Do you have an Ara Bell Buttram, b. 2 May 1859, and who married a John or Jobe Anderson Swindle among your records? They were my husband Charles' g-grandparents. Jimmie Meadors R. Wayne Buttram wrote: > I am sure glad to be on this list. Yesterday I sent to the list the > surnames I am working on. I will now try to explain. Driver, Butrum, > Stinson Willis > My G G Grandmother was a Lucinda Driver b about 1812 and I dont know > where. ( a lot of Drivers in and around Macon Co. ) Lucinda was married > to a Pleasant Butrum or Butram. Pleasant was also b about 1812. My guess > right now says he was born in Barren Co. Ky. Pleasant and Lucinda had 8 > or 9 children. I have their names. I would like to know where and when > Lucinda and Pleasant were married and where Lucinda was born. The name > Stinson, Pleasant and Lucinda had a son named William Thomas Butrum . > The Macon Co. census for 1850 had him listed as Thomas. William Thomas > Butrum married a Esther L. Stinson. He was my G Grandfather and Esther > was my G Grandmother. They were both born about 1836. They married in > Dec. 1855. They had three children. William Thomas Butrum died in June > 1861. Esther left some time after that heading north. She later showed > up in Henderson Co. Ky. and a marriage bond dated July 20 1880 married a > Silas Burk. To confuse matters even more the bond shows she married > under the name of Esther Willis. I know a little about Burk. I know > nothing about the person named Willis.Esther in 1882 was living in > Evansville, In.where she died in Nov. 1911.Her son James R. Buttram was > my grandfather. He was born in 1856 Macon Co. Tn. died in Evansville. > 1939. When I was very small grandpa said that when they left Tn. heading > north they walked most of the way, getting a ride once in a while on a > wagon. He at that time would be 5 or 6 years old. I didnt mean to write > a book on this but I have been working on this for 18 years and hardly > know anything. Last year in June I visited Underwood Cemetery in Macon > Co . Pleasant is buried there. Lucinda is not there. Esher said William > Thomas was buried in Macon Co. Havent found his or Lucindas grave. Any > information on any of these folks will be greatly appreciated. > R. Wayne Buttram