JAMES H. BUTT.
The subject of this sketch, a farmer four miles north of Abingdon on
the Lebanon pike, was born on the 16th of October, 1828, in Franklin
county, Virginia. On the 29th of September, 1853, near Abingdon, he
was united in marriage to Mary E. G. Price, who was born in Abingdon,
on October 24, 1834. They have two daughters, Sarah Jane, now Mrs.
Wm. S. Fleenor, and Emma A. C.
Previous to the late war, Mr. Butt was a captain in the State militia;
and being subject to military duty was, in 1863, by order of the War
Department, Confederate States government, detailed to manufacture
hats for the army, at Rice Spring, Virginia, and so continued until the
close of the war. He had three brothers in the Confederate army, John
W., Henry C. and Joseph M., the first two with Gen. J. E. B. Stuart,
the last-named serving in the Virginia Reserves. John W. was accidentally
killed in 1864, in Russell county, Virginia, by being thrown
from his horse. In 1867 or '68 Mr. Butt became a member of Abingdon
Lodge, No. 48, A. F. & A. M.; two brothers are also Master Masons.
Mr. Butt is a son of Rignal Butt, late of Berkeley county, Virginia,
whose father was Rignal Butt, late of that county, near Harpers Ferry,
and came of German ancestry. His mother was Sarah, daughter of
Jacob Bondurant, late of Franklin county, Virginia, and of French
descent, thought to have been Huguenots.
Mrs. Mary E. G. Butt is the daughter of Lodwick Price, late of
Abingdon, whose father was Edmond Price, late of Lynchburg, Virginia.
Her mother was Jane C. W., daughter of Patrick and Catharine
Lynch, who were among the earliest settlers of Abingdon; they were of
French extraction.
