"Mr. and Mrs. Butts were natives, respectively, of Canterbury, Conn., and Georgia. The latter's father, John G. Polhill, was a judge of the superior court of Georgia, and died at Scottsboro, near Milledgeville. James R. Butts, who became surgeon-general of the state of Georgia, was the great-grandson of Josiah and Elizabeth Butts, who were the parents of fourteen children. At one period of the revolutionary war they had seven sons and eight grandsons in the patriot army."*
Catherine Butts married Capt. William Henry Atwood 16 August 1867 in Bibb County, Georgia.
Catherine and William had one daughter, Louise McIntosh Atwood. Catherine died in October 1870.
After Catherine's death, William remarried her younger sister Tallulah in October 1871.
*Memoirs of Georgia, Vol II (published 1895)
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"Mr. and Mrs. Butts were natives, respectively, of Canterbury, Conn., and Georgia. The latter's father, John G. Polhill, was a judge of the superior court of Georgia, and died at Scottsboro, near Milledgeville. James R. Butts, who became surgeon-general of the state of Georgia, was the great-grandson of Josiah and Elizabeth Butts, who were the parents of fourteen children. At one period of the revolutionary war they had seven sons and eight grandsons in the patriot army."*
Catherine Butts married Capt. William Henry Atwood 16 August 1867 in Bibb County, Georgia.
Catherine and William had one daughter, Louise McIntosh Atwood. Catherine died in October 1870.
After Catherine's death, William remarried her younger sister Tallulah in October 1871.
*Memoirs of Georgia, Vol II (published 1895)
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