Parley Rogerson Butt
Born: 29 January 1862 at Parowan, Iron, Utah, USA
Parents: Urian Butt and Bridget Rogerson
Married: Ency Camilla Bayles, 24 Mar 1882 at St. George, Washington, Utah, USA
Died: 22 Nov 1940 at Dove Creek, Delores, Colorado, USA
Ency Camilla Bayles
Born: 1 Mar 1864 at Parowan, Iron, Utah, USA
Parents: Herman Daggett Bayles, Sr., and Dorothea Jensen
Died: 11 Oct 1897, Verdure, San Juan, Utah, USA
LIFE SKETCH OF PARLEY ROGERSON BUTT
Uriah Butt, shoemaker, sailed from England in 1854, after joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. On his arrival in Salt Lake City, he was sent to settle in Parowan. Bridget Rogerson came to Utah in 1856, as part of the Martin Handcart company, reaching Salt Lake City after much suffering on December 1, 1856. She was also sent to settle in Parowan. Just weeks after the company arrived in Parowan, Uriah and Bridget Rogerson were married on February 8, 1857.
They made their home at Parowan, but as the skills of a shoemaker were needed in St. George, Uriah was sent there temporarily. Their first child was a son, Willard George William born in Parowan on 29 July 1858, a daughter, Eliza, followed in 1860 who only lived eleven months. The third child was another son, Named Parley Rogerson was born 29 January 1862. In all, the Butts had eight children.
Parley, and likely Willard, had very little schooling, Parley only completing the 4th grade. The boys were expected to help support the family, and Parley took jobs in Parowan, Leeds, Tropic, Silver Reef, and freighted from Pioche, Nevada. He and Willard also ran dairies on Cedar Mountain.
On April 14, 1879, he left at the call of the church, in company with 26 men, 2 women and 8 children, to scout a way to San Juan for the larger company which was expected to follow that fall. This “southern expedition” suffered a great deal from shortage of water. They crossed the Colorado river at Lee's Ferry, and stopped at Moenkopi, an Indian village, for a rest. Here they met Wilford Woodruff who was on a vacation. Also John W. Young, a son of Brigham Young, who was building a woolen mill to handle wool for the Indians.
They reached the San Juan on June 1st at a place called Montezuma Ford. Two months were spent attempting to bring water from the San Juan to their new farms and establishing a pair of log homes. As August approached they departed, going down the San Juan 15 miles, then turned due north up Recapture Creek by the way of Blue Mountains to the southern base of La Sal Mountains, where they struck the old Gunnison trail west via Grand Valley, Green River, Ferron Creek and Salina, up Sevier River near Panguitch and down Little Creek Canyon to Parowan and Cedar City, having traveled 915 miles by wagon and making 275 miles of new road through an unexplored region.
When the general move came in October less than one month later, Parley, who was 17 years old, was on hand to return and made himself useful going from camp to camp assisting the women in caring for their children and with their washing and cooking. Always busy he worked along with the other men and assisted in all phases of the work.
The call came because of the depredations of the Indians on the white people settled in southwestern Utah. The Indians were coming across the river and driving horses and cattle away. The church hoped by establishing a colony to make friendship with and civilize the Indians, also to put a stop to these depredations.
Preparation for this general move had been in the making all the time the 26 scouts were out. Immediately after the return of the scouting party, 250 men, women and children, with 83 wagons, and 1, 000 cattle journeyed to the meeting place, Forty Mile Spring in the Escalante Desert. Instead of following the route taken by the 26 scouts, they took what they thought was a shorter way, via Potato Valley, down the Escalante desert, east of the Kaiparowits Plateau, across the Colorado near its junction with the San Juan, up the San Juan to its upper valley and Fort Montezuma, with the thought in mind of finding other valleys in which to make settlements. What a blunder! What a sacrifice of endurance, time and money!
Escalante was the last edge of civilization so they spent a few days there repairing and filling up their wagons and then moved on to Forty Mile Spring. From here it was necessary to explore and make a wagon road. Four men were selected for this exploring job -- William Hutchins, George Lewis, George Hobbs, and Kumen Jones. These men took pack horses and found the Colorado river 20 miles further south, but impassable because of the perpendicular cliff. Following a cart track about two miles northeast to the junction of the Escalante and Colorado rivers, a small boat that previous explorers had left was found, and they crossed the river in it, two at a time and then went on for two days 12 miles east of the river and then decided they were too low down the draw and were boxed in with box canyons, so returned to Forty Mile Spring.
