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Dr John Augustus Butler

Birth
Decatur County, Georgia, USA
Death
5 Sep 1884 (aged 29)
Arlington, Calhoun County, Georgia, USA
Burial
Whigham, Grady County, Georgia, USA Add to Map
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1860 Census Bainbridge, Decatur, GA Film M653_119 pg 106
Robt Butler 35 Head Farmer 3000 9500 NC
Martha Butler 31 Wife GA
Wm C Butler 10 Son GA
James Henry Butler 8 Son GA
John A Butler 6 Son GA
Charles F Butler 3 Son GA

U.S. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
Name: Doctor John Augustus Butler
SAR Membership: 83170
Birth Date: 27 Apr 1855
Birth Place: Arlington, Georgia
Death Date: 5 Sep 1884
Death Place: Arlington, Georgia
Spouse: Adna Lucinda Bostwick
Children: Bessie Mayselle Butler and Ford Augustus Butler.
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Info below is provided by his great granddaughter, Bonnie Jean Butler Gibson

Dr. John Augustus Butler was born in Whigham Town, Decatur, Georgia and died in Arlington, Calhoun, Georgia. He was married to Adna Lucinda Bostwick on Oct. 31, 1878 in Whigham. They removed to Arlington in 1878 when he started his medical practice.

Arlington News
Sept 1884

"Thus has passed away one of Arlington's good citizens, the people commemorating the sad event by closing their houses of business and repairing to the Methodist church, where appropriate services were held, thence to the cemetery where they performed the last rites of Christian burial, and there his remains rest in the hope of eternal life." LHS

LHS wrote his obit and was the headmaster of an Academy in Blakely where Dr. John started school in 1874. Dr John was also a clerk in the mercantile establishment of Butler and Broome in Blakely. He read medicine with Dr. Murchison in Blakely in 1875. In 1876 went to Baltimore, Maryland to attend Medical College (now John Hopkins) and then graduated from Medical College in Augusta, GA in 1878
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1860 Census Bainbridge, Decatur, GA Film M653_119 pg 106
Robt Butler 35 Head Farmer 3000 9500 NC
Martha Butler 31 Wife GA
Wm C Butler 10 Son GA
James Henry Butler 8 Son GA
John A Butler 6 Son GA
Charles F Butler 3 Son GA

U.S. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
Name: Doctor John Augustus Butler
SAR Membership: 83170
Birth Date: 27 Apr 1855
Birth Place: Arlington, Georgia
Death Date: 5 Sep 1884
Death Place: Arlington, Georgia
Spouse: Adna Lucinda Bostwick
Children: Bessie Mayselle Butler and Ford Augustus Butler.
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Info below is provided by his great granddaughter, Bonnie Jean Butler Gibson

Dr. John Augustus Butler was born in Whigham Town, Decatur, Georgia and died in Arlington, Calhoun, Georgia. He was married to Adna Lucinda Bostwick on Oct. 31, 1878 in Whigham. They removed to Arlington in 1878 when he started his medical practice.

Arlington News
Sept 1884

"Thus has passed away one of Arlington's good citizens, the people commemorating the sad event by closing their houses of business and repairing to the Methodist church, where appropriate services were held, thence to the cemetery where they performed the last rites of Christian burial, and there his remains rest in the hope of eternal life." LHS

LHS wrote his obit and was the headmaster of an Academy in Blakely where Dr. John started school in 1874. Dr John was also a clerk in the mercantile establishment of Butler and Broome in Blakely. He read medicine with Dr. Murchison in Blakely in 1875. In 1876 went to Baltimore, Maryland to attend Medical College (now John Hopkins) and then graduated from Medical College in Augusta, GA in 1878
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