Tiffany Creek is a blog about ancestors from Pepin and Dunn counties in Wisconsin. Tiffany is an actual township in Dunn that my ancestors lived in off and on. In addition to posts regarding my ancestors, you can expect random posts about others who lived in these areas... random acts of genealogical kindness, complete with sources.
Revision One. I employed layers and "multiply" in GIMP to bring out the details. Then, just because I could, I opened the image in Adobe Photoshop Elements and applied yet another layer of sharpening under the enhance menu with remove lens blur selected because I was not satisfied with the print quality. I created three different sizes of this photo - 4X6, 5X7, and 8X10 - in Adobe Photoshop Elements and selected resample option bicubic smoothing because I was enlarging a nearly thumbprint sized photo. Print quality was much improved. Wish I had Genuine Fractals 6!
For a while now, I have wondered what became of my 3rd great grandfather's children. I know what happened to my 2nd great grandfather, George A. Butterfield, after the Civil War. What I wanted to find out was what happened to the rest of T.A. Butterfield's children.
The first question I decided to answer was "Did any of the other boys go off to war and what were their experiences in the U.S. Civil War?" The method I decided to employ to answer this question was simple: proceed one by one, with each of T.A.'s sons, starting with the oldest and working my way down to the youngest son.
In spite of its seeming pedantry, my method led to some emotional discoveries. In descending birth order, the sons of T.A. Butterfield and Rebecca J. Webb are: Sherwood/Therwood W., George A., William F., Thaddeus Actford II, Justin Austin, and Marcus.
George A. is my second great grandfather and I know he had served in the Minnesota cavalry, enlisting initially as a private and being promoted to full corporal. As I mentioned in the previous post, George A. Butterfield also served as a corporal in the 51st Wisconsin Infantry.
Little did I know, I was about to embark on a sad journey. The Butterfield family sent three of their boys off to war. Of the three, only one would return home - my ancestor, George A. Butterfield.
Sherwood W. Butterfield, older brother of George A., enlisted as a private in Company E, 18th Infantry Regiment, Wisconsin, on 25 February 1862. He was mustered out at Huntsville, Alabama, on 27 April 1864 at the age of 21 - a POW, he had died languishing in a Huntsville prison. Official records indicate he died of "disease."
The soldiers of the 18th Infantry Regiment had already fought at Shiloh, Corinth, Jackson, Champion's Hill, and Vicksburg by the time Sherwood W. Butterfield was captured. These soldiers arrived at Huntsville on Christmas Day of 1863 and would remain there until 1 May 1864. Sherwood W. was among the 45 taken prisoner in the retaking of Huntsville - most of whom would die in southern prisons before the end of the war. The 18th Infantry Regiment, meanwhile, went on to march to glory with General Sherman...
For his part, William F. Butterfield enlisted as a private in Company K, Wisconsin 36th Infantry on 29 February 1864. He was mustered out on 18 June 1864 after being killed at the Siege of Petersburg in county Dinwiddie, Virginia. Having arrived on the 15th of June, the 36th Infantry Regiment participated in Meade's Assaults (June 15-18), also known as the Second Battle of Petersburg. Petersburg would make possible the fall of Richmond, the entire operation being under the command of Ulysses S. Grant.
For the briefest of moments, I thought it possible collateral paternal kin and one of my maternal ancestors had served together in the the Wisconsin Infantry during the U.S. Civil War. I discovered the Civil War military records for Jared Jerry Towers, who married Amanda Wright. Jared was the father of Jay W. Towers, brother-in-law of my great-grandmother, Ione (Franklin) Wright. Jared enlisted 17 May 1861 in and was mustered out 21 August 1861 of the 1st Wisconsin Infantry.
My maternal ancestor, George A. Butterfield, had also enlisted, albeit briefly, in the Wisconsin Infantry and the 1st Infantry held a familiar ring to it. However, upon checking the records, it was clear the two men had no contact with each other during the Civil War. Towers had enlisted in the 1st Infantry in 1861, while Butterfield had enlisted temporarily in the 51st Infantry in 1865 before returning to the service of his original Minnesota Cavalry unit - he served as a corporal in both militias.
Welcome to Tiffany Creek, a new blog about ancestors from Dunn and Pepin counties in Wisconsin. I will be posting information about my Wisconsin ancestors here, as well as information about other individuals who lived in the area. With any luck, I will help others researching ancestors from this region. I welcome your comments and suggestions. I am still in the process of tweaking the settings and layouts of this blog, so you can expect changes. I intend to make Tiffany Creek more attractive than it is now, but that will take some time. In the meantime, enjoy my posts and sign my guestbook, please!
A short list of surnames I am researching in this region: Butterfield Harrington Parker Nussberger
Note that this list is not all-inclusive and there are other surnames I have information about and am researching. The Nussbergers came to America in 1847 and settled in Bear Creek, Pepin, Wisconsin, which was later renamed Durand. The Parkers and Harringtons arrived from Minnesota in about 1860 - they had also lived in Iowa and Illinois, with the patriarch of the Parker family having been born in Pennsylvania and the matriarch - a Watson - having been born in Kentucky. The Harringtons and Butterfields have ancestry that dates back to early colonial times in the U.S., these families having lived in various parts of New England, especially the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Harringtons intermarried with the Deans of New York and Canada as well. So you will see a lot of east coast genealogy as well, not to mention some posts about the witch trials and certain Quaker incidents that my family was involved in.
Last, but not least, do expect sources. These will be listed, whenever possible, at the bottom of posts as footnotes with links, where appropriate.
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