Frances Parke Lewis Butler
(1799-1875)
BIRTH
November 27, 1799
PLACE
Mount Vernon, Virginia, U.S.
NAME
Frances Parke Lewis
DEATH
June 30, 1875
PLACE
Pass Christian, Mississippi, U.S.
FAMILY
FATHER
Lawrence Lewis
(1767-1839)
MOTHER
Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis
(1779-1852)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Frances Parke Lewis Butler (1799–1875) was born at Mount Vernon to Lawrence Lewis and Eleanor Parke Custis, shortly before George Washington’s death. She married Edward George Washington Butler in 1826 and lived at Dunboyne plantation in Louisiana, where enslaved people sustained the household and sugar production. Her papers preserve letters and Custis pedigrees she compiled in 1858 and 1872, one sent to her son in Berlin. She died at Pass Christian, Mississippi.
EARLY LIFE
Frances Parke Lewis Butler was born on Nov 27, 1799. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Frances Parke Lewis Butler is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Frances Parke Lewis Butler died on Jun 30, 1875. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Frances Parke Lewis Butler died on Jun 30, 1875, in Pass Christian, Mississippi, U.S. Frances Parke Lewis Butler was born at Mount Vernon to Lawrence Lewis and Eleanor Parke Custis, shortly before George Washington’s death. She married Edward George Washington Butler in 1826 and lived at Dunboyne plantation in Louisiana, where enslaved people sustained the household and sugar production. Her papers preserve letters and Custis pedigrees she compiled in 1858 and 1872, one sent to her son in Berlin. She died at Pass Christian, Mississippi. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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