When Porter Pliny Butts was born in February 1838, in New York, United States, his father, Lyman C. Butts, was 29 and his mother, Sarah Nims Porter, was 24. He married Fanny Jane Andrews in 1861, in Wayne, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Cortlandville, Cortland, New York, United States in 1855 and Sodus, Wayne, New York, United States for about 10 years. He died in 1905, at the age of 67, and was buried in Lyons Rural Cemetery, Lyons, Wayne, New York, United States.
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variant of Butt , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
topographic name from Middle English buttes, either a reference to the short ridges of plowed land at the edge of a common arable field, or the plural form of butt ‘tree stump’ or ‘mound, hillock, archery butt’. See Butt 2.
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