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Effie May <I>Butler</I> Young

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Effie May Butler Young

Birth
Spring Lake, Utah County, Utah, USA
Death
24 Apr 1974 (aged 85)
Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, USA
Burial
Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, USA Add to Map
Plot
A143
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EFFIE MAY BUTLER

Effie May Butler was born. 4 May 1888 in Springlake, Utah, the daughter of James Butler, born 23 Nov. 1818 in. Redbourn, Hertsfordshire, England and Jane Winsby (nicknamed Jenny, so as not to confuse her with her mother) bore 23 July 1859 in Stockton. Durham, England.
She was the granddaughter of John Winsby and Jane Taylor, converts to the church in England and migrated to Zion in May of 1863 on an old freighter sailboat. They buried a little son, Thomas at sea and arrived in Payson, Utah in the fall of 1863, crossing the plains by ox team and wagon. John Winsby died on the 11th of January, 1864 at Payson, Utah, leaving Jane Tay1or Winsby a widow with two little girls, Elizabeth and Jenny. Jane Taylor Winsby then married James Butler (she being his third wife) and had a son by him, John Winsby Butler. When Jenny became a young lady of seventeen she married her stepfather and in her later years, she confided that it was not her choice to do so. But on 21 Feb. 1876 she became the fourth wife of James Butler, she being only seventeen and he being fifty-eight years old.
Five children were born to this union. Ethel, born 26 Aug. 1879, died 14 Oct. 1882. Harry, born 11 March 1884. William Edward, born 4 Dec. 1885. Effie May, born 4 May 1888 and Rollo Taylor, born 10 Jan. 1891, died 26 Feb. 1891. Effie's brothers, Harry and William had beautiful voices. Harry sang in the Tabernacle Choir for many years. This talent was inherited by some of Effie's children and grandchildren.
This was not a happy marriage and Jenny went to the church authorities; told her story and was divorced from James Butler the 21 Sept. 1892 when her daughter, Effie May Butler was only four years old. They were living in Springlake, Utah at the time. James Butler became so angry when Jenny divorced him that he also refused to live with Jenny's mother, Jane. He was a hot headed little Englishman and said, "If I can't have Jenny, I won't have anyone."
Jenny and her children were very poor and Effie often told of the struggle they had to support themselves. But children are usually happy and such was the case with Effie. She told of how she enjoyed ice skating on the small lake close to their little farm. She became a very good skater and when the young folks got together to play pop the whip on the ice, she always asked to be the tail.
She enjoyed school and had a beautiful handwriting. Whenever the teacher needed something written on the blackboard, she always asked Effie to do it. She had one task to do nearly every day that was quite a chore for her. She had to tear and sew together enough rags for a carpet ball before she could go out and play. Her grandmother was very frugal person and Effie often spoke of how her grandmother would say to her, "Waste not, want not." Effie often used this expression to her own children. Her grandmother believed very strongly in the old adage, "Children are to be seen and not heard."
In the year of 1903, when Effie was fifteen years old, her mother and her grandmother decided to move the family to the Mormon colonies in Dublan, Chihuahua, Mexico. Both of her brothers, Harry and William had left home and were on their own. Her half brother Winsby had married and had moved to Mexico and encouraged them to come, so they sold the little farm and made the move. Effie and her mother worked in other people's homes to support themselves and her grandmother. This was very hard work and provided a very frugal living. Effie finally got a job working in a tailor shop, where she became a very good seamstress; a talent she used the rest of her life in raising her family, especially her four daughters. She enjoyed her girlhood in Dublan with the young folks; dancing, hay rides, candy pulls and all the things that young people like to do. It was her that she met her future husband, William. Harrison Young Sr., who had gone to Mexico with his parents in 1896. This was a romance that developed into marriage. They were married in the Salt Lake Temple 3 October1907, traveling by train to Salt Lake City, Utah. Upon their return to Mexico they lived with William's parents, James Absalom and Lillian Adelaide Hurst Young for a few months. Effie was not happy living there, so they moved in with her mother and grandmother for about a year until they were able to buy a few acres of land with a small lumber house on it, where they began keeping house by themselves.
In time, the Mexican revolution led to the exodus and they had to leave Mexico. Their final home was in the small community of Binghampton, outside Tucson, Arizona. The story of their years after leaving Mexico are told in the history of her husband, William Harrison Young Sr.

