Hannah BUTT

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Richard DEYMAN Richard Richard Humphrey Humphrey DAYMANT Humphry DAYMAN William Ann Hannah BUTT

Hannah BUTT

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Birth: 23 Jan 1863 in Usborne, Ontario

Death: 28 Oct 1959 in Exeter, Ontario

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Article from Exeter Times-Advocate Jan. or Feb. 1957 - "Too Much Pride in Women Says 94-Year-Old Critic" - "Mrs. Hannah Taylor, Andrew Street, who celebrated her ninety-fourth birthday on Wednesday, has some caustic remarks to make about the modern woman." - discusses how people spend too much money trying to keep up with neighbours - "Women don't dress warm enough. They wear transparent things. I'd never put on a pair of nylon stockings." - can recall her early school days at S.S. No.5 Usborne - likes to play euchre once a week - remembers when it was forbidden in her home years ago, but brothers and friends would play in the cellar - born on 3rd concession of Usborne on farm now owned by Clark Fisher - father was late Elam Butt,a miller who worked in Exeter - liked school - finished public school at age 13 but they wouldn't let her in the high school at Goderich untill she was 17 - old Ebenezer church stood across the street from her farm - when she was 15 her father bought a farm at Kippen and the family moved there - her father bought the Usborne farm for $400 and sold it 24 years later to George Fisher for $8500 - "In 1904 she married Edmund Taylor, a former Kippen man, and moved to his farm in Fillmore, Sask.where she was on the homestead for 41 years. She moved to Exeter 11 years ago." - moved to Hensall early in the winter - expert crocheter - completed a large table cloth last year - gets her own meals, tends her fires and does her own housekeeping.
Letter to John James Butt (her nephew) written from Fillmore Mar.9, 1941 - "Dear John, Received your letter yesterday and glad to hear you felt so young. I knew you were about 60 as I was about 15 when your parents were married and I kept track ofyou since but the others I just guessed about. I admire a big family. You raise them then they grow up and scatter but they are doing something towards keeping up their country. I am coming to the close of a childless life and I can't see that Ihave ever done any good and I leave no one to do any good for my wasted life. I should have been married when I was twenty and I could have been although I was never very handsome but there is never a Jack without a Joan and I let my Jack get away. I couldn't bear to leave home. We had a good home and a good time. Lots of work and lots of fun. Plentygood clothes and plenty to eat and no restrictions. I have a good memory and I love history like my father for that. I never remember of my father speaking of his grandparents but I have heard him speak of his uncles on the Butt side. He had five uncles and his father was the smallest and shortest and he was six feet tall and weighed 175. They lived in Dorsetshire, England and they worked at trades or in factories in town. I think the name of the town was Poole. They were all good workers and good singers. People used to say the Butts were born with hymn books in their hands and singing instead of crying. My grandfather's name was Joseph and he married Sarah Arnold when he was only 18 and Uncle James and (Elam) Father (twins) were born when he was 19 and Uncle Josiah 1-1/2 years after that and Ephriam a year after that until when the twins were 17 there were 9 children namely James, Elam, Josiah, Ephriam, Lionel, Eliza, Hannah, Henry, and Stephen. By that time my grandmother who was the daughter of a gentleman, got so tired of being snubbed by her rich sister, made grandfather leave England and go to Canada. Thetwins were born Sept.24, 1824 and grandfather came to Canada in 1841. He was only 36 then and his wife died and a baby also a week after they arrived in Toronto. At that time two rich young men by the name of Elliott came to Canada and bought up 1000 acres of bush land near Toronto and they were from Devonshire. They went back and hired a lot of men from Devonshire to come out and they gave them all work as they built a grist mill and saw mill, a store and hospital. They all had trades ascarpenters, farmers, blacksmiths and all tradesmen came from Devonshire to work for them. Grandfather was a cooper and he hired with them to make flour barrels. He was the only one from Dorsetshire. Then father got in the gristmill, Uncle James inthe saw mill and the other boys got jobs too. Henry Elliott married my mother's cousin and father fell in love with my mother while visiting there and as soon as his trade was learnt they got married. They were both 21. My brothers were all bornin Hampton - that is the name they gave the new town. They built 4 room cottages and rented them to their employees. Your father was just 6 weeks old when mother prevailed on father to buy land near Exeter. Her father and brothers had taken homesteads and Aunt Mary's husband too. Father was a good worker but a poor farmer but mother's father and brothers showed Jim how to work as mother's father was a farmer in England and owned a farm but he gave it up and married a blacksmith's daughtercalled Ann Oke and so his father called that a disgrace. The Okes were all tradesmen but the Daymans were gentry. The Butts were tradesmen too and the Arnolds were gentry so we are half breeds neither gentry or tradespeople (just folks). Father gave $400.00 for the farm and he ditched, fenced and worked in Pickard's mill in Exeter and Jim worked the horses and put in the