Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed.,
Carroll Co.

JOHN W. BUTTS was born in Carroll County, Ky., June 9, 1840, and is the
youngest of five children born to George C. and Mary (Whitehead) Butts,
natives respectively of Culpeper County, Va., and Carroll County, Ky.
John Butts, the paternal grandfather, was a native of Ireland, but came
from Virginia to Kentucky between 1800 and 1805, and settled on the old
Boone road, four miles east of Carrollton.  George C. Butts was born in
1798, was a farmer, and died March 6, 1871.  Our subject's maternal
grandfather, John Whitehead, was a pioneer of Carroll County, and served
in the war of 1812 as captain.  His settlement was also four miles east
of Carrollton.  John W. Butts was reared a farmer, but at the age of
twenty-two, in September, 1862, enlisted in Col. Giltner's Fourth Kentucky
Cavalry, Confederate service, was made first corporal, and served until
the close of the war, taking part in the engagement at Cynthiana, Ky.,
the siege of Knoxville, and several other severe encounters, and was with
Gen. John H. Morgan at his death.  In January, 1871, Mr. Butts married
Miss Susan Cox, daughter of Benjamin and Ellen (Barrett) Cox, of Carroll
County, and there have been born to him four children: Willard, Forrest,
Mary and Anna.  Mr. Butts resides on his farm of 180 acres, on mile and
a half northeast of Carrollton.

Butts Whitehead Giltner Morgan Cox Barrett
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Culpeper-VA Ireland

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