Effie was a very refined, sensitive and artistic person. . She loved the beauty of nature and the arts. Even though she and her husband were pioneers and had to struggle through poverty and hardships, she always found a way to make her home, no matter how humble it was, as attractive as possible with what little she had. In later years when they became more prosperous and her husband Will built her a new home. People loved to come and see it, as she was very artistic and made it very attractive by spending hours cutting out flowers and leaves and vines from drapery material and pasting them on the walls in very attractive and artistic designs. One of her last pieces was done when she was past eighty years old. She loved a pretty yard and spent hours keeping it clean and attractive. She took great pride in dressing her children neatly and attractively and they always had the cutest dresses, which Effie made herself. Many times the children had only one nice change of clothes, but they were always kept neatly mended, washed and ironed so the children always looked nicely dressed when they went to church and to school. She was quite an actress and played in many of the plays that were put on by the church. She worked in many callings in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was a Relief Society President and a Relief Society Visiting Teacher for many years.
She was left a widow on the 15 August, 1967. She was seventy-nine years of age. She loved a beautiful green yard with flowers and trees and she often said when she visited the little Mormon cemetery nestled in the sage brush and cactus in the foothills at the base of the Catalina Mountains that she wanted to be buried in her front yard under her big pine tree. She didn't like the cemetery in the foothills with its sage brush and cactus. But a few days after her husband was buried, her daughter Thora took her over to the cemetery just at dusk. Everything was so quiet and peaceful; just the faint chirping of the little night birds. Mother said, "I'm ready to be buried here."After her husband's passing she continued to live in her home by herself, continuing to do what she could to keep her place attractive.
But on the 17 March 1973 she had a massive stroke and was left paralyzed on her right side. She then had to be put in a nursing home. This was very hard on Effie, as she missed her home. At this time she lacked six weeks of being eighty-five years old. She loved the Gospel and had a strong testimony of its truthfulness. One day shortly before she passed away, her daughter was visiting with her in the nursing home, and Effie said, "I'm ready to go now; I want to be with my husband." She passed away the April 24, 1974 at Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, just ten days before her 86th birthday. She was buried just before sun down at the side of her husband in the little cemetery nestled in the foothills at the foot of the Catalina Mountains.
Her granddaughter, Jeanette Criger Done and her sister-in-law, Joy Young Nelson sang at her graveside.
EFFIE MAY BUTLER

