All suggestions will, I am sure, be appreciated. Now we are trying to help them a bit with the task. We owe a great debt of gratitu6de to Becky & Gus for shouldering this burden almost alone for more than the past decade. Thus has begun the use of just a few of the abilities & talents of the Buttram clan, with more to be discovered. David Buttram of Independence, Missouri, will print our newsletter or "Buttram Journal."Īll of this would not be possible without the computerized list compiled by Don & Melissa Buttram of Little Rock. His address is Route 8 Box 618, Gadsden, Alabama. He will help us form a permanent organization. Walden Buttram, an attorney, has accepted the position of acting president & treasurer of the Buttram Family Association. You ought to make your plans to be there next year. If you're on this mailing list of Buttrams & haven't been able to come or haven't been able to come lately, you're missing a gold mine of story telling-some true-& singing & fellowship. There may have been others that I have missed. Ben Burttram, Ruth Buttram Dees, Jewel Butler, Ella Millwood, Lewis Buttram, Conway Burttram, Jr, Lee Buttram, Mary Buttram Young & many others.Īnd last year (1982) there were people there I believe from Louisiana, California, Arkansas & Florida. Buttram, Jr, John Buttram & John II, Mrs. There were so many Buttrams there from Alabama I wouldn't attempt to name them all. My wife & I (Jack Buttram) represented Kansas & I come from the John Elijah branch of the tree. Arkansas was represented by Jerome Butram, wife & son, Don, along with his wife Melissa & daughter. Also, his cousin, Deborah, from the same state & descent.įrom Georgia we had Becky Townsend & her uncle who are from the John Elijah branch. (There was also an Abraham-no shortage of Bible names.) These folks are a great help with the genealogy for the Buttrams who don't know where they fit in on the tree.Ī descendant of Pleasant Buttram attended from Indiana, Wayne Buttram & wife. They are descended from yet another brother in that early family of William's-Jacob. Missouri sends the Archie Buttrams & Fern Malteberger with her husband, Jim. The James Keys from the same line & state were "1st timers" in 1983 also. The William Turners, also from Oklahoma, were in attendance for the 3rd year. They went from Kentucky to Indiana to Missouri & finally wound up in Oklahoma. This branch of the Buttram clan is descended from William I's son Cornelius, a brother to the William who fought in the Revolution. He was 80 when he died in Oklahoma City in 1966. He's about the only Buttram we know who was a certified millionnaire at age 32. They are 2nd cousins to Frank Buttram, who was a geologist & civic leader in Oklahoma, married a preacher's daughter. Newcomers to the reunion in 1983 were the Macys, Ruby & her brother. From Texas also came Jarman & Lorene Buttram representing "the Pea Ridge Branch." The John Buttrams from Dallas, from the John Elijah clan, came again this year. & Bennie Lou Buttram Scotts from Memphis, who are from the John Elijah branch of the family. Sam Key & wife from the John Elijah line. From Tennessee, Donald Buttram, descended from Jacob, a brother of William mentioned above. Buttrams, from South Carolina, descended from John Elijah, descended on the reunion for about the 4th or 5th year in a row, & ate more chicken than ought to be lawful. Also Theo Sneed, a descendant of John Elijah & a son of the Revolutionary War Vet, William, returned this year. Phillip Buttram, from Virginia, descended from Andrew, a son of William the Revolutionary War Veteran. I will give you a list as I can remember them, but it is certain to be incomplete. I did not make a list of the people who attended the Buttram reunion, so it would be impossible to name them all. Clair County, Alabama, but moved to Topeka & got stuck there permanently, writes these notes about the folks who attended the 1983 gathering. The Buttrams come from as near as "up the road a piece," & as far away as California. Presiding over this unlikely gathering of kinsfolk from near & far are Gus & Becky Buttram, directors, caretakers & general factotums of the camp which is an officially designated facility for the handicapped in Alabama. The last weekend in July has, for about the last 14 years or so, been the gathering time for the clan called Buttram, Butrum, Burtram, Mertram, Burtt-Ram or Bertrand (if your taste runs to fancy French.) The place is Camp Maxwell in the environs of Haleyville, Alabama-the sovereign state of Winston (another story known & loved mainly by North Alabamians.) That's where the Buttram "lode" is, that's where we strike gold every July. This information was originally on the profiles for William Buttram, Jr. Rather than crowd profiles with letters and family reunion information, it has been placed here. This space contains additional information about the Buttrum/Bertram Family.
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