Julia Ordelphia Evers Butler

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Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Julia Ordelphia Evers Butler was born May 20, 1877 in Douglasville, Alabama, and departed this life August 10, 1957 after a long illness of 15 months in the Cheyenne Hospital.

She was married to Shelby James Butler, in Texas, December 7, 1899.

They came to Oklahoma in 1902 and to this union were born nine children, Uel Butler of LaMonte, Missouri; Anna Mae Clay of Canyon, Texas; Beatrice Hunter of Sayre; Pearl Vaughn of Palo Alto, California; Wallace Butler of Redwood City, California; and Alma Schmidt of Crawford.

Two infants, her husband and one daughter, Arvar Aderholt preceded her in death.

Besides her children she leaves to mourn her passing one brother, eleven grandchildren, and a host of friends.

She became a Christian in early life and was a true, kind and faithful mother to the end.

Interment in Silent Home Cemetery, Roll, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma.