Butler cousins are invited to attend special dedication of a marker for Bailey Butler b 1779 d 1842. This is my great great great grandfather. His son Franklin Walker Butler migrated from TN to southern IL in 1865 and eventually settled in Jefferson Co, IL and is buried at Laird Cemetery, Jefferson Co, IL. Bill Butler, a lawyer in Wake Forest, IL has been working with others to get the State of Tennesee to put up a plaque at Butler's Landing, TN. Details are posted on my website for the ceremony July 4, 2003. Come meet other Butler cousins. http://whalen-family.org/Bailey-dedication.html BUTLER'S LANDING HISTORICAL MARKER DEDICATION CEREMONY The Tennessee Historical Commission recently approved a historical highway marker for the Butler's Landing community. The sponsors of the marker are William J. Butler, Esq. of Lake Forest, IL; Emily Butler of Chicago, IL; Robert C. Butler of Suffem, NY; Mary Butler Hastings of Honolulu, Hawaii; and Carolyn Butler Douglas of San Diego, CA, all of whom are descendants of Bailey Butler. There will be a dedication of the marker at the Butler's Landing Church of Christ, on Friday, the 4th of July, 2003, at 10:30 A.M. Descendants and collateral relations of Bailey Butler and his brothers, together with interested citizens of Celina, Butler's Landing, and nearby communities are all invited to attend. Picnic lunches may be purchased following the dedication. The text of the marker is as follows: First side of marker: BUTLER'S LANDING Daniel Boone, on his second trip to the Western Territory in 1773, following the old game and Indian trail to where two creeks flowed into the Cumberland River. He referred to them as the Twin or Double Creeks in his Journal. On this trip, he spent the winter on the bluff (now known as the "Seven Sisters" ) down the river below what became Butler's Landing at the mouth of the Twin Creeks, - Mill Creek, and Dry Fork Creek. Congress, in 1820, established the fourth post road at Butler's Land. Second side of marker: BAILEY BUTLER 1779-1842 During the War of 1812, Bailey Butler, an early 19th century pioneer at Clay (then Jackson ) County, and a Captain of the West Tennessee Volunteer Militia, fought in the Battle of Talladega under Command Andrew Jackson. Butler was named first postmaster of what became known as Butler's Landing in 1831. The first county court met nearby in 1871 on land first owned and operated by Bailey Butler and his family. The Butler's built their houses, and operated a river ferry and landing site on the Cumberland River at it's juncture with Mill Creek and Dry Fork Creek. Sandy (Whalen) Bauer