Oldest known ancestor is Francis Marion Butler who allegedly married Elizabeth (Coker) Wilson in Marion County, Arkansas during the early 1870s. They had a son, George William "Willie" Butler, born May 30, 1875, probably at Yellville, Marion Co., AR. Willie Butler married Flora Susan Branscum on November 1, 1893 in Stone Co., AR, and they had 11 children. Youngest child, Ted Dolphus Butler, born September 3, 1912, in Wauhillau, Cherokee Co., OK, and now a resident of South Texas, is the only surviving child of Willie Butler.