Bishop Scow, James Collett, and Charles Hall arrived with a row boat on a wagon, and said they would show them the way. Ten men took this row boat to the river and crossed and took it down the Colorado River intending to take it up the San Juan, but came to a large rapid and so the river route was given up. While they were at dinner, five other men came down with packs on their backs and tried to find an overland route. Each venture made turned out to be impossible, so they went back and reported.
With the Escalante chasm on the east, Kaiparowits Plateau, a continuous cliff on the west, and twelve feet of snow on the Escalante Mountains, by which route they had come to Forty Mile Spring, and with but little feed for cattle and horses, it was a gloomy outlook. Arriving back at Forty Mile Spring, the question became was the San Juan Mission to be a failure? Many brave men and women in that camp said "no".
They pondered over the situation and wondered what they could do. George Hobbs, in whom they had lots of faith, said they could get across. Capt. Smith and Bishop Scow then expressed their faith in the judgment of Hobbs, and a unanimous vote was taken to go through.
The company then moved on to Fifty Mile Spring; part of the company remained there, but most of the party went on to the Hole-in-the-Rock. About six weeks were spent blasting and chiseling the road down to the Colorado.
On the 28th day of January, one day after Parley's 18th birthday, the wagons had gone through the Hole and been floated across the river, the horses and cattle had been forced to swim across and the company began their trip onward. At Slick Rock, it was necessary to build a road to get the wagons to the bottom. On March 1st, they reached Lake Pagharit, where food and water for the animals were plentiful. Here they rested except for a general wash day,
When they reached Clay Hill, they spent three days making a road. At the foot of Clay Hill, a blinding snow storm made it necessary to erect temporary shelter for the women and children. The men and animals suffered greatly from the cold. Through wind driven snow, they pushed on, passing through many miles of dense forest.
After about thirty days of hardship, with little to eat, and building a road and cutting a passage through the forest, doubling teams to get through the mud, they reached Comb Wash. On April 6th, 1880, the main party of the camp reached what is now the site of Bluff. Montezuma Fort was still fourteen miles further on, but in their tired and weakened condition, they decided to settle here permanently. The heat was almost unbearable in these sandstone cliffs, but there was no time to waste as irrigation ditches must be made, land plowed and planted to crops. As soon as possible a fort twenty-four rods square was built to protect them from the Indians. Soon some became discouraged and left never to return, and some, including Parley Butt went to Colorado to work for supplies to send back to sustain those who remained
During the next two years, Parley was a very busy man, making the ditch and working for supplies. Some U. S. Surveyors came through on their way to Arizona. Parley was hired by them, going as far south as Tuba City. When the job was completed, he was paid double what they had promised him, and escorted back to the San Juan River by two men. After he was s afely across the river, they waved good-bye and departed.
In making trips to the Blue and Elk Mountains after timber for sluice gates, Parley and his brother Willard discovered sites suitable for dairies and later made use of them. Never idle and with an eye to the future for new projects, they talked of future opportunities.
After eighteen months of struggle and preparation, Parley returned to Parowan in the fall of 1881, and on March 24, 1882, he and Ency Camilla Bayles were married in St. George Temple and returned to Bluff in company with Hanson Bayles, William Gurr, Bishop Jens Nielsen and Joe Nielsen, and families, via Lee's Ferry (Note: Halls Crossing is much more likely). They arrived in Bluff May 21, 1882. Parley's younger brother John was also with him. When they arrived at Bluff, Parley and his wife and his two brothers went to Recapture and raised corn, watermelons and vegetables. During the summer, Parley and Willard went to the Mountains. They dug a hole, put saw logs across the top and with one standing in the hole and the other above, they sawed lumber for floors.
That winter they lived in the fort in the north east corner next to Bishop Nielsen. On January 28th, 1883, their first child was born.
During one of these first years, Parley and Willard ran a dairy at Cottonwood. Charles Walton, Jr. helped them milk cows. Parley was the first to leave the fort and build a home, a neat two room log cabin with a fire place in the north end. This was built on the northeast corner of Block 11, across the street west from where Bishop Jens Nielsen afterwards built. On May 1st, 1884, a son John Parley was born.
During the summer of 1885, Parley with his wife and two children and brother Willard went to Elk mountains and ran a dairy. The spring where they dairied is still known as Butt Spring. While there, Mancos Jim, a Ute, with about fifty of his followers declared, "If you are not gone in ten days, when we return we will kill you," and then stopped and asked, “You go?" Parley replied, “No, Mancos, no go."
