Cemetery Photo

Adair County, Oklahoma

© by: Martha Real

Dennis BUTLER

© The Standard-Sentinel

September 8, 1921

Submitted by:Wanda Elliott

The remains of Dennis BUTLER arrived from France, Wednesday morning and at 1 o'clock p.m. were buried with military honors under the auspices of the Dennis Butler Post of the American Legion at New Hope.
Rev. P.C. SCHILLING conducted the religious service and delivered a very eloquent memorial address, and was chaplain for the local post of the American Legion at the grave.
L.B. DANNENBURG commanded the firing squad and H.O. YOE and Rupert WATERS were buglers.
It was the largest funeral Stilwell has ever witnessed.

Dennis BUTLER fell in June 1918 on the occasion of the memorial held in Stilwell, August 8, the same year, The Standard-Sentinel had the following: "Private Dennis BUTLER is the first soldier from Adair county to give his life in France on the altar of freedom.
He volunteered for service at Fort Smith, Ark., in October 1917. From there went to Little Rock, and then to Camp Robinson, Wisconsin, for training.
In January this year he went with the American forces to France, being a private in Battery D, 17th Field Artillery. He was killed in action June 23.

Our people remember the dead hero as "Dud" BUTLER, a young man of twenty-three years of age, with splendid appearance, possessing a manly, soldiery appearance even before enlisting in the war.
He was a farmer boy, but took pride in his dress, carriage and appearance and attracted attention in all crowds.

He is the third son of Mrs. Jennie STARR, with his brother, Ross BUTLER, and sister, Mrs. Charlie BASSINGER living in our city, and a sister Miss Myrtle BUTLER, attending a commercial college in Tulsa.

He carried $10,000 soldier's insurance, $6,000 going to his mother and $4,000 going to his sister, Miss Myrtle." Miss Myrtle is now Mrs. ALBERTY.

Mrs. Jennie STARR, Ross BUTLER, Mrs. Grover ALBERTY, Mrs. C.A. BASSINGER and Mrs. Clara WELCH join in expressions of appreciation of the kindness of the Stilwell public.