(1) Hij is getrouwd met Mary E. Clark.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 8 april 1884 te Bradford County, Pennsylvania, hij was toen 32 jaar oud.
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(2) Hij is getrouwd met Ellen Atwood.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 31 december 1872 te Bradford County, Pennsylvania, hij was toen 21 jaar oud.
History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, with Biographical Sketches
By H. C. Bradsby, 1891
Biographical Sketches pp. 685-694
ELLIHU BUTTLES, farmer and stock grower, of Orwell township, P. O. South Hill, is a son of Jarves and Sarah Ann (Horton) Buttles, and was born in Orwell township, November 28, 1851. Jarves Buttles was one of the prominent citizens of his day, and was born in Connecticut, October 16, 1800; he was twice married - the first time, October 21, 1828, to Alma Cowdrey, who was born August 19, 1805, and died July 2, 1843. By this marriage there were the following children: Otis J., born January 1, 1830, now of Herrick; Lester F., born April 2, 1831, died June, 1883; Emily J., born October 28, 1832, married to Leroy Hathway; Harlow J., born May 17, 1834; Samuel F., born January 5, 1836, died May 14, 1884 (was a member of the One Hundred and Forty-first Regiment, and received a gun-shot wound in the back, at the battle of Gettysburg, which finally caused his death); Eliza M., born October 20, 1838, married to Thomas Smith; Juliana born December 10, 1840, died January 12, 1860; Elizabeth A., born December 12, 1842, married to G. M. Prince. For his second wife he married, March 7, 1848, Sarah Ann Horton, born October 8, 1816, a daughter of John Horton, of Rome, and by this union there are two children, viz.: Levisa, born May 27, 1850, married to Jason Forbes, and Ellihu; the mother of these children died August 7, 1881; and father October 5, 1890. Jarves Buttles came to Orwell township in February, 1817; he was a manufacturer of wooden bowls, and built a factory; he was an eloquent Methodist preacher, and the first justice of the peace in this section. He performed many marriage ceremonies and received all kinds of payments; there is a gentleman yet living in this county who split two hundred fence rails for Mr. Buttles to pay for his marriage ceremony. He was elected to the office of county commissioner; he was postmaster of South Hill over forty years, that office never having been out of the Buttles family. Ellihu Buttles was born and reared on the farm he now occupies, and attended the district school until nineteen years of age, securing a good common-school education. He engaged in farming on his pleasant place, containing about forty acres, a part of the old homestead, which at one time contained over two hundred acres. He has been twice married, the first time December 31, 1872, to Ellen Atwood, daughter of George Atwood. She dying February 16, 1883, Mr. Buttles was married April 8, 1884, to Mary E., daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Barnes) Clark, of Standing Stone, who had a family of six children, of whom Mrs. Buttles is the eldest, born April 26, 1862; her youth was spent in Standing Stone, where she received her earlier education, and she afterward attended the Towanda Collegiate Institute; then at seventeen years of age she commenced teaching, which profession she followed several years. To Mr. and Mrs. Ellihu Buttles has been born one child, Dora M. Mr. Buttles is a Republican in politics.
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