History
Teague Chronicle
Thursday February 4, 1965
Butler to Get Confederate Memorial C.S.A. Marker
The state contract for making the Confederate Memorial Information Markers for the C.S.A. Butler Soldier's Homes in Freestone County has been let by the State Building Commission. This announcement was made by the Texas State Historical Survey Committee and the State Building Commission, which are jointly responsible for their erection.
The marker, which will be erected in Butler, is made of cast aluminum with Swedish steel for durability and appearance. There are four sizes of these markers erected by the State Building Commission with research and inscriptions prepared by the Texas State Historical Survey Committee. The Official Texas Historical Medallion appears at the top with the inscription below.
Members of the State Building Commission are Governor John Connally; Attorney- General Waggoner Carr; and Charles S. Coates, Chairman of the State Board of Control.
The Confederate Memorial Information Marker for the C.S.A. Butler Soldier's Home is 27" x 42" in size and will be erected on U.S. Highway 84 in Butler, Texas.
The following information appears in the inscription: Commissioners Courts in Texas usually furnished to soldiers enlisting in the Civil War their uniforms, guns, blankets and sometimes even their horses. The County Courts also aided departments, war orphans and widows; recognized local people who had "Soldiers'
Homes" and reimbursed them for meals given men en route to and from the army on furloughs and special missions.
Freestone County had at least eleven Soldier's Homes. One of two in Butler, Texas was run by Hillary Manning, a plantation owner.
A Soldier's Home was usually set up as an act of neighborliness. The Reverend Thomas Castleton, who lived near Houston, organized many of these homes and highly commended the people of Butler, Fairfield, Goliad, and Hillsboro for setting up Soldiers' Homes of their own accord. At Christmas in 1864, Reverend Thomas Castleton received for the benefit of the soldiers donations of $100 in gold, three beef animals and two milch cows; all gifts of private citizens supporting the work. An outstanding donation was a three-story brick hotel to be used as a Soldier's Home.
Other Soldiers' Homes were located at Columbus, Crockett, Palestine and Richmond (Fort Bend County). Like many other productive activities carried on voluntarily; these homes showed the concern of Texas for her men.
The erection of Confederate Memorial Information Markers is part of the Civil War Centennial Commemoration in Texas. The markers are designed to interpret and commemorate the role of prominent Texas Confederates, battles, and military supply centers.
This marking program is part of a comprehensive five year plan of the Texas State Historical Survey Committee to record, appreciate, mark, preserve and survey Texas history. "RAMPS" as the plan is called, seeks to place 5,000 historical markers over the state in this five year period. These markers are to be sponsored through joint efforts of the state, counties, cities, civic groups, and individuals.
The Civil War in Texas is a part of the vast program to mark historical sites in Texas from archeological finds to modern industries and statesmen. Since the beginning of the Centennial marking program, 509 Texas Confederate Memorial Information Markers have been submitted for erection.
The Fairfield Recorder newspaper
Thrusday September 2, 1965
[PHOTO OF COMMITTEE MEETING ON PORCH OF HOUSE]
DEDICATION TALKED - L. L. Notey *1*, Freestone County Historical Survey Committee chairman discusses dedication of Confederate Memorial Markers at Butler. The meeting is on the front porch of Homer Edwards' whose home and store was built from lumber from the Butler Male and Female Academy. Front row, left to right.
Homer Edwards, Butler; Mrs. Roy Colbert, Oakwood; Mrs. W L. Edwards Jr, Butler;
Mrs. Ruth Holton, Butler; Mrs. Evelyn Ward, Oakwood; Miss Alliene Miller, Oakwood; Dorothy McVey, Teague. Back row, left to right, Newt Cretsinger, Butler; W. L. Edwards, Jr., Butler; Roy Colbert, Oakwood; Tom Nesbitt, Butler;
Mrs. Tom Nesbitt, Butler.
[*1* = Original newspaper misspelled his name. It should be "L.L. Notley" for
Mr. Llewllyn L. Notley.]
The Teague Chronicle newspaper
Thrusday September 9, 1965
[SAME PHOTO OF COMMITTEE MEETING ON PORCH OF HOUSE]
LLEWELLYN NOTLEY - Freestone County Historical Survey Committee
chairman discusses dedication of Confederate Memorial Markers which was dedicated Sunday. The meeting is on the front porch of Homer Edwards' whose home and store was built from lumber from the Butler Male and Female Academy.