In ten days they returned and found the party still there, where they remained until fall.
In the fall of 1886, Parley's wife and three children went to Parowan with Fred Adams and his mother. On their return, Grandfather Bayles, Parley's father-in-law, and the John Rogerson family, also William Rogerson came back with them by way of Price. On Christmas Day Parley met them at Verdure. He had a deer hanging on a tree with which to feed them. They reached Old Mustang Camp Grounds on Christmas night. A heavy snow storm was failing, and in order to protect Grandfather Bayles, Parley dug a square hole and put Grandfather's bed in it, and covered the hole with a canvas tarpaulin. The next morning the party went on to Bluff, where they remained for the winter. April 16th, 1886, Estella was born. Ditch working and freighting continued until the spring of 1887, when Parley, with F. I. Jones, Fred Adams, George Adams, and Charles Walton, Jr. were called to make a settlement at the foot of the Blue Mountains. This mesa, later called Monticello, was to be the site of the town. On March 12, 1887, these men surveyed a ditch for carrying irrigating water but found it impossible to get it completed for that year's crop. Therefore, they decided to stay at South Montezuma, later called Verdure, where the water was easily diverted from the creek.
On April 13th, N. A. Decker, F. I. Jones, and Parley Butt, turned the entire stream out of South Montezuma Creek for irrigation purposes, and commenced plowing and planting. Soon they returned to Bluff for their families, but before coming back Parley went to Durango for a load of freight. The others waited for his return before moving to their new home.
During this summer, these men built a good log room, chicken coop, corrals and a cellar, pig pens and stable and enclosed 140 acres with a good fence. The Adams family ran a dairy up the Creek two miles west while F. I. Jones, Parley Butt and Alvin Decker remained at the present site of Verdure, where these improvements were made.
They raised oats, wheat, barley, hay and vegetables. They lived in tents that summer and in the fall they returned to Bluff for the winter.
At this same time, Mrs. George Adams gave birth at the Adams milk ranch to a little girl which lived only 24 hours. A lonely little grave on the hill, shaded by a cedar tree, is mute evidence to the lack of medical help. Parley was out riding with some of these cowboys at this time. F. I. Jones took his family and the Butt family to the Adams ranch, where Ency Butt stayed and cared for the infant all night. Her children cuddled around her in fear, for that very day an Indian named "Old Wash" had come and said a white man had been struck by lightning at the foot of the mountains about a mile further west. When Ency asked if it was Parley, he said "No Savy". During the night Parley and several cowboys came in a drenching rain storm and knocked on the cabin door. Ency with the mother and babe and her children to worry over said, "Who is there?" What a relief to hear the words, "P. R. Butt and some cowboys wanting to escape this downpour. They had found the dead Hopkins and decided to find out how the settlers were, Parley intending to proceed down the Creek to his family. Hopkins had been shot and the Indians afterwards told how they had caught him unawares and shot him from the back. His grave still can be seen with a rock to mark the spot. (Now fenced in)
After going to Bluff that fall, in December, Mary M. Jones, (Mrs. F. I. J.) gave birth to a daughter, Minnie, and the following April, a daughter, Eva Dorothy, was born to Ency Butt.
On the 31st of January, 1888, the wife of Hansen Bayles, in Bluff, gave birth to a daughter and died. This brought great sorrow to Parley and his wife because they had been so closely associated. She was Ency’s sister-in-law. In the spring of 1888, those called to settle moved back. F. I. Jones and others came on to Monticello, but Parley Butt remained at Verdure to farm the land they had broken up the year before. There were now four children for Parley and Ency to provide for.
That summer he and his brother Willard ran a large dairy at Dodge, two miles south of Verdure. Assisting them were several young people from Bluff. During the day, they fenced and farmed at Verdure.
In October, Parley sent his wife and four children to Parowan to her mother, as her health had become impaired and she needed rest and medical attention.
While they were gone, he freighted for Monticello people during the winter and farmed during the summer. At Christmas of 1888, all the people of Monticello, including Parley Butt, ate New Years dinner at F. I. Jones home.
Parley met his family at the railroad at Thompson in October 1889, and brought them on to Verdure, where they settled permanently. George Adams' family also settled here.
