Fannie Hughes (Timbers) Butler
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Title
Fannie Hughes (Timbers) Butler
Subject
Butler, Fannie Hughes Timbers (1893-1984)
African Americans - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Description
Portrait photograph of Fannie Hughes (Timbers) Butler as a young woman.
She was the daughter of William B. and Sarah Evelyn (Bibbs) Timbers.
Fannie Hughes Timbers married Lucien P. Butler (1900-1963) in June 1921, in Woodstock. The person who performed their marriage ceremony was W.H. Polk, a well-known African American minister in Woodstock.
Lucien was the son of W.O. and Alice Butler of Strasburg. He had worked as a bell boy at the fashionable Loch Lynn Hotel in Mt. Lake Park, Garret County, Maryland, when he registered for the WWI draft. When he married, his occupation was “cook”.
By 1930, the couple lived at 239 E. High Street in Woodstock in a home they owned. Lucien worked as a cook at Massanutten Military Academy and they had two young daughters: Fannie Timbers and Esterlean Rawes Butler.
Fannie’s half-brother, Harper Timbers, lived next door with his large family.
In his later years, Lucien worked at Wender’s Department Store in Woodstock before suffering a fatal heart attack. Fannie stayed in her home on High Street and lived another 21 years until she, too, reached the end of her life.
She was the daughter of William B. and Sarah Evelyn (Bibbs) Timbers.
Fannie Hughes Timbers married Lucien P. Butler (1900-1963) in June 1921, in Woodstock. The person who performed their marriage ceremony was W.H. Polk, a well-known African American minister in Woodstock.
Lucien was the son of W.O. and Alice Butler of Strasburg. He had worked as a bell boy at the fashionable Loch Lynn Hotel in Mt. Lake Park, Garret County, Maryland, when he registered for the WWI draft. When he married, his occupation was “cook”.
By 1930, the couple lived at 239 E. High Street in Woodstock in a home they owned. Lucien worked as a cook at Massanutten Military Academy and they had two young daughters: Fannie Timbers and Esterlean Rawes Butler.
Fannie’s half-brother, Harper Timbers, lived next door with his large family.
In his later years, Lucien worked at Wender’s Department Store in Woodstock before suffering a fatal heart attack. Fannie stayed in her home on High Street and lived another 21 years until she, too, reached the end of her life.
Creator
Morrison Studio
Source
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Publisher
Shenandoah County Library
Date
1912 per William Polk
Labelled as "Oct 1914" on box of plates.
Contributor
Identified in August 2006 by William Polk. Subject was his mother's friend in Woodstock. He has a similar picture at home.
Additional biographical information was compiled from public records.
Rights
IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED
Relation
Fannie (Timbers) Butler appears in Morrison photos 000608, 000783, 0005717, 007811, 011948, 012916, 016333, 022677, 022947 and 022948.
Her two brothers are pictured in Morrison Photo 00917.
Identifier
000783
Original Format
Glass Negative
Collection
Citationzork
Morrison Studio, “Fannie Hughes (Timbers) Butler,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed December 5, 2025, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/23034.
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