{"id":3158,"date":"2022-01-10T14:35:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3158"},"modified":"2022-01-10T14:35:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:35:13","slug":"butler-w-p-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/butler-w-p-h\/","title":{"rendered":"Butler, W. P. H."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>W. P. H. Butler<\/strong>, an influential farmer and merchant, residing at Flippin&#8217;s,<br \/>\nLauderdale County, was born in Oglethorpe County, Ga., August 18, 1849. His<br \/>\nfather, B. Butler, was a native of Georgia, born January 6, 1828, and moved to<br \/>\nthis State in 1866, locating in Fulton, on the Mississippi River. He was<br \/>\nmarried before leaving Georgia to Miss Sarah Landrum, sister of Rev. Dr.<br \/>\nLandrum, of New Orleans, well known for brave service during the yellow fever<br \/>\nscourge in Memphis, and a daughter of William Landrum, a prominent planter.<br \/>\nThis marriage was blessed with five sons and three daughters, our subject<br \/>\nbeing the eldest born. The father began merchandising at Fort Pillow in 1878,<br \/>\nwhere he died, December 1882. The mother was born in Oglethorpe County, Ga.,<br \/>\nMay 9, 1826, and is now living at Flippin&#8217;s, Tenn. Our subject was raised at<br \/>\nLincolnton, Ga., received a common school education, and has made farming and<br \/>\nmerchandising his business. When only fifteen years of age he enlisted in the<br \/>\nConfederate Army, and belonged to the First Georgia Regiment, under Col.<br \/>\nWillis. He participated in the retreat from Dalton to Atlanta, being at the<br \/>\nsiege at the latter place. After the evacuation of Atlanta, he was with the<br \/>\narmy in front of Sherman to the sea-board, and, after nearly two years&#8217; hard<br \/>\nservice, was disbanded under the terms of Johnston&#8217;s surrender. Mr. Butler was<br \/>\nmarried at Ripley, July 5, 1876, to Miss Ada P. Glass, daughter of the present<br \/>\nmember of Congress from that district. Mrs. Butler was born in Ripley, Tenn.,<br \/>\nJune 24, 1857. Mr. Butler is a Democrat and a Mason. He owns 300 acres of<br \/>\nland, on which he raises cotton and grain, but gives his chief attention to<br \/>\nstock. The farm is situated on the Newport News &amp; Mississippi Valley Railroad,<br \/>\nnear Flippin&#8217;s, where our subject is a prominent merchant. Mr. Butler is a man<br \/>\nof fine social position, and of influence and business capacity, exceeding<br \/>\npopular in his community.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>W. P. H. Butler, an influential farmer and merchant, residing at Flippin&#8217;s, Lauderdale County, was born in Oglethorpe County, Ga., August 18, 1849. His father, B. Butler, was a native of Georgia, born January 6, 1828, and moved to this <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/butler-w-p-h\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-3158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-butler"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3159,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions\/3159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}