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LIFE STORY OF DAIUIEL BUTTARS 
~ritten by his daughter Archulious B.Archibalc 
I have probably broken all of the rules on writing histories in this one. But I think Life stories are much like people,each one is a little different. 
I was only twelVe years old at the time of my father's demise,so I do not know very much about his earlier life. I appreciate very much the help and information I have recieved from others, whom I will quote verbatim. 

	~ 	Daniel Buttars was born 22 Sept.1859 at Lehi, 
';. Utah Co'., Utah. He is the son of David Buttars and ~. Margaret Spalding, who were converts to the L.D.S. ~. Church in Scotland. His parents came to Utah in the ~ Capt.Taylor Company(see:history'of David Buttars) 
U :There is seven children in the family, three 
girls and four boys. The oldest brother died and was 
. buried in the sea on their way to America. The youngest sister died when she ..•. ras sixteen days old.'-, The first three children were born in Blairgowrie,Perthshire, Scotland and the others in Lehi,Utah Co., Utah. 
The Famlies Births, Deaths and marria~es are; Morjory- B.16 Sept.1849 Md.Joseph Harmison D.7 Apr.19 8 Bethea - B.15 July 1851 Md .Vdlliam Sparks' D .12 Feb.l{ 80 
	David ~ B.23 Dei. 1853 . 	D.12 Apr.l 54 
	John S.- B.22 May 1856 Md.Sarah Tanner 	D.8 Jun.l 34 
	Daniel - B.22 Sept.1858 Md. Emma Gover 	D.IO Jan.l,16 
Robert - B. 6 Apr~ 1861 Md. Hary fJI.Godfrey D.8 June 1 L~5 Margaret B. 5 Aug. 1863 _ D.21 Aug 1 63 
Daniel's moth~r died 10 Aug.l$63,f~ve days afte the birth of Margaret. She and Margaret are buried in the 'Lehi Cemetery. 
The family suffered many hardships due to the 1 of their mother and -the shortage of food and clothing 1,rrhichwas so prevelent- arnQng the early settlers of 	Utah. 	
The marker that ~randfather Buttars put at her grave was destroyed.Some of the grandchildren contributed five dollars each to pay for a new marker anct perpetual care -for the ~ot in thA 
Lehi cemetery. 
	, 	Daniel's father married Sarah Keep Francis 
-on " If, Dec. 1866.She had'a dau:.\hter Lucy Ann Francis whom- grandfather adopted. Aunt Lucy Ann Said,lT Your tatherJ~\oser and better to me than my own brothers wire~When the Crickets were so bad we each took the ends of a rope and dra~ged it over the grain to drive the Crickets off for the night to spare