Ancestry of
George H. W. Bush

41st U.S. President

Mary Elizabeth Butler

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• • Great-grandmother of George H. W. Bush — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 11 
  • Father:
  • Cortland Philip Livingston Butler 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Slade Pierce   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Jul 1850 
  • Birth Location:
  • Columbus, Franklin, Ohio 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 Jan 1897 
  • Death Location:
  • Columbus, Franklin, Ohio 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Robert Emmet Sheldon
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Feb 1869 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Columbus, Franklin, Ohio 
  • Child:

  Flora Sheldon (Ahnentafel No:5 )

  • Notes: 
  • Sources disagree on Mary's birth date. Her tombstone lists 1849 while the "Pierce Genealogy" by Frederick C. Pierce states it as 17 JUN 1851.

• Sources for Mary Elizabeth Butler

  • ¹ Franklin County at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: Historical Record of its Development, Resources . . ., Columbus, Ohio: Historical Publishing Company (1901), 131.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/31/2012).
  • ³ The Mayflower Descendant, 1991, Vol. 41, p. 3.
  • ⁴ Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Pierce Genealogy, No. IV, Being the Record of the Posterity of Capt. Michael, John and Capt. William Pierce . . ., Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons (1889), 256.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 9.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 437, 440, 443-446, 458, 463, 477, 480, 490, 496, 501, 503, 507, 510, 512.