Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904, pp 703-704 [McCracken] EDWIN D. BUTLER, who is engaged in farming and gardening at Cecil, McCracken county, Kentucky, is a native of Tennessee, and dates his birth in the year 1849. His father was a native of Simpson county, Kentucky, and his mother of Tennessee, their names being John E. and Harriet (Hart) Butler. They were married in 1845, their lives were happily blended together for more than half a century, and they reared a large and respected family. He died in 1901, at the age of seventy-four years, and was buried in Golconda, Illinois; his widow is seventy-four years, and is still living at Golconda. Of their family, we record that James Butler, a well known timber man, who operated in the south, died in Arkansas, in the year 1895, at the age of forty-one years; Henry Butler, also well known as a timber man, who did business in Illinois, Kentucky and Arkansas, died in 1891, in McCracken county, Kentucky; John Butler of Alabama, is engaged in the same business; Harriet, wife of Henry Baker, of Golconda, Illinois, died in 1894, at the age of forty-two years; Sarah is the wife of Charlie Wormstead, of McCracken county, Kentucky; Mary, wife of John Baker, of Golconda, Illinois, died in 1895, at the age of thirty-four years; Nancie [sic] Butler died in 1897, at the age of twenty-three years; Lula, wife of James King, of Golconda, Illinois, died in 1892, at the age of thirty-eight years. Edwin D. Butler was quite young when his parents moved with their family from Tennessee to Illinois and located at Golconda, where he was reared and educated. Leaving school in 1870, he secured employment as cook on a steamboat running from Pittsburgh to Morgan City, Louisiana, and also visiting points on rivers tributary to the Ohio and Mississippi. In this way he was occupied for a period of eighteen years. In 1890 he came to McCracken county, Kentucky, and turned his attention to farming and gardening, and his thirteen years her have been attended with success. In 1885 Mr. Butler married Miss Martha Gorry, of Golconda, Illinois, and the children of this union are Douglas, George, Gus, Fred, Sidney, Harriet and Hester. Butler Hart Baker Wormstead King Gorry = Simpson-KY TN IL AR AL http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/mccracken/butler.ed.txt