Nathaniel Butler was also known as N. G. Butler. Nathaniel Butler was born on 25. Mar. 1828 at Adair County, Kentucky. He was the son of
Champness Butler and
Amanda S. Cheatham. Nathaniel Butler married
Myra S. Smith on 5. Oct. 1864. Nathaniel Butler married
Susan Cownover, daughter of
Peter Tilton Conover and
Ann Rucker, on 9. Nov. 1875.
Nathaniel Butler and
Susan Cownover appeared on the census of 12. Jun. 1880 at District 1, Adair County, Kentucky.
Nathaniel Butler was shown in the census on 12. Jun. 1880 as a farmer.
BIOGRAPHY: Lieut Nathan G. Butler was born in Adair County, March 25, 1828, within 400 yards of where he now resides, and is the eldest of twelve children, eleven of whom are yet living, born to Champness and Amanda S. (Cheatham) Butler, the former a native of Adair County, Kentucky., and the latter of
Virginia. They were of Welsh and Irish descent respectively. Champness Butler was born March 10, 1799; was engaged in agricultural pursuits all his life and
died on the homestead where he was born (which he also owned after his father's death), June 09, 1867, in his sixty-eighth year. He and wife were devoted
memvers of the Christian Church. His father, John Butler, the grandfather of our subject, was a native of Maryland, and was born in 1769. While yet a young man, during or soon after the Revolutionary war, he immigrated to Kentucky, first sttling in the upper part of the state in the blue-grass county, then a part of
Green, where he bought wild land, andimproved the farm upon which he resided until his death, in 1839, in his seventieth year. During the war of 1812 he was
the captain of a band of scouts on the frontier, and during the Black Hawk war commanded a company in the militia. Mrs. Amanda S. (Cheatham) Butler, was born May 01, 1805, and departed this life September 03, 1883. Her father, Edmund Cheatham, was born and reared in Virginia, where he was also married and engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 1808 he came to Kentucky, first settling in Cumberland County, but afterword removing tp Adair County, where he resided
until his death, in 1836, in his seventy-second year. He was a life-long and zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Lieut. Nathan G. Butler received his earrly education at the old field schools, but has since acquired a practical business education. He has always lived on or near the old home farm
in Adair County, one-third of which he now owns, in addition to other lands amounting in the aggregate to nearly 200 acres, and is successfully engaged in
farming and stock raising. In the fall of 1861 he helped to recruit Company B, Thirteenth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry (Federal),and at the organization of the
company in the following October was elected forst lieutenant and served as such until July 11, 1864, when he resigned on account of failing health. He
partcipated in the battles of Shiloh, Perryville, the siege and battles of Knoxville, Resaca, Kenasaw Mountain, Atlanta and many other engagements.