John and Tamer Pool Butler appear to be my dead-ends for the Butler line.  They are my 4th great-grandparents.

John M. Butler was born in Kentucky about 1813.  Tamer Pool was born in Indiana about 1814.  They were married in Jennings County, IN (north of Louisville, KY) on October 13, 1831.  It is currently unknown who their parents were.

They had eight children that lived past infancy:

• Eli Thomas
• Joseph W
• Nancy J
• James O
• Jemima
• John P (or D)
• Sarah
• Robert

In 1850 the family was recorded to be in Blue River, Johnson Co, IN (north of Columbus IN).  By 1860, John and Tamer were living in Clay County, IL (west of Olney, near Flora).  By this time, only James, Jemima, Sarah and Robert were still at home.   Based on later census data, Eli was married with children, location unknown.  Joseph had married Delilah Wright and they had a son, John F., prior to moving to Clay Co, IL, where they lived next door to John and Tamer.  It’s believed that Eli wasn’t far away since both Eli and Joseph mustered with the 98th Illinois Infantry.  Unfortunately, Joseph didn’t make it home as he died in Georgia in June 1864 and is buried at the Marietta National Cemetery.  Delilah remarried later that year to Joseph Pool and moved back to Indiana with John F and Loretta, who was born in 1861.  Joseph Pool was quite a bit older than Delilah, so it’s possible that he was a younger brother to her mother-in-law.  Nancy and John P’s whereabouts after the 1850 census are unclear.  It’s possible that Nancy married a D.S. Ulrey, but anything past a marriage record supporting this hasn’t surfaced yet.

The whereabouts of nearly everyone in this family, except Eli and Joseph’s families, is unknown after the 1860 census.