Person:William Butler (165)

Maj. Gen. William Orlando Butler, Esq.
m. 30 May 1786
  1. Maj. Gen. William Orlando Butler, Esq.1791 - 1880
  • HMaj. Gen. William Orlando Butler, Esq.1791 - 1880
  • WEliza Todd
m. 19 Apr 1817
Facts and Events
Name Maj. Gen. William Orlando Butler, Esq.
Gender Male
Birth[2] 19 Apr 1791 Jessamine, Kentucky, United States
Marriage 19 Apr 1817 source = OLT, needs verification
to Eliza Todd
Death[2] 6 Aug 1880 Carrollton, Carroll, Kentucky, United States
Burial[1] Carrollton, Carroll, Kentucky, United StatesButler Family Cemetery
References
  1. Grave Recorded, in Find A Grave.

    [Includes headstone photo.]

  2. 2.0 2.1 William Orlando Butler, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
    Last retrieved Jan 2016.

    William Orlando Butler (April 19, 1791 – August 6, 1880) was a U.S. political figure and U.S. Army major general from Kentucky. He served as a Democratic congressman from Kentucky from 1839 to 1843, and was the Democratic vice-presidential nominee under Lewis Cass in 1848. ...

  3.   Family Recorded, in English, William Hayden. Conquest of the country northwest of the river Ohio, 1778-1783, and life of Gen. George Rogers Clark: with numerous sketches of men who served under Clark, and full list of those allotted lands in Clark's Grant for service in the campaigns against the British posts, showing exact land allotted each. (Indianapolis, Indiana: Bowen-Merrill Co., 1896)
    2:949.