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Fannie (Timbers) Butler with Daughter Fannie Butler Washington

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Dublin Core

Title

Fannie (Timbers) Butler with Daughter Fannie Butler Washington

Subject

Butler, Fannie Hughes Timbers (1893-1984)
Washington, Fannie Butler Timbers (1922-2012)
African Americans - Virginia - Shenandoah County

Description

Portrait of Fannie (Timbers) Butler as a young woman sitting on a bench in studio. She is smiling down at her daughter, Fannie (Butler) Washington, who is sitting in her lap.

Fannie (Timbers) Butler was the daughter of William B. and Sarah (Bibbs) Timbers. She 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.

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 (Butler) Washington was born in 1922. She was a member of the Shenandoah Community Fellowship. In 1946, she married her husband, Everett Washington.

Creator

Morrison Studio

Source

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Publisher

Shenandoah County Library

Date

Labeled "July 1922" on box of plates.

Contributor

Subjects identified by Fannie Butler's granddaughter and Fannie Washington's daughter, Pat Corley.

Biographical information 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 and 022677.

Identifier

011948

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Glass Negative

Citation

Morrison Studio, “Fannie (Timbers) Butler with Daughter Fannie Butler Washington,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed November 21, 2024, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/40052.

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