Charles Butler

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Title

Charles Butler

Section

Lot

Grave

01

First Name

Last Name

Birth Date

[Not on the marker]

Birth: Year

Death Date

07/13/1880

Death: Month

07

Death: Day

13

Death: Year

Age at Death

77? years

Gender

Number of Persons on Marker

Composition

Condition

Shape

State

Legibility

Poor

Dimension: Height

65 inches

Dimension: Width

26 inches

Source of Information

Information taken from Westwood Printout and grave marker, if available; check the original burial register at city hall for additional data

Comments

Hard to read - possibly says - lived 77 years "Oberlin" -carved in lower right hand corner

Biographical Information

A brief biography in William E. Bigglestone, They Stopped in Oberlin: Black Residents and Visitors of the Nineteenth Century (Scottsdale, AZ: Innovation Group, 1981).

Burial Date from Printout

07/21/1880

Burial: Month

Burial: Day

21

Burial: Year

Lot Owner

Butler, Nancy

Date Transcribed

05/30/1999

Default Latitude

41.28359889

Default Longitude

-82.23614049

Default Zoom Level

20

Collection

Citation

“Charles Butler,” Westwood Database, accessed May 16, 2024, https://www.oberlinwestwood.org/omeka/items/show/56892.

Output Formats

Geolocation