Earliest ancestor – Aaron Butler b. abt. 1770. He appears in Newberry Co., SC in 1790 with a female and no children. He married Jane Pitts. (His birthyear was determined through 1790-1830 census information.) Jane Pitts Butler named in the 1803 will of her father, Henry Pitts. George W. Butler was named in the LW&T of Aron Butler, June 1831; in Macon County, NC, with siblings Moses Butler, Elizabeth Butler Sims, Cealy Butler Stansel/Stancil; and Elihugh Butler . George W. b. abt. 1800 married Rachel abt. 1818. George W. , Rachal and children were in Georgia by 1834, where they appeared on a Georgia Tax list. The couple had 7 children. Bible record still exists. Their son Aaron Atkins b. 1825 married Rebecca Pedan. He died in the Civil War in 1862. Aaron Butler married Rebecca Pedan in January, 1851, in Cobb County,Ga. ; was on the 1860 US Census of old Milton County, Georgia. He has a CSA file with the Georgia Dept of Archives. They had 5 children. Their son Samuel Irving Butler, b. July 1857. He married Frances Rebecca Stewart of Cobb County, Ga. Family found in Roswell, Georgia census records . He died in 1912 in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia. Georgia Death Certificate. They had a family of 4 children. Their son William Andrew b. February ,1880 in Roswell, Georgia. He married Addie Jamison in Fulton Co.,Ga., and died in Sept 28, 1946 in Osceola, Arkansas. They had a family of 6 children. Their son , William Irvin Butler, b. 1912 TN, d. March 2007 in California. William married Joyce . They had a family of 3 children. William Irvin Butler, Jr. was born in Tennessee and married Dee. No children.