Behethland Foote Butler

Behethland Moore

• Birth: 28 Dec 1764 in Fauquier, Virginia, British Colonial America
• Death: 2 Dec 1853 at age 88 in Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina, United States
• Parents: Francis Moore and Frances Foote
• Spouse: William Butler - married July 3, 1784 in Edgefield, South Carolina, United States

Family

William Butler (December 17, 1759 – November 15, 1821) is the son of James Butler and M Elizabeth Simpson. He was a US Congressman, and a General during the American Revolution. William Butler is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A017740.

William Butler married Behethland Foote Moore, and they had nine children:

1. James Moore Butler. 1785 - 1821. (Colonel). Married 1) unknown Mays 2) Eliza Kennerly.
2. George Butler 1785 – 1821. Unmarried.
3. William Butler, Jr. 1790 – 1850 (Congressman and Dr.). Married Jane Tweedy Perry.
4. Frank Moore Butler 1793 – 1827 (Colonel). Married 1) unknown 2) Louise Adeline Ford 3) Mary.
5. James Preston Butler 1796 – 1850
6. Andrew Pickens Butler 1796 – 1857. Married Rebecca Harriet Hayne.
7. Pierce Mason Butler 1798 – 1847. (South Carolina Governor). Miranda Juliette Duval.
8. Emmala Elizabeth Butler 1800 - 1848. Married Waddy Thompson.
9. Leontine Butler 1802 - 1827.

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Obituary

• "Mrs. Behethland Foote Butler died on Friday evening, December 2, 1853, at half past 7 o'clock, at the residence of her only surviving child, the Honorable A. P. Butler. She was the relict of General William Butler of the Revolution. She was born in Virginia in 1764, but had lived from early youth in this section of South Carolina."[1]
• "Behethland Butler Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution was named for a South Carolina heroine of that War – Behethland Foote Moore, born December 24, 1764, in Fauquier County, Virginia. Her father was Captain Frank Moore, who commanded one of the Virginia troops at Braddock's defeat. Her mother was Frances Foote. About 1768, five years after the marriage of her parents, they moved to South Carolina and settled on Little River in Laurens District, where Captain Moore died two years afterward. His widow entered a second marriage with Captain Samuel Savage, who in 1774 moved to Edgefield District and made his residence on the Saluda River, just above Saluda Old Town. Here Miss Moore and her two brothers, William and George, lived with her mother and stepfather.
• "Behethland's education was given more care than usually bestowed on young girls. She went to school in Camden, and while there took great pleasure in looking at the soldiers in the command of Count Pulaski as they passed through en route to Charleston. In 1781 she returned home, where the terrors of war came to her very door. On at least two occasions the intrepid girl braved plunderers for the protection of her father's property or on a point of honor."
• "While she resided at home, it became necessary to convey intelligence of danger to Captain Wallace, who was in command of a small force on the other side of the Saluda. There was difficulty in doing this, as no male messenger could be procured. Miss Moore, at the time but fifteen years old, volunteered to undertake the service. Accompanied by her little brother, and a friend named Fanny Smith, she went up the river in a canoe in the middle of the night, gave the warning to Captain Wallace, and through him to Colonel Henry Lee." [2]
• "The next morning a young American officer, who had been below on some reconnoitering service, rode up to the house to make a few inquiries. These were answered by the young lady, who, it is said, was somewhat struck with the appearance of the handsome man in dragoon uniform. This was the first occasion on which she saw her future husband. It was not long before the courtship took place, followed by marriage in 1784. The young people took possession of a small farm which Captain Butler had inherited from his father, near Mount Willing. Fourteen years afterward they moved to an estate on one of the branches of the Saluda River, where they continued to live until his death in 1821."
• "General Butler was almost constantly engaged in public service and was necessarily absent from home a great part of the time, in Congress from 1801 to 1814, and commanding the South Carolina forces as Major General during 1814 and 1815. The care not only of his family bit also of his plantation and business devolved upon Mrs. Butler. She had the care of a family of seven sons and one daughter, the support of which was derived from mainly from the produce of a small farm. She undertook the superintendence of her children's education and especially their moral training. The careers of her children reflect the excellence of their noble mother."
• "Behethland Butler is buried near Saluda, South Carolina, at the old Butler cemetery adjoining the Butler Methodist Church."[3]

Prepared by Mrs. S.H. Bowen from Elizabeth F. Ellet's "The Women of the American Revolution," Volume II, George W. Jacobs & Co., Philadelphia, 1900, pp. 111-123. Also published in the 1976-77 Behethland Butler Chapter Yearbook.

https://www.edgefieldadvertiser.com/2023/01/a-feisty-and-faithful-f...

John’s niece Sarah Ryan married first Col. George Berryman Moore (1769-1806). It is through this marriage that we find another connection between the Ryans and the Butlers: Capt. Frank Moore (1731-1771) was the father of George Moore and Behethland Foote Moore, who as mentioned previously, was married to William Butler.

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Source: The Edgefield Advertiser, December 7, 1853

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• Residence: Greenville, South Carolina, United States - 1830
• Census: Pension application of William Butler - Mar 26 1841 - Edgefield District, South Carolina
• Census: Sep 6 1848 - Edgefield District, South Carolina
• Census: Butler B. F. 85 F VA [Betheland Foote Moore] - 1850 - Edgefield Co., SC
  • Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Nov 22 2019, 3:53:12 UTC

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References

1. Jervey, Theodore D. “The Butlers of South Carolina.” The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 4, no. 4 (1903): 296–311. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27575042.
2. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=25508497
3. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25508497/behethland-foote-butler
4. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Moore-12375
5. Stepdaughter of Moses Yarborough: South Carolina Archives, Miscellaneous Records, Book PP, page 114, citing Moses Yarborough and Frances, Behethland Foote Moore, William Moore, George Moore; Page 506, citing Frances Yarborough, William Yarborough, Gilson Yarborough, Elizabeth Yarborough, and Ann Yarborough.
6. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LJLZ-4PC
7. http://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full... WILLIAM BUTLER [1] BEHETHLAND FOOTE MOORE