Notley, who is shown in front, is seated with, left to right,
Homer Edwards, Butler; Mrs. Roy Colbert, Oakwood; Mrs. W L. Edwards Jr, Butler;
Mrs. Ruth Holten, Butler; Mrs. Evelyn Ward, Oakwood; Miss Alline Miller, Oakwood; Miss Dorothy McVey, Teague. Back row, left to right, Newt Cretsinger, Butler; W. L. Edwards, Jr., Butler; Roy Colbert, Oakwood; Tom Nesbitt, Butler;
Mrs. Tom Nesbitt, Butler.
MARKER DEDICATED SUNDAY AT BUTLER
A Texas Civil War memorial information marker for Butler Soldier's Homes was dedicated Sunday afternoon at Buter by the Freestone County Historical Survey Committee. The marker, erected by the Texas State Historical Survey Committee, is on U.S. Highway 84 in Butler, fifteen miles east of Fairfield.
At the ceremony, State Representative Jack Hawkins of Groesbeck gave the invocation. H.D. Whitaker of Fairfield, a member of the County Survey Committee, discussed the aims of historical marking programs for Texas. Mrs. Ed Link, Jr.,
of Palestine, whose husband is a grandson of Hillary Manning, owner of a large plantation, who operated on of the two Butler soldier's homes, gave an interesting account of early Butler history and of Hillary Manning.
Ed Link, III, a great-grandson of Hillary Manning, unveiled the marker, and George W. Fryer, County Attorney of Freestone County, gave some interesting side lights on Butler before pronouncing the benediction.
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The Fairfield Recorder newspaper
Thrusday September 2, 1965
[PHOTO OF THREE LADIES]
[Caption:] SITE OF BUTLER COLLEGE - Mrs. Ruth Holton of Butler, Mrs. Evelyn Ward and Mrs. Roy Colbert of Oakwood examining the remains of Butler Male and Female College that was begun during the Civil War and chartered in 1870. Mrs.
Ruby O'Neal, mother of Mrs. Ruth Holton, attended the college in 1865. William C. Gorham, father of Mrs. Evelyn Ward and Captain Wm. B. Waldrom, grandfather of Mrs. Roy Colvert, also attended the college.
Butler Marker Will Be Dedicated There Sunday
Butler, whose history goes back to the 1830's, will relive a little of its history, Sunday, September 5, at 2:30 p.m. when an official Confederate Memorial Information Marker will be dedicated.
The Marker, which was awarded by the Texas State Historical Survey Committee, is for the Confederate States of America Butler Soldiers' Home. The Marker will be erected on U.S. Highway 8, between Fairfield and Palestine.
Llewllyn Notley, Chairman of the Freestone County Historical Committee, will have charge of the program.
Ed Link, Jr. of Palestine, a great grandson of Hillary Manning, the owner of one of the two soldier's homes in Butler, will unveil the marker.
During the Civil War, Commissioner's Courts in Texas often recognized "Soldier's Homes" furnished by local people and reimbursed them for meals given men en route to and from the army. Freestone County had at least eleven such homes.
Two of these were in Butler. One was run by Hillary Manning, a plantation owner, and the other by William McDaniel.
Company and Texas Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Neal and Company had the 1964 [fragment lost]
At the April, 1865, term of court, drafts to the following home operators were authorized to be paid in Confederate money: J. H. Blain, J. B. Newell, W. W.
Groover, G. C. Cole, W. M. McDaniel, Sterling Sims, W. H. Compton, Wm. Blythe, H. Manning, N. L. Womack and D. H. Love.
The old town lots and streets of Butler have long since been turned into pasture land and only two stores remain. One hundred years ago Butler was known as the gateway to the Gulf Coast. There were eight stores, a post office, a cotton gin, two churches, and the Butler Male and Female Academy. Plantation owners could sit on their front porches and hear the whistles of the steamboats as they plowed up and down the Trinity River.
It is said that James Mobley, an early Butler merchant, brought the first sewing machine, the first piano and the first wax doll to Freestone County.
In 1880 the I.G. and N. Railroad missed Butler, going through Palestine and Oakwood. People began to move to the rail centers causing the decline of Butler.
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PROGRAM
DEDICATION OF HISTORICAL MARKER
BUTLER SOLDIER'S HOME
September 5, 1965
2:30 P.M.
Master of Ceremonies.............H. D. Whitaker, Member
Freestone County Historical Survey Committee
Invocation.......................Rev H. L. McKissack
Teague, Texas
Introduction of Special Guests...Mrs. Llewllyn Notley, Chairman,
Freestone County Historical Survey Committee
"RAMPS" - The State Historical Survey..Mr. H. D. Whitaker
Committee's Program for Texas
History of Butler and Butler Soldiers' Home.. Mrs. Ed Link, Jr.
Palestine
Unveiling of Historical Marker...Ed Link, III, Great Grandson of Hillary Manning
Benediction......................Rev H. L. McKissack
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