Effie May Butler was born. 4 May 1888 in Springlake, Utah, the daughter of James Butler, born 23 Nov. 1818 in. Redbourn, Hertsfordshire, England and Jane Winsby (nicknamed Jenny, so as not to confuse her with her mother) bore 23 July 1859 in Stockton. Durham, England.
She was the granddaughter of John Winsby and Jane Taylor, converts to the church in England and migrated to Zion in May of 1863 on an old freighter sailboat. They buried a little son, Thomas at sea and arrived in Payson, Utah in the fall of 1863, crossing the plains by ox team and wagon. John Winsby died on the 11th of January, 1864 at Payson, Utah, leaving Jane Tay1or Winsby a widow with two little girls, Elizabeth and Jenny. Jane Taylor Winsby then married James Butler (she being his third wife) and had a son by him, John Winsby Butler. When Jenny became a young lady of seventeen she married her stepfather and in her later years, she confided that it was not her choice to do so. But on 21 Feb. 1876 she became the fourth wife of James Butler, she being only seventeen and he being fifty-eight years old.
Five children were born to this union. Ethel, born 26 Aug. 1879, died 14 Oct. 1882. Harry, born 11 March 1884. William Edward, born 4 Dec. 1885. Effie May, born 4 May 1888 and Rollo Taylor, born 10 Jan. 1891, died 26 Feb. 1891. Effie's brothers, Harry and William had beautiful voices. Harry sang in the Tabernacle Choir for many years. This talent was inherited by some of Effie's children and grandchildren.
This was not a happy marriage and Jenny went to the church authorities; told her story and was divorced from James Butler the 21 Sept. 1892 when her daughter, Effie May Butler was only four years old. They were living in Springlake, Utah at the time. James Butler became so angry when Jenny divorced him that he also refused to live with Jenny's mother, Jane. He was a hot headed little Englishman and said, "If I can't have Jenny, I won't have anyone."
Jenny and her children were very poor and Effie often told of the struggle they had to support themselves. But children are usually happy and such was the case with Effie. She told of how she enjoyed ice skating on the small lake close to their little farm. She became a very good skater and when the young folks got together to play pop the whip on the ice, she always asked to be the tail.
She enjoyed school and had a beautiful handwriting. Whenever the teacher needed something written on the blackboard, she always asked Effie to do it. She had one task to do nearly every day that was quite a chore for her. She had to tear and sew together enough rags for a carpet ball before she could go out and play. Her grandmother was very frugal person and Effie often spoke of how her grandmother would say to her, "Waste not, want not." Effie often used this expression to her own children. Her grandmother believed very strongly in the old adage, "Children are to be seen and not heard."
In the year of 1903, when Effie was fifteen years old, her mother and her grandmother decided to move the family to the Mormon colonies in Dublan, Chihuahua, Mexico. Both of her brothers, Harry and William had left home and were on their own. Her half brother Winsby had married and had moved to Mexico and encouraged them to come, so they sold the little farm and made the move. Effie and her mother worked in other people's homes to support themselves and her grandmother. This was very hard work and provided a very frugal living. Effie finally got a job working in a tailor shop, where she became a very good seamstress; a talent she used the rest of her life in raising her family, especially her four daughters. She enjoyed her girlhood in Dublan with the young folks; dancing, hay rides, candy pulls and all the things that young people like to do. It was her that she met her future husband, William. Harrison Young Sr., who had gone to Mexico with his parents in 1896. This was a romance that developed into marriage. They were married in the Salt Lake Temple 3 October1907, traveling by train to Salt Lake City, Utah. Upon their return to Mexico they lived with William's parents, James Absalom and Lillian Adelaide Hurst Young for a few months. Effie was not happy living there, so they moved in with her mother and grandmother for about a year until they were able to buy a few acres of land with a small lumber house on it, where they began keeping house by themselves.
In time, the Mexican revolution led to the exodus and they had to leave Mexico. Their final home was in the small community of Binghampton, outside Tucson, Arizona. The story of their years after leaving Mexico are told in the history of her husband, William Harrison Young Sr.

Effie was a very refined, sensitive and artistic person. . She loved the beauty of nature and the arts. Even though she and her husband were pioneers and had to struggle through poverty and hardships, she always found a way to make her home, no matter how humble it was, as attractive as possible with what little she had. In later years when they became more prosperous and her husband Will built her a new home. People loved to come and see it, as she was very artistic and made it very attractive by spending hours cutting out flowers and leaves and vines from drapery material and pasting them on the walls in very attractive and artistic designs. One of her last pieces was done when she was past eighty years old. She loved a pretty yard and spent hours keeping it clean and attractive. She took great pride in dressing her children neatly and attractively and they always had the cutest dresses, which Effie made herself. Many times the children had only one nice change of clothes, but they were always kept neatly mended, washed and ironed so the children always looked nicely dressed when they went to church and to school. She was quite an actress and played in many of the plays that were put on by the church. She worked in many callings in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was a Relief Society President and a Relief Society Visiting Teacher for many years.
She was left a widow on the 15 August, 1967. She was seventy-nine years of age. She loved a beautiful green yard with flowers and trees and she often said when she visited the little Mormon cemetery nestled in the sage brush and cactus in the foothills at the base of the Catalina Mountains that she wanted to be buried in her front yard under her big pine tree. She didn't like the cemetery in the foothills with its sage brush and cactus. But a few days after her husband was buried, her daughter Thora took her over to the cemetery just at dusk. Everything was so quiet and peaceful; just the faint chirping of the little night birds. Mother said, "I'm ready to be buried here."After her husband's passing she continued to live in her home by herself, continuing to do what she could to keep her place attractive.
But on the 17 March 1973 she had a massive stroke and was left paralyzed on her right side. She then had to be put in a nursing home. This was very hard on Effie, as she missed her home. At this time she lacked six weeks of being eighty-five years old. She loved the Gospel and had a strong testimony of its truthfulness. One day shortly before she passed away, her daughter was visiting with her in the nursing home, and Effie said, "I'm ready to go now; I want to be with my husband." She passed away the April 24, 1974 at Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, just ten days before her 86th birthday. She was buried just before sun down at the side of her husband in the little cemetery nestled in the foothills at the foot of the Catalina Mountains.
Her granddaughter, Jeanette Criger Done and her sister-in-law, Joy Young Nelson sang at her graveside.


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