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- FamilySearch Family Tree.
- Find A Grave.
William Butram
BIRTH: 15 Jul 1759
Rowan County, North Carolina, USA
DEATH: 10 Nov 1853 (aged 94)
White County, Tennessee, USA
BURIAL
Richard Bradley Cemetery
Sparta, White County, Tennessee, USA
The most common older spellings of this surname are Butram and Buttram. WILLIAM BUTRAM used the two interchangeably, but seemed to favor the version with one t most often. His name is spelled Butram on his tombstone and Buttram on the memorial in front of the courthouse in White Co., Tennessee. His son in Wayne Co., Kentucky, also named William, changed the spelling to Bertram during his life time. Some branches of the family have adopted even different ways to spell the last name. In White Co., Tennessee the spelling is now Buttrum. There are many other spellings used by the descendents of this man whose final resting place is in the Richard Bradley Cemetery.
WILLIAM BUTRAM (aka Buttram, Buttrum, Bertram, etc.) was a Revolutionary War soldier on the North Carolina line. He was born 15 Jul 1759 in Rowan Co., North Carolina to Margaret and William Buttram. He grew up there. After the Revolutionary War he returned to Rowan County for several years. He married Sarah Patterson 29 Jan 1780 in Rowan County and they had four children born in Rowan County before their house burned. William then moved his family to Iredell Co., North Carolina for some years. He later moved to Lee Co., Virginia, next to Wayne Co., Kentucky, and finally to White Co., Tennessee in his last years. About 1968 the Cookeville Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) ordered a U.S. military marker for his grave and asked the historian and descendant, Professor Marshall Bertram of Tennessee Tech, to help them locate the exact spot of William's grave. Marshall had not yet found the grave with its original tombstone when the ladies ordered the marker with the supposed death year - 1848 - carved on it. It was not until Marshall found the grave that the exact date of death, November 10, 1853, was known. William Butram, with his daughter Katy and granddaughter, Mary Louisa (daughter of Willis), had been enumerated on the 1850 White Co., Tennessee Census as "Household #1420: BUTRAN, William 95, male, born NC". Little is known of his wife, Sarah Patterson, but she is believed to have died prior to his move about 1834 to White County, Tennessee.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40500051/william-butram
- Ward, Charles V. & Barbara L. (Brown). The Descendants of William Buttram I & Margaret of Rowan County, North Carolina.
- Graves, William T. Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters.
Pension application of William Butram S3100 fn23NC
Transcribed by Will Graves 10/19/10
State of Kentucky Wayne County: On this 30th day of January 1834 personally appeared before
me Benjamin Hancock an acting Justice of the peace for said County William Butram a resident
citizen of the County of Wayne aforesaid who was born on the 15th day of July 1759 agreeable
to his record which he now has in his Bible as taken from the record of his father's Bible and
after being duly sworn for that purpose on his oath states in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832
That he entered the service of the United States in the Revolutionary [war] in Rowan County North Carolina a drafted private soldier to serve against the Cherokee Indians he entered
the service in said County on the 14th day of August he is not certain the date from the great
lapse of time and from old age and loss of memory, but he thinks it was in the year 1777.1 Henry Davis was his Captain & Major James Smith and Colonel Frank Lock [sic, Francis Locke], Bazel Billingsley Lieutenant and James Billingsley Ensign, went on and joined headquarters at Pleasant Gardens near Catheys Fort and then went on through the Cherokee Nation and burnt and destroyed many of their Towns and cut down their corn and finally marched back to Salisbury having served out said tour he had a written discharge from said Captain Henry Davis and some years thereafter he was again Drafted to serve the another three months Tour under Captain William Davis & Lieutenant Bottenhammer he cannot state the precise Time of entering said service but it included the fall season of the year mostly and marched and crossed Little
River and Drowning Creek and marched down to Moore County through Randolph and finally marched back home and having served out said Tour of three months he had a written discharge from his said Captain William Davis he cannot state the date of said last mentioned Tour but he thinks it was in the year 1779. He again volunteered as a light horsemen to serve against the British and Tories under Captain John Garrison, he entered the service this time some time in the fall season he cannot state the precise time he thinks it was in the year 1780. He recollects that it was the fall not certain in the month or day and marched to many places, was not further than 40 miles from home – and marched back home he had a written discharge from said Captain having served one month. This last Tour and was making in the whole seven months. The applicant kept his discharges some years after the war and his house was burned down in Rowan County North Carolina and his said discharges burned so that he has no documentary or written Evidence of his service and knows of no person by whom he can prove his service. Applicant is well acquainted with Herman Wynn Esquire of his neighborhood and Major George Bruton, John Mash and Benjamin Hancock & Jesse Powers all of his immediate neighborhood who can Testify to applicant's good character for veracity and the Traditionary belief of his whole neighborhood of his having been a soldier of the Revolutionary War. Applicant is unable to attend a court of Record from bodily infirmity. He states that there is no clergyman in his present neighborhood, he cannot get one without considerable Trouble and is wholly unable to get one without getting some person to go after one. Applicant was born in Rowan County North Carolina and there raised and continued there many years after the war and married there and had four children there and then moved to Iredell County North Carolina stayed there 19 years, thence to Lee County Virginia stayed there about 10 years, thence to Wayne County Kentucky where he now lives and has lived for the last 18 years.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and
declares his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid.
S/ Benjamin Hancock, JP S/ William Butram, X his mark
[George Bruton & John Mash gave the standard supporting affidavit.]
[On January 12, 1847 in White County Tennessee, the veteran applied to have his pension
payments made in Tennessee having recently removed there to be with one of his daughters.]
[Veteran was pensioned at the rate of $23.33 per annum commencing March 4th, 1831, for seven
months service as a private in the North Carolina militia.]
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1Given the event he describes, I think it more likely the service was rendered in 1776.
https://revwarapps.org/s3100.pdf
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William Butram367 was born on 18 July 1759 in Salisbury, Rowan Co NC. He appeared in the census in 1790 in Iredell Co., NC. He appeared in the census in 1800 in Iredell Co., NC. [NEED TO DEFINE SENTENCE:Tax List] William appeared in the census in 1820 in Wayne Co., KY. He appeared in the census in 1830 in Wayne Co., KY. He appeared in the census in 1840 in White Co., TN. William appeared in the census in 1850 in White Co., TN. He died on 10 November 1853 at the age of 94 in White Co., Tennessee. He died in November 1853 at the age of 94 in White Co. Tennessee. William was buried in November 1853 in White Co Tennessee. William is buried on the Calfkiller River just south of Putnam County in White County. The cemetery is in an pasture that is grazed by cattle. He has a marker that was placed by the DAR. He served in the military in Revolutionary War soldier, VA line. He was also known as William BUTTRAM. William fought in a campaign against the Cherokee Indians. He was a private with the North Carolina Militia in the Revolutionary War. It has been handed down that he was with Washington at Valley Forge. He volunteered as a light horse man against the British.
William BUTRAM, II was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He served as a Private a total of seven months. From his pension papers and census records we know he was born in Rowan County, North Carolina and continued living there after marriage, and the birth of his first four children.
http://guyzimmerman.com/11092011/b117.htm
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