Posted by Kaye Watson on Genforum, 12 Oct 2000.

...I found this in the History of Perry County biographical sketches, p. 357:

BUTTS, WILLIAM H., blacksmith, Shawnee, Ohio, was born January 10, 1851 in Mount Sterling, Muskingum County, Ohio; son of Mechach and Phoebe (Burley) Butts. Remained in his native town until 1861 when, with his father, he went to Morgan county, Ohio and worked on a farm until he was eighteen years of age when he went to his trade with Edward Addison, near Porterville, Morgan County, Ohio and remained one years, when he went to Portersville, Perry County, Ohio, where he worked with his brother-in-law, Mr. Brock, with whom he completed his trade. During this time he worked three years at four dollars per month, after which he went to Deaverton, Morgan County Ohio, with his brother-in-law where he remained for six months, when he came to Shawnee and worked for Finley B. McGrew three years, going from there to the Fanny furnace and took his present position. Mr. Butts was married November 14, 1877 to Harriet Pettet, daughter of Thomas and Jane Pettet of Perry County, near Porterville Ohio. They are the parents of one child, viz.: Delmer Clyde, deceased.