Buttram, Jr, John Buttram & John II, Mrs. There were so many Buttrams there from Alabama I wouldn't attempt to name them all. My wife & I (Jack Buttram) represented Kansas & I come from the John Elijah branch of the tree. Arkansas was represented by Jerome Butram, wife & son, Don, along with his wife Melissa & daughter. Also, his cousin, Deborah, from the same state & descent.įrom Georgia we had Becky Townsend & her uncle who are from the John Elijah branch. (There was also an Abraham-no shortage of Bible names.) These folks are a great help with the genealogy for the Buttrams who don't know where they fit in on the tree.Ī descendant of Pleasant Buttram attended from Indiana, Wayne Buttram & wife. They are descended from yet another brother in that early family of William's-Jacob. Missouri sends the Archie Buttrams & Fern Malteberger with her husband, Jim. The James Keys from the same line & state were "1st timers" in 1983 also. The William Turners, also from Oklahoma, were in attendance for the 3rd year. They went from Kentucky to Indiana to Missouri & finally wound up in Oklahoma. This branch of the Buttram clan is descended from William I's son Cornelius, a brother to the William who fought in the Revolution. He was 80 when he died in Oklahoma City in 1966. He's about the only Buttram we know who was a certified millionnaire at age 32. They are 2nd cousins to Frank Buttram, who was a geologist & civic leader in Oklahoma, married a preacher's daughter. Newcomers to the reunion in 1983 were the Macys, Ruby & her brother. From Texas also came Jarman & Lorene Buttram representing "the Pea Ridge Branch." The John Buttrams from Dallas, from the John Elijah clan, came again this year. & Bennie Lou Buttram Scotts from Memphis, who are from the John Elijah branch of the family. Sam Key & wife from the John Elijah line. From Tennessee, Donald Buttram, descended from Jacob, a brother of William mentioned above. Buttrams, from South Carolina, descended from John Elijah, descended on the reunion for about the 4th or 5th year in a row, & ate more chicken than ought to be lawful. Also Theo Sneed, a descendant of John Elijah & a son of the Revolutionary War Vet, William, returned this year. Phillip Buttram, from Virginia, descended from Andrew, a son of William the Revolutionary War Veteran. I will give you a list as I can remember them, but it is certain to be incomplete. I did not make a list of the people who attended the Buttram reunion, so it would be impossible to name them all. Clair County, Alabama, but moved to Topeka & got stuck there permanently, writes these notes about the folks who attended the 1983 gathering. The Buttrams come from as near as "up the road a piece," & as far away as California. Presiding over this unlikely gathering of kinsfolk from near & far are Gus & Becky Buttram, directors, caretakers & general factotums of the camp which is an officially designated facility for the handicapped in Alabama. The last weekend in July has, for about the last 14 years or so, been the gathering time for the clan called Buttram, Butrum, Burtram, Mertram, Burtt-Ram or Bertrand (if your taste runs to fancy French.) The place is Camp Maxwell in the environs of Haleyville, Alabama-the sovereign state of Winston (another story known & loved mainly by North Alabamians.) That's where the Buttram "lode" is, that's where we strike gold every July. This information was originally on the profiles for William Buttram, Jr. Rather than crowd profiles with letters and family reunion information, it has been placed here. He was also Oklahoma’s Republican nominee for Governor in 1932.This space contains additional information about the Buttrum/Bertram Family. He devoted the rest of his life to civic and business activities across Oklahoma and was a member of such committees as the State Board of Regents for Higher Education, the board of First Christian Church, and the international board of the Disciples of Christ. Buttram was a millionaire when the firm was sold in 1918 and he founded Buttram Petroleum Company, one of the nation’s largest oil operators at the time. In 1914, Buttram helped organize and was chief biologist of Fortuna Oil Company, which enjoyed immediate success with the first seven of its eight wells. It was at OU that he also began working on his master’s degree in geology and took a job with the Oklahoma Geological Survey, where he published a bulletin that detailed the value of geology in locating oil and gas fields, logging formations, and defining structures. He taught in a rural school while attending classes at Central State Normal School in Edmond (now the University of Central Oklahoma) and received his degree from the University of Oklahoma in Norman in 1910. One of Oklahoma’s “oil kings,” Frank Buttram was born on a small farm in the Chickasaw Nation in Love County and grew up near Shawnee, Oklahoma.
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