Butler-Paisley Photograph Albums

Collection

Identifier: MC 632

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Scope and Content Note

The two albums contain a total of 83 portraits of members of the extended family of Alexander Butler (1807-1881), a farmer and merchant in Tulip, Arkansas, as well as friends and a number of Methodist clergymen. Fifty-eight negatives and thirty- two 5 x 7 copy photographs made from Emma Paisley's album are also included, as well as thirty-three negatives of grave markers and buildings in Tulip, Arkansas, photographed in the 1980s.

Some of these photographs have been published in Tulip Evermore: Emma Butler and William Paisley, Their Lives in Letters, 1857-1887, edited by Elizabeth Paisley Huckaby and Ethel C. Simpson (Fayetteville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press, 1985).

Dates

ca 1829-1890s, 1980s

Creator

Butler-Paisley Family (Family)

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Access Information

Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.

Use Information

No Use Restrictions Apply.

No Interlibrary Loan.

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Biographical Note

Emma Butler Paisley (1844-1887) was the daughter of Tulip, Arkansas, farmer and merchant Alexander Butler (1807-1881), and wife of William McLean Paisley (1842-1891), also a farmer and merchant. Alexander Butler (1807-1881) (Theophilis Butler was his brother) married Mary Wyche Reavis (1813-1890). They had thirteen children:

1. Sarah Frances, born 1833, died of burns in childhood.

2. Martha Wyche ("Mattie," "M. W. Hughes"), 1833-1912, married George Hughes and had three children: Walter (born 1855), West (died in his 80s in California), and George Reavis.

3. Henry Alexander ("H. A. Butler"), 1836-1907, married Mary E. Coulter ("Mollie") and had five children: Coulter, May, Mattie, Nannie, and George. Henry was a merchant, for many years in partnership with his father.

4. Mary Jane, 1838-1891, married the Reverend George Matthews, a Methodist circuit rider who had two sons, George and Herbert, from a previous marriage.

5. Lewis Peter, 1839-1878, married Jennie Bowman and had two children: Jessie and Willard. Lewis, a lawyer, went to California for his health, but died shortly after his arrival there.

6. George Emery, 1840-1891, married Julia Moores and had nine children: Moores, Alice, Lou, George, Anna, Julia, and three more. George was a Methodist circuit rider and emigrated with his family to California in 1870.

7. Charles Albert, 1843-1924, married Kate Colburn and had eight children.

8. Emma Eliza, 1844-1886, married William McLean Paisley ("Billy"), 1842-1891, and had nine children: John Alexander, William Butler, Emma, Henry Lewis (the donor's father), Mary Eliza, Martha Wyche, Lula Grier, Annie Orr, and James Ira. William, a merchant and farmer, married Martha Oliver Bland following Emma's death. They had a son, Edward Bland.

9. John Reavis ("Johnnie"), born 1846, married Melinda Clardy ("Kellie"). John was a merchant.

10. Anna Louise ("Annie"), 1849-1880, married Olin (Groening?) Moores and had three children: Edwin, William, and Annie. Olin Moores, brother of George Butler's wife Julia, was a merchant and drummer, and married his sister-in-law Alice after Anna Louise's death.

11. Ira Wyche, born 1852, married Fannie John Smith. Ira, a merchant, also emigrated to California.

12. Alice Palmer, 1855-1886, married Olin Moores following the death of her sister Anna Louise. They had two children: Alice and Olin.

13. James Oliver, born 1857, married Maria Moores, a sister of Olin and Julia. They had three children: Walter Hughes and two others. PAISLEY FAMILY The Reverend John Paisley (died 1845) married Eliza Bradshaw (died 1880) and had two children: William McLean and Mary Ann. Following John Paisley's death, Elize ("E. D. Lipscomb") married Lorenzo Dow Lipscomb ("L. D. Lipscomb," called "Father" by William Paisley). They had five children: Willis, Claude, Emma (later Emma Lipscomb Harding), Eliza, and Ella. John Paisley's brother James married Minerva ("Aunt Minerva") and had two children: D. Lacy and J. Porter.

For further genealogical information, see Tulip Evermore: Emma Butler and William Paisley, Their Lives in Letters, 1857-1887, edited by Elizabeth Paisley Huckaby and Ethel C. Simpson (Fayetteville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press, 1985).

Extent

0.5 Linear Feet (1 box)

Additional Description

Acquisition Information

Photograph albums and photographs were donated to Special Collections by Emma Hayley Hawkins, Santa Rosa, California, through Elizabeth Paisley Huckaby, April 1985.

One album belonged to Emma Butler Paisley (1844-1887), the donor's grandmother; the other belonged to Martha Wyche Paisley Hayley (1877-1974), the donor's mother.