My earliest known ancestor is James Butler who lived in Greenbrier Co., VA (WV) and is first mentioned in county records as having lived there before Jan. 01, 1782. James and his family moved to Gallia Co., OH in 1803. I descend from his son Thomas Butler who was born in Greenbrier Co. Thomas moved with his family to Gallia Co., OH. where he married Mary Robinson. They then moved to Owens then Greene Co., Indiana where he was a delegate to the Indiana State Constitutional Convention in 1850/51. His son George Washington Butler was born in Ohio and died in Sullivan Co., IN. His son Joseph Christy Butler moved his family to Jefferson Co., Nebraska where my Butler's stayed for the next 3 generations.