George Butler - Bishop Post, G.A.R. - Addendum

 

In November, 2017, a post was written about George Butler, Civil War soldier and member of the G.A.R. in Defiance.

https://defiancecountyohiogenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/11/george-w-butler-bishop-post-gar.html

I want to thank Mike Konieczny, one of the descendants of
the Butler family, for adding to the story with

more photos and a vignette of George's wife,

Margaret.

 

  

 

Mike wrote:

"Maggie (Margaret) Mattock Butler, Sister of Almina, Wife of Chickamauga Veteran, 100 year-old

Margaret Mattock Butler, who lived to be 100, was married to a Civil War Battle of Chickamauga veteran.  She was the sister of Clemenza Mattock Conn Ogden and was from the Defiance area.  My mother, Joanne Konieczny, as a 10 year old girl, remembered visiting Margaret in the rest home.  At the time of the visit, she was in the company of her grandmother, Theodoshia Conn Humphrey.  Joanne said that Margaret was blind at the time of the visit.  Joanne remembered Margaret saying, 'Oh, Doshi, is that you?'  

The newspaper clipping (above) was in Avery and Lois' house for 60 years.  In the newspaper clipping, she says her family came to the Defiance area from Coshocton Co. in 1849, and her parents hacked a farm out of the wilderness.  She had 4 children, only one of whom was living at the time in Fort Collins, CO.  His name was Francis. In one of the old pictures (1931), another son, George (married to Nellie) Butler must have been a sometimes visitor to the Toussaint area of Ottawa County, OH."