Butler, Emma (Emmeline) L.

Daughter of S. & E.

Died Feb 10, 1880

Aged 15 Yrs, 7 Mo., 20 Days

Both the 1939 Blaine Helman inventory of Hice-Pershing inscriptions (above) and a more contemporary inventory include Emma L. Butler's tombstone. The Helman inventory, as reproduced at Find A Grave, gives her date of death as Feb. 10, 1880.

The more recent listing of Hice-Pershing Cemetery inscriptions agrees on much of the tombstone information, but gives the date of death as 10 September 1880.

An account of the life of Richard Butler, Emma's brother (Stewart, Prof. J.T., "Indiana County, Pennsylvania, Her People, Past and Present," Chicago: J.H. Beers & Co., 1913, Volume II, Page 1123), identifies Emma L. as "Emmeline," born 20 June 1864 and the youngest of Samuel and Elizabeth Butler's children and states that she died at age 16.

Adding the age at death agreed upon by both transcribers to the birth date provided in the Stewart volume strongly suggests that the Helman information is correct and the later reading inaccurate.