When Isaac Searles Butts was born on March 17, 1849, in Dryden, New York, his father, Isaac, passed away before his birth, and his mother, Phebe, was 24. Sadly, his mother also died when Isaac was only one year old. He married Elizabeth Hickok on January 10, 1872. They had four children in 15 years. He died on March 23, 1934, in Hutchinson, Kansas, at the age of 85, and was buried in Pretty Prairie, Kansas.
