Son of Montgomery Button.
All the Button brothers worked on construction of the mud dam in Bear Valley in 1883.
Brother of the famous Button Brothers gang immortalized in Louis L"Amour book, "MOJAVE CROSSING" a FICTIONAL WORK .
In it he states the Button brothers actually used the Hidden Valley to hide stolen horses and they where killed , sometime later, in a gun battle in San Bernardino.
(note:Hidden Valley is named Joshua Tree National Monument)
They where associated with the McHaney Brothers and their gang of outlaws.
The Buttons were said to be the sons of Montgomery Button, famed as one of the founders of the Mormon colony at San Bernardino.
While in Deming, New Mexico, in 1862, the Buttons brothers were embroiled in a heated gunfight. One of there associates, Bill Lang, died in the battle.
Information in San Bernardino Sun Newspaper.
A recent letter from relative says this is not true, that Charles was born to late, James died in 1859 killed by Indians, Jutson was married in 1860 and living in Utah, leaving only Samuel who passed away of cancer in Salt Lake City in 1880.
Montgomery and Mary Button had 10 children, five died in infancy. James, Jutson, Louisa Samuel and Charles survived.
Information in Mary B.Lewis Collection
All the Button brothers worked on construction of the mud dam in Bear Valley in 1883.
Brother of the famous Button Brothers gang immortalized in Louis L"Amour book, "MOJAVE CROSSING" a FICTIONAL WORK .
In it he states the Button brothers actually used the Hidden Valley to hide stolen horses and they where killed , sometime later, in a gun battle in San Bernardino.
(note:Hidden Valley is named Joshua Tree National Monument)
They where associated with the McHaney Brothers and their gang of outlaws.
The Buttons were said to be the sons of Montgomery Button, famed as one of the founders of the Mormon colony at San Bernardino.
While in Deming, New Mexico, in 1862, the Buttons brothers were embroiled in a heated gunfight. One of there associates, Bill Lang, died in the battle.
Information in San Bernardino Sun Newspaper.
A recent letter from relative says this is not true, that Charles was born to late, James died in 1859 killed by Indians, Jutson was married in 1860 and living in Utah, leaving only Samuel who passed away of cancer in Salt Lake City in 1880.
Montgomery and Mary Button had 10 children, five died in infancy. James, Jutson, Louisa Samuel and Charles survived.
Information in Mary B.Lewis Collection
Son of Montgomery Button.
All the Button brothers worked on construction of the mud dam in Bear Valley in 1883.
Brother of the famous Button Brothers gang immortalized in Louis L"Amour book, "MOJAVE CROSSING" a FICTIONAL WORK .
In it he states the Button brothers actually used the Hidden Valley to hide stolen horses and they where killed , sometime later, in a gun battle in San Bernardino.
(note:Hidden Valley is named Joshua Tree National Monument)
They where associated with the McHaney Brothers and their gang of outlaws.
The Buttons were said to be the sons of Montgomery Button, famed as one of the founders of the Mormon colony at San Bernardino.
While in Deming, New Mexico, in 1862, the Buttons brothers were embroiled in a heated gunfight. One of there associates, Bill Lang, died in the battle.
Information in San Bernardino Sun Newspaper.
A recent letter from relative says this is not true, that Charles was born to late, James died in 1859 killed by Indians, Jutson was married in 1860 and living in Utah, leaving only Samuel who passed away of cancer in Salt Lake City in 1880.
Montgomery and Mary Button had 10 children, five died in infancy. James, Jutson, Louisa Samuel and Charles survived.
Information in Mary B.Lewis Collection
All the Button brothers worked on construction of the mud dam in Bear Valley in 1883.
Brother of the famous Button Brothers gang immortalized in Louis L"Amour book, "MOJAVE CROSSING" a FICTIONAL WORK .
In it he states the Button brothers actually used the Hidden Valley to hide stolen horses and they where killed , sometime later, in a gun battle in San Bernardino.
(note:Hidden Valley is named Joshua Tree National Monument)
They where associated with the McHaney Brothers and their gang of outlaws.
The Buttons were said to be the sons of Montgomery Button, famed as one of the founders of the Mormon colony at San Bernardino.
While in Deming, New Mexico, in 1862, the Buttons brothers were embroiled in a heated gunfight. One of there associates, Bill Lang, died in the battle.
Information in San Bernardino Sun Newspaper.
A recent letter from relative says this is not true, that Charles was born to late, James died in 1859 killed by Indians, Jutson was married in 1860 and living in Utah, leaving only Samuel who passed away of cancer in Salt Lake City in 1880.
Montgomery and Mary Button had 10 children, five died in infancy. James, Jutson, Louisa Samuel and Charles survived.
Information in Mary B.Lewis Collection
Gravesite Details
Stone was missing in 1936.
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