Ethel Grace Butler

Brief Life History of Ethel Grace

When Ethel Grace Butler was born in July 1875, in Kansas, United States, her father, Ishmael Walter Butler, was 19 and her mother, Laura Lillian Higgins, was 18. She married George Harvey Kesterson in 1891, in Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Sycamore, Multnomah, Oregon, United States in 1920 and Multnomah, Multnomah, Oregon, United States for about 1 years. She died on 1 April 1929, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Lincoln Memorial Park, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.

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Family Time Line

George Harvey Kesterson
1870–1963
Ethel Grace Butler
1875–1929
Marriage: 1891
Laura May Kesterson
1892–
Grace Irene Kesterson
1894–1980
Glenn Huston Kesterson
1896–1960

Sources (28)

  • Edythe G Kesterson, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Oregon Deaths, 1842-1952 and Delayed Births, 1844-1914; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DCTW-QHH?cc=2352707&wc=Q6W5-M84%3A1590074052
  • Edythe, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Death Records, 1864-1967"

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1876 · The First Worlds Fair in the U.S.

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1877 · Nicodemus is Founded

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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

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Name Meaning

English: from a word that originally denoted a wine steward, usually the chief servant of a medieval household, from Norman French butuiller (Old French bouteillier, Latin buticularius, from buticula ‘bottle’). In the large households of royalty and the most powerful nobility, the title came to denote an officer of high rank and responsibility, only nominally concerned with the supply of wine, if at all. As well as being widespread in England, this is also the surname of an important Irish family, descended from Theobald FitzWalter, who was appointed Chief Butler of Ireland by King Henry II in 1177. It is Gaelicized as de Buitléir.

English: occasionally perhaps an occupational name from Middle English boteler ‘maker of bottles (usually of leather)’, a derivative of Middle English botel, Old French bo(u)teille ‘bottle’ and synonymous with Botelmaker.

Americanized form of French Bouthillier (see Bouteiller ).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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