Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Mary Louise Butler ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Butler, Mary Louise
LAST: Butler FIRST: Mary MID: Louise
GENDER: F MAIDEN NAME: Bibeau TITLE: 
BORN: 25 Dec 1859 DIED: 17 Aug 1940 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

1900 MA CENSUS - Louise M. Butler (b Dec 1859, Mass, mother of 7 children, 6 living at time of census)  enumerated with husband   Charles F. (b May 1859, New York, married 20y, occupation brass finisher)and 6 children, Charles F. (b June 1880, Conn), Mary L. (b July 1883, Conn), Mable I. (b Aug 1885, Conn), Frank (b Jan 1890, Mass), Louis (b June 1892, Nebraska) and Fannie (b Nov 1896, Iowa); also with family were 2 brothers-in-law [brothers of Louise], Frank P. Bibeau (b May 1874, Mass) and Louis N. Bibeau (b July 1869, Mass)

1920 IA CENSUS - Mary Butler (60y, b Pennsylvania) enumerated with husband   Charles F. (60y, b Mass, occupation machinist) and 3 children, Mable I. (34y, b Conn), Frank (29y, b Conn) and Louis (27y, b Nebraska)

  

OBITUARY: 

Louise Butler, at a local hospital, age 80 years. Survived by sons, Frank and Louis Butler, of route 1, Salem; daughters, Mrs Lee Wynn of North Bonneville, Wash, and Mrs George Wynn of Jefferson, SD; sister, Mrs Emma Pinard of Gary, SD; brothers, Frank P. and Louis N. Bibeau, both of San Diego, calif; also six grandchildren. Graveside services will be held Tuesday, at 2 pm, at Zena cemetery, in charge of Clough-Barrick company.

Oregon Statesman, Tuesday, August 20, 1940, page 5

Zena – Graveside services for Mrs Louise Bilbeau Butler, 80, of Zena were held at Zena cemetery Tuesday afternoon. Louise Bibeau was born at Philadelphia, Pa, December 25, 1859. In July 1880 she married Charles Butler and made her home at Meridian, Conn. In 1920 she and her family moved to Oregon, where she since resided. Of the seven children only four survive, Mabel Butler Wynn, Jefferson, SD; Frank Butler, Salem, route 1; Louis Butler, Salem, route 1 and Fanny Butler Wynn, North Bonneville. Two brothers and one sister also survive. Mrs Butler was stricken with paralysis in the fall from which she never recovered.

Oregon Statesman, Friday, August 23, 1940, page 22

INSCRIPTION: 

Mary Louise Butler
Dec. 25, 1859
Aug. 17, 1940

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs
OSBH DC (Marion County 1940) #712

1900 MA CENSUS (Hampden Co, Springfield, ED 591, sheet 18B)

1920 IA CENSUS (Woodbury Co, Sioux City, ED 222, sheet 21A)

OS, 20 Aug 1940, page 5

OS, 23 Aug 1940, page 22 

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