If anyone has any questions, please email me at jayson0410@yahoo.com or call me. I won't give out myy number but get ahold of Jim or Janice and they will get you in touch with me.
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