crops with the help of Uncle Humphrey and Billy and father earned enough in the grist mill to pay them both. Father never drove horses if he could get out of it. But he chopped trees down and did anything else that his hands found to do. Jim did the teaming from the time he was ten years old. Grandfather Butt would never take up land. He said all the earth he wanted was six feet of earth. He got married the second time in Hampton about a year before Uncle James and Father did. He married a girl who had no people around her and she was only 18. Her mother was hired to keep house for two old toughs who workedin the bush for the Elliotts. The mother died and Grandfather took pity on the girl and married her. Father and Uncle James never would acknowledge her and they never cared for her or any of the second family. All the others mixed up together. There were nine who lived on in the second. The first one died. The others were called in rotation Jane, George, Charles, Mary, Maria, Vianna, Jonah, Mark and Anjoulettea. They are about the ages of us and Uncle James' family. Jonah was a lovely singer and could play any instrument he could get hold of. He was a carpenter and lived in Brantford. He was married and had a child or two and died before he was 30 and I never heard a word about his wife after. A girl from Filmore went to work in Weyburn about 20 years ago and married a man called Alfred Butt. I made enquiries and found that he came from Nova Scotia and he didn't know anything about his antecedents but if grandfather's five brothers were as prolific as he there will be Butts all over England and Australia as two of them went to Australia when Father was a boy and Grandfather was the only one who came to Canada that Father ever knew about anyway but they never kept track of one another. There were three uncles left in England when granddad came to Canada at least that is what I understood. I think Granddad was the eldest as I never heard Father speak of the others as being married. When the two left for Australia all the six brothers were at the dock and someone asked them to sing as they would never be all together again. The six stood together and looked so tall and straight and sang How Firm a Foundation so beautifully that people said they were like a heavenly choir.
Great Uncle George was a fighter. He could beat any two other men and was scared of no one. One time three men waylaid him when he was going to see a girl and he had no weapon but his fists. He knocked all three out and one he thought he had killed so he turned back and told the magistrate who sent men out to find out and all three had to be carried to their homes and put under a doctor's care. The Butts are very religious but they fight for the poor and oppressed. About 40 years ago therewas a great stir amongst the Butt family. It was said there was a great deal of money left by one Phyllis Butt and Uncle Josiah came to Father to get the history of their lineage as Ephriam, his son, was going to England to find out about it. Father wouldn't tell him a thing as he said he never knew of a Butt that was fond enough of money as to save up a fortune. So he said it couldn't be any relations of his father or uncles. My father was better off than any of his brothers. My father got a big pumpkin and an axe from his father and his father's blessing which Father appreciated. Father was prospered all through his life and he thought it was all because his father blessed him.
When Ephriam Butt went to England he never found a Butt in Dorsetshire so it is hard to say where those others went after the other three left. Father and Uncle James were old enough to go to the boat to see their two uncles off for Australia. People were too busy raising children to keep up any correspondence with their brothers in another land. They would just part never to see or hear of one another again.
Father used to say that Aunt Eliza's sons were more like his old uncles than any of the relations. They were big good looking tall 6 footers and lovely singers. They were named Ephriam, William, Joseph, Henry and Philip. Their father was William Palmer, mother's cousin. Mother's people and Father's people lived in Hampton for 14 years then they came to Huron County. The Butts to Goderich and the Daymans and Okes to Exeter. Father followed mother's folks. I can only remember the name of oneof the old uncles and that was George the fighter. Love to all, Aunt Hannah Taylor
I also have photocopies of 2 letters to Maggie (sister of John) written from Exeter Aug. 1954 and July 25, 1955 by Hannah Butt Taylor.
Will of Hannah (Butt) Taylor left estate to be shared among 6 people -- James Scruton Petty (nephew, son of Sarah Anne Butt and John Henry Petty), Roy Arnold Butt (nephew, son of William Dayman Butt and Kitty Workman), James Butt (?), Alda Ann Simmons (niece, daughter of Maria Jane Butt and John Bruce Dinsdale), Edna Lillian Butt (niece, daughter of Elam Butt Jr. and Mary McNeill), and Bernice (Butt) Peters (great niece, daughter of Josiah Butt and Mary McNaughton). Each received $731.24 in 1959. Money was left to Bernice because she was a child of Josiah and had met Hannah when Bernice worked in Woodstock during her twenties. Josiah had been left nothing from any others in the family, because he was adopted and wasn't considered anatural son and Hannah felt badly about this.

ParentsBornDied

Elam (Senior) BUTT24 Sep 1824 20 Sep 1904

Ann(e) DAYMAN1 Feb 1825 1 Jan 1909

HusbandBornDied

Wilbur Edmond (Ed) TAYLOR2 Jan 1869 1934

ChildrenBornDied

George (Georgie) Elam TAYLOR1906 1916

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