In 1890, Joseph Nielsen, a cousin to Ency Butt, built a two room log house which was used as a store and filled with merchandise and Parley took charge of it. During the time he took care of the store, he tried to feed at his home, free gratis, everyone who came there. These would sometimes number as high as twenty people in a day. Also those passing through Verdure stopped for meals and a night's lodging.
While Ency Butt did all this work cheerfully, her young daughter grew to resent it, for while the other children romped and played, she was continually helping with the cooking and washing dishes. Drudgery was a mild word!
In July 1890, Parley and Willard brought the first saw mill into San Juan county and set it up at the foot of the Blue mountains between Verdure and Monticello. Now stores, churches and dwellings could be and were built. They furnished lumber for the first grist mill to be built in Monticello. Willard met James Baker, a sawyer, on the street at Cortez, Colo., and hired him to saw lumber, and soon a crew of men were busy. They sawed lumber for all the fine buildings in Bluff and for the Gold Queen Mining Co. They were never reimbursed by the Mining Co.
They took stock in the grist mill for lumber furnished there, and never got anything out of that. They never complained of these losses, believing some good had come from it.
As soon as the saw mill was in operation, Parley built a lumber roof over the mud roof of the three room house. He accompanied a miner, Frank Dixon, to his mine in Dixon Gulch, before he had closed the space made by the 2 x 4 between the two roofs.
A cyclone came up while the children were making mud pies in the yard. They had just got in the house when the roof was lifted and laid flat on the yard where the children had played. Imagine Parley's consternation when he arrived and saw his new roof on the ground, but he and Ency were happy over the escape of their children.
When Bishop Jones asked Parley to preside over the Verdure branch of the Monticello Ward, he hesitated because of his inexperience and suggested that George Adams act in that capacity. We were organized with efficient Sunday School, M, I. A. and Primary officers. No Ward ever progressed more than this little branch. Men, women and children participated. Our school teacher and some of the cowboys from the R. P. Hott ranch all took part in the organization. We also enjoyed entertainments and dances of high class. All of these organizations were supported financially and otherwise, since they had educational and spiritual value.
While George Adams was on a two year mission in 1900 and 1901, Parley accepted the responsibility of Presiding Elder, which position he filled to the satisfaction of all.
All of our school teachers, Edith Bayles, Lillian Decker, Belle Watson, Annie Lyman, Nellie Lasson and H. J. Martenson took a prominent part in religious and social affairs and gave us training in music and public speaking, and so on, in addition to the regular curriculum. Evelyn Adams was especially talented in chorister work. To all of these Parley often expressed his appreciation.
With George and Evelyn Adams, Parley and Ency Butt, C. L. Christensen, and wife Anne, Robert P. and Emma Holt, and some years Francis Nielson and Leona Walton, his wife, Willard Butt and Julia Nielson his wife, and the schoolteachers, children and the honorable set of cowboys located at the Hott ranch, we enjoyed life abundantly. Indeed we lived abundantly and harmoniously with Verdure as a stopping place for church authorities and also freighters, for conference visitors and students going and coming from college we had no time for being lonely. The homes were houses by the side of the road and we were friends to man.
Parley and Willard Butt made it possible for many people in San Juan County to exist. They carried beef, flour and vegetables to many newcomers, and sent supplies to friends in Bluff and Monticello. Nor were they alone in this for their wives assisted them in this labor.
While C. R. Christensen was working for Butt Bros. at the saw mill, Parley learned he desired to bring his mother and her children to the vicinity of Monticello. Parley offered him a building spot and other land if he would move to Verdure. This would augment the number of children of school age to a point where a school could be demanded at Verdure.
In April, 1893, the Christensen family arrived and the next October, our first school teacher, Edith Bayles, commenced to teach.
In 1893 the Butt family boarded a group of men from Bluff and Monticello, who had met to discuss the advisability of moving the county seat from Bluff to Monticello. The voices of Hyrum Perkins, J. B. Decker, Joseph and Francis Nielsen, R. P. Hott, F. I. Jones, Parley and Willard Butt are the ones recalled in this heated discussion. Soon after the county seat was moved to Monticello. A vote of the county had decided the question.
In 1899, he and Evelyn Adams, whose husband was on a mission, decided we needed a more advanced teacher. Parley paid $20 per month and Mrs. Adams paid $10 per month above what the school district could afford to secure the services of Hanmer Martinson. The next year he sent his oldest child (E. Lenora Butt Jones) to the branch normal at Cedar City; then two years at BYU at Provo. His oldest son went to the BYU. He offered all his children a college education if they would get profit by the experience, but there was to be no trifling. Herman U., his second son, attended L.D.S. college.
