Anna, Hi, I'm Helen Doss. I have that James Carroll Doss was Marr to Mary Jane Butram and had a son Berry Allen Doss. James also Married Rebecca C. Driver, and Lucy Emolene Harwood. Also that Azariah Jefferson Doss marr a Butram, but don't know which one. All buried at Underwood. Helen > [Original Message] > From: Anna L Bertram <abertram@heartoftn.net> > To: <TNMACON-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: 5/4/2005 8:49:29 AM > Subject: [TNMACON] Nita, BUTRAM, BUTRUM, etc. > > Nita, > > It is my pleasure to exchange information with you on the family of Pleasant > BUTRAM (1812-1885) and his two wives. First may I ask the source for a > middle name for Pleasant? I have never before seen even a middle initial for > him although he did name one son Pleasant Henry and another Henry Elbridge. > > The < B > name is difficult to spell. Although old Pleasant consistently > spelled his name as BUTRAM, some of his children and later generations > spelled it other ways. The same name is frequently spelled BUTRAM, BUTTRAM, > BUTRUM, BUTTRUM, and many other ways, including BERTRAM for those who were > in Wayne Co., KY in the mid to late 1800s. > > I believe the B in Harriet's name was BRADLEY, her married name by her first > husband. Therefore her name should be written Harriet (CAGE) BRADLEY BUTRAM > or Harriet (CAGE) B. BUTRAM, not Harriet B. Cage Butrum. (Although I > probably wrote it this way myself.) Her first husband was Terry BRADLEY. She > used B as a middle initial, probably, because she had children by her first > marriage also. > > I will try to answer your questions. You asked " Do you have the spouse's > name for Mary J., Lucy, Rachel A. Bishop Alvin? Also the death date of > Lucinda Driver Butrum." > > Mary Jane "Mollie" BUTRAM married James FORD. She is buried in the Bradley > Cemetery with a fieldstone marker that has no writing on it > > Lucy BUTRAM is believed to have died of tuberculosis before 1860. > > Rachel A. BUTRAM is also believed to have died of tuberculosis before 1860. > > However, regarding Lucy and Rachel . . . Either Rachel or her sister Lucy > may have married Jim DOSS and given birth to a child named Berry Allen DOSS > on February 17, 1856. J. DOSS was on the 1860 Macon Co., TN Census with a > child designated as B.A. DOSS, age 2. The child's mother was not in the home > and it is supposed she died by 1860. I would like to know for sure which of > the girls lived long enough to marry and give birth to a child. > > Bishop Alvin BUTRAM apparently married Sarah E. Unknown, at least they were > living together with her children when the 1880 Macon Co., TN Census was > enumerated. I have his death certificate if you are interested. He died July > 4, 1919 in Graves Co., Kentucky. It says he was a widower so does not give > the name of a wife. > > Lucinda (DRIVER) BUTRAM, first wife of Pleasant BUTRAM, died of > tuberculosis. According to the MACON COUNTY, TN CEMETERY BOOK, Vol. I . . . > there is a grave in the Old Puncheon Creek Cemetery on Long Lane in Allen > Co., KY that may be that of Lucinda's. The inscription says only "L.E. > BUTRUM, d. March 1859". I visited this very neglected and overgrown cemetery > several years ago but could not find the grave. It is my understanding much > work has been done on it since then. I have not had an opportunity to go > back to look. The year (1859) of death is about right for Lucinda's death > and I believe that is where she is buried. The distance between this > cemetery in Allen Co., KY and the Underwood Cemetery in Macon Co., TN is not > far although in different counties. Years after Lucinda died and Pleasant > remarried he gave the land for the Underwood Cemetery and his was the first > burial there. > > I really would like to communicate with you directly and exchange more > information on this family. Please get in touch with me. Are you a > descendant of Pleasant BUTRAM? If so, by which wife? > > Sincerely, > Anna Bertram > abertram@heartoftn.net