Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Bute, Joseph July 27, 1812 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 319
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    Joseph Bute, of Scotch descent, was born at Upper 
Middleton, Menallen township, Fayette county, Penna, July 
27, 1812, and is a son of John Bute and Mary Morrison Bute.
    Joseph Bute, great grandfather, was born in Scotland; 
was a soldier under General Braddock, and was one of the 
survivors of Braddock's defeat.  When his term of enlistment 
was out, he settled in Virginia and was married there.  The 
result of the marriage was one child: a son.  
    Joseph Bute, paternal grandfather, was born in Virginia 
and married a Miss Dick of Virginia, and when he died left 
two sons and two daughters.
    Joseph Bute, father, was born in Virginia in 1785.  When 
a small boy he removed with his mother and stepfather to 
near Wheeling, but at sixteen years of age left home on 
account of his stepfather's idleness.  After working three 
years, he removed to Upper Middleton, then known as 
"Plumsock" and engaged for a time as bar-tender with his 
uncle, Henry Dick.  William
    He soon purchased the Pierce farm in Franklin township 
where in 1829 he built a sawmill and grist mill.  He died in 
1857.
    In 1808 he married Miss Mary Morrison, daughter of 
Joseph Morrison.  They had the following children: 
Washington Bute, born May 30, 1809, married Hope Rosser, now 
living in Ford county, Illinois; Madison Bute, born February 
20, 1811, died 1885, was married to Mariah Humbert, who died 
in 1842, then to Lutelia Black; now living in Iowa; Joseph 
Mephibosheth Bute, died in infancy; John Bute, born 
September 11, 1815, married Nancy Crop, lives in Illinois 
where his wife died in 1889; Jane Ann Bute, born June 20, 
1817, married Benjamin Archibald (dead); Cyrus Bute, born 
September 26, 1819, married first to a Miss Winey, then to 
Margaret Gibson, they live in Warren county, Illinois; 
Jefferson Bute and Monroe Bute, twins, born January 26, 
1822, Jefferson married Rebecca Crop (dead); Monroe married 
Elizabeth Ball (dead, widow lives in Hastings Nebraska (?); 
Andrew Jackson Bute, born May 15, 1824, married Martha 
McLaughlin (dead); William M Bute, born July 10, 1826, 
married Ellen Woods, reside in Page county, Iowa; Franklin 
Bute, born August 24, 1829, married Mariah Huston, and lives 
in LaSalle county, Illinois.  
    Joseph Bute received a very good education and when 
twenty five years old removed from the Phillips farm to the 
farm he now owns in Franklin township.  He was married in 
April, 1837, to Sarah Ann Sparks, daughter of Isaac Sparks 
of Perry township.  She died March 29, 1838.  They had one 
child, Jackson Bute, born February 3, 1838, and is now 
living near Grand Ridge, Illinois.
    Mr Bute's second wife was Miss Clarissa Black, daughter 
of Willliam Black of Perryopolis, and she died February 17, 
1875.  They were married June 1, 1839.  They had the 
following children: John Bute, who died at two years of age; 
William Franklin Bute, married Mary Smith, is a merchant of 
Vanderbilt; Horatio S Bute, maried Elisabeth Oglevee, 
daughter of Jesse Oglevee, now in Page county, Illinois; 
Sarah Jane Bute, married Isaac S Byers, lives near Aurora, 
Nebraska; Arabella Bute, married James E McMullan, is at 
Grand Ridge, Illinois; Susan E Bute, married Robert 
McBurney; Joseph Pierce Bute, married Emma Strickler, 
daughter of Samuel S Strickler, leaves near Aurora, 
Nebraska; Mary Clarissa Bute, married Rev D H McKee, now 
pastor of Bridgeville M E church, Allegheny county, Penna; 
George C Bute married Sarah Strickler, daughter of Joseph 
Strickler; C L V Bute, Cora S Bute, and Olive E Bute.  
    Joseph Bute has always been a democrat and has been a 
member of the Baptist church for forty seven years.  He has 
been clerk of the Flatwoods Baptist church since 1862, and 
deacon since 1863.
    He inherited one hundred acres of land, by good 
management has increased it to five hundred acres, besides 
owning a tract of 320 acres near Aurora, Nebraska.  He is 
engaged largely in stock raising.

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