Always looking after the interests of others, he often aroused his children from bed to drive cows and calves from the garden of Mrs. Adams, where some careless person had left her gate open. His own children knew better than to leave a gate open, for he had taught them it was unforgivable.
One morning at daybreak, Joe Bush came with six prisoners he had captured on the San Juan river, and asked for breakfast. The Butt family arose. Parley killed chickens and fried them, while Ency made hot rolls, cooked the cereal, fried potatoes and made coffee. These with rich peach preserve and plenty of cream made the meal, for which only thirty-five cents was charged.
He was kind to all, especially children. One instance of this is shown in his treatment of Lell Perkins, who was brought to Verdure and expected her people from Dodge to call for her. Through some misunderstanding they didn't come. Rather than let her worry, Parley saddled his horse before doing his chores, and took her to her people at Dodge. To think a man would be so considerate made a deep impression on this eight year old girl, who told the story many times.
Parley and his brother had from the time of their arrival in San Juan County been partners in their business affairs. In the fall of 1896, they divided their property and the Verdure property all went to Parley. He moved his family to the splendid home west of the street where they lived for a year in happiness.
On Sunday, October 10, 1897, while playing with her children, Parley's wife began to cough and chill. After retiring that night, she expressed her appreciation for the new sewing machine and for the helpful attitude of the children, and dropped off to sleep. A few minutes later she went into convulsions and died about 1 A. M., October 11, of euremic poisoning.
Joseph Christensen notified the Monticello people, also the Bluff people. Platte D. Lyman, Joseph F. Barton, the Adams family and Emma Hott were present when she died. The Relief Society members of Monticello came immediately to assist and prepare her for burial.
As Hanson Bayles drove into the yard, Parley met him and they wept for the wife of one and sister of the other, who had passed on. It was nine years and nine months since Hanson had gone through the same heart rending experience. She was buried on a knoll southeast of Verdure on the 12th of October, 1897. Almost the entire towns of Bluff and Monticello attended the funeral. Platte D. Lyman, Joseph F. Barton, Bishop Jens Nielsen and others spoke at her funeral.
She had lived unselfishly. She had suffered privation uncomplainingly had given to her husband and family the best efforts possible, had taught her children faith, humility and correct principles. She was proud of her four sons and three daughters. She had been looking forward to the birth of the eight child, but it also died unborn.
The mother left Parley and seven children to mourn her passing, Ency Lenora, John Parley, Estella B., Eva Dorothy, all born in Bluff. Herman Uriah, Willard Carlton and Joseph Leo, all born at Verdure. The Adams, Christensen and Hott families encouraged and assisted us in tenderness and sympathy.
Parley was sheriff of San Juan county and was often called away from home. The hired girl of the Willard Butt family, Celestia, came to live with our family that winter to look after the children.
In the spring of 1898, Parley left to capture some bandits. About Midnight, Celestia, the maid, awoke screaming, "Your father is dead. I saw him fall wounded by a shot. They'll soon be bringing his body home." The younger children cried, while the older ones hoped it was only a dream. We gather around the heater in the dining room and closed all the doors. The string of the door lock must have been weak, for the door knob would turn and the door open slightly. No one dared look in the other rooms, but John, the oldest boy, would creep up and close the door, only to have it re-open again. Thus we sat huddled together until daybreak. We heard a buggy coming down the north dugway, and we all rushed to the front porch. As the buggy drove up, we heard the voices of Hanson Bayles and Peter Allen. These early travelers were on their way to Bluff, and stopped to eat breakfast with us. Welcome men were they, who allayed our fears and cautioned Celestia to be more careful in the future and not frighten the children by interpreting her dreams.
In December of 1898, Parley married Edith Bayles in the Manti Temple. To them were born five children, Alma, Vera, Franklin, Clark and Mildred. After they were married, Parley used psychology and sent the narrator, his oldest daughter, to Bluff to school, where she stayed with Willard Butt and family.
During the next few years, Parley still acted as school trustee. During the summer of 1900, Parley sent three of his children to the Rogerson Gulch to dairy.
On July 4th, the Monticello and Verdure people came up to the Gold Queen Mine, which was a mile distant from the dairy to celebrate. That night everybody danced on the floor of the mining mill, afterward spreading their beds on the same floor.
