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Fannie Timbers Butler

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Title

Fannie Timbers Butler

Subject

Butler, Fannie Timbers (1893-1984)

Description

Photograph of Fannie Hughes Timbers Butler seated on a bench in the studio.

Fannie 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.

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

Labelled "June 1916" on box of plates.

Contributor

Biographical information compiled from public records.
Identified by Simone (Toliver) Alsberry, a granddaughter of Fannie (Timbers) Butler.

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

012916

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Glass Negative

Citation

Morrison Studio, “Fannie Timbers Butler ,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed November 21, 2024, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/42227.

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