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(My sincere thanks to Steve Strickland for the information he furnished on this family.)
Miller Creed Butler was born May 31, 1825 in Tennessee. He was the youngest of four children born to Taliaferro Butler and Mary "Polly" Miller.
The Butler family lived in Campbell County, Tennessee until the late 1840's. At that time the family moved to Walker County, Georgia. The 1850 Walker County census shows the family in West Chickamauga Township. Miller Creed, age 25, was listed with his parents on the census.
Miller Creed married Mary Carlock on February 26, 1860, in Walker County. Mary Carlock was born about 1839, in Tennessee.
The 1860 Walker County census shows Miller Creed, age 34, and wife Mary, age 21, living with his widowed father in the Eighth District, Rock Spring Post Office. Also living with the family are John B. Butler, age 18, and Joseph G. Butler, age 16.
Miller Creed is said to have raised his great-niece, Hannah Stanfield. Hannah's mother, Mary Catherine (Bridgman) Stanfield (Miller Creed's niece) died in 1861 when Hannah was born. Hannah's grandmother (Mary Catherine's mother), Jane (Butler) Bridgman, who was Miller Creed's sister, took the infant Hannah to raise. Jane, however, died the following year and it is said that Miller Creed and his wife Mary raised Hannah.
The 1880 Walker County census, Peavine Township, shows Miller C. Butler, 55, a farmer; Mary, wife, 41; Phebe C., daughter, 15; Elizabeth S., daughter, 12; Lydia, daughter, 10; Eva W., daughter, 8; and John H., son, 3 years old.
Mary died June 19, 1886 and is buried in the Barron Cemetery at Pond Spring, near Chickamauga, Georgia.
The 1900 Walker County census, Militia District No. 944, Peavine, shows Miller C. Butler, 75, born May 1825, in Tennessee, a farmer who owned his farm; Lydia, daughter, 28, born December 1871, in Georgia; and Minnie, daughter, 19, born October 1881, in Georgia.
Miller died September 24, 1900 and is buried in the Chickamauga Cemetery.
Miller Creed and Mary had eight children.
Children of Miller Creed Butler and Mary Carlock
1. Sarah Jane Butler, b. Jan 7, 1864, Walker Co, GA; d. Oct 19, 1864, Walker Co; probably bur. in Barron Cem
2. Phebe C. Butler, b. Nov 13, 1865, Walker Co, GA; d. Apr 11, 1890; m. Thomas Bonds
3. Julia Butler, b. June 28, 1867, Walker Co, GA; d. Oct 13, 1868, Walker Co; probably bur. in Barron Cem
4. Elizabeth Sylar Butler, b. 1867, Walker Co, GA
5. Lydia Butler, b. Dec 1870, Walker Co, GA
6. Eva W. Butler, b. 1872, Walker Co, GA; m. Dr. Will Henderson
7. John H. Butler, b. May 25, 1878, Walker Co, GA; d. Aug 19, 1898
8. Minnie Butler, b. Oct 1880, Walker Co, GA; d. abt 1970; m. John Rowland (a longtime Probate Judge in Walker Co, GA)