After they were all in bed, Leonard Scott fired a shot at Fred Hetchman, which passed through the wall near the bed of Kate Perkins and others. Although Lawlessness was dying out, there was still an occasional outcropping. No one was hurt and the two men left.
Parley and Bob Hott spent the summer of 1900-01 riding after their cattle and also took care of George Adams cattle in his absence to the southern States mission.
In the fall of 1903 Parley sold his IXL brand of cattle and all of his Verdure property, his grazing land and grazing privileges to Joseph F. Barton of Bluff and left with his wife and seven of his children to seek a new home. Previous to this time he had become dissatisfied and traveled through Idaho and Oregon trying to find a location for a new home. In Idaho he visited with his brothers Israel and John. While he was there he
found his brother Israel had settled near Blackfoot and John was at Teton. He took his family to his old home town of Parowan, where he left them while he and his two oldest sons started around over the country and finally landed back in Monticello in 1904. He had his family return went into the cattle business again and settled permanently in Monticello.
In 1910 a typhoid epidemic broke out in Monticello. Grief came to him again for his oldest son, who had been his pal, died. This year he was elected as county attorney of San Juan county. In 1912, Leo, the baby of the first family, also died.
The next year Viva, his charming daughter also died. By this time he had schooled himself to meet almost any disaster. The day before Viva died, Parley said to his wife, "She, too, is going to leave us, for I saw one of my childhood chums, "who had died", come and take her by the hand and lead her off. She turned and waved good-bye to me." This was quite a source of comfort to him.
When the Blue Mountain Irrigation Co., of Monticello conceived the idea of piping water from Pole Canyon, they asked all the stockholders of the company to mortgage their land and water to the Federal Land Bank of Berkley in order to raise the money for this project.
The company's officers promised the stockholders that the earnings from this project would take care of the mortgages. Parley, a foreseeing man said, "If you fellows want to believe that and hang a mill stone around your neck, you'll be doing a noble service to your townspeople and those who come later, but you'll pay every cent of those mortgages and never be reimbursed. It will be impossible for the expenses will be greater than the earnings." His words were verified for the company was never able to repay its debt.
Some lost their land and water, others deprived themselves of necessities and hung on to the bitter end. Those who borrowed $3,000 paid $5,850 in interest, which together with the $3,000 loan, made 8,850. The loans ranged from $500 to $3,000.
While in the cattle business the last time, during the years of 1905 to ______, he had a chance to buy a large herd of sheep, and paid a forfeit on them pending the time he could meet with his partners and arrange his affairs. These associates of his in business were enthusiastic at first, but grew faint hearted and backed out. Had they gone with him while grazing privileges were good, all could have become wealthy but the deal fell through because their outlook was dimmed. He continued in the cattle business until 1918 when he bought the store.
In 1918, he bought a store building of Mr. Stokes at Dove Creek. He stocked it with merchandise and moved there, but before the remaining members of his family were permanently settled, his 14 year old son, Franklin, died. This was one of the hardest blows to strike and he wondered what could have been done to prevent it. He said, "Out of my six splendid sons, now only three remain."
At Dove Creek, Parley made it possible for dozens of new settlers to remain and get well started toward prosperity on their farms by trusting them for supplies. Many times members of his family would protest and tell him it was a losing game, that many of these people would never pay their bills. He would answer, "They have to get off to a start, don't they?" He lost thousands of dollars in bad bills, but left his second family in good financial condition.
In November, 1933, his youngest son Clark died at Dove Creek. He remarked, "It won't be
long now until my time comes." On January 29, 1940, the members of his family all met at his
home to honor him on his 78th birthday. He ate a hearty dinner and talked of by-gone days.
Appreciatively he thanked us and we promised to make it an annual affair, but on Nov. 20th
of the same year, we were called to his bedside and two days later he died. He was buried in
the Monticello cemetery beside his three sons and daughter. He left to mourn his passing his
wife, 7 children, 19 grandchildren and 16 great grand-children.
Sources:
1. Jones, E.
Lenora Butt. Life of Parley R. Butt
2.
Jones, E. Lenora Butt and Kermit Blake. Life of Parley Butt with illustrations
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Parley Rogerson Butt
Ency Bayles Butt
Verdure, 1894
1- P. R. Butt; 2- George A. Adams;
3- Joe Nielson’s store and school house combined;
4- C. L. Christensen; 5- Willard Butt;
6- Francis Nielson.
Sawmill on Blue Mountain ca 1896
Edith Alvilda Bayles Butt