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- William BUTEN was born in Hancock, Berkshire Co.,
Mass., May 16, 1823, and
- passed away April 11, 1914, aged 90 years 10 months and 25
days.
- He was the youngest of nine children and the last of the
family. His mother died when
- he was eight years old. He made his home in different places
until the spring of 1854 when he came to Wisconsin and worked
that summer for G. R. MAXSON on the farm now known as
the PAUL farm. In the fall he went east and in the spring
returned to Wisconsin. For some time he made his home with
his brother Orin just west of the Newville bridge. Then for
a long period he lived with his brother George. For more than
eleven years he was cared for in the home of Orson C. GARTHWAITE.
- Mr. BUTEN was a member of the Utica Seventh day Baptist
church until he came to
- Milton Junction, when he joined the church of his faith in
this place.
- An humble, earnest, prayerful spirit, an unswerving faith
in the mercy and goodness of
- God; a fondness for the truths of God's Word as his well-worn
Bible attests, were characteristics prominent in his whole life.
- His funeral was conducted at the home of Orson C. GARTHWAITE,
Sunday
- afternoon April 12. Rev. Henry N. Jordon assisted by a
male quartet from the Seventh-day Baptist church had charge of
the services. Interment was made in the Milton Junction cemetery.
[Thursday edition, p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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