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Show Brotner Taylor at the office stand. On coming out, I awoke at the east ena of the Temple. The uream was so pl~in it almost seemed a reality. I arose early ana wrote it down. March 4, 1939 I will now write some history of my mother and her parents, John Lowe nutler, and Caroline Farozine Butler. They lived at Calawell, Missouri. The items ha.ve been related to me by my mother and gr&ndmother ana others. John Lowe Butler aied at Spanish Fork on April 10, 1861. His wife died August 4, 1875 at my mother's home at Panguitch, Utah. They joined the L. D. S. Church at an early date, lived at Calawell County, Missouri in 1837, lived at Nauvoo from 1841 to 1844. While living at rlauvoo, Jolm Lowe Butler was one of the body guards of the Propnet Joseph Smith. On one occasion they were camping in the timber in an isolated spot to keep out of the way of a mob. Joseph Smith came to .uutler and said, "John, you go home and remove your family before night-fall.n Butler went to his home, borrowed a yoke of oxen and the running gears of a w&gon, took a little bed.aing ana some food ana went out into the timber ana camped. After darlr, a mob came to his home. .Not finding anyone there, they were so enragea that they burnea his home and builaings, killed cows, pigs, ~nd all livestock on the place. James Thompson, later of the Mormon Battalion, said there was an election at ~~uvoo. Aoout 200 men had gathered at the Place and aecid.ed that they woula not allow the Mormons to vote. He said John Butler got an oak stick about eight feet long with a root on the ena, tnen went through the crowa Knocking men right and left. The crowd dispersea and Butler saiQ, "i~ow boys come and vote. !t John Lowe Butler was fearless ana stooa for justice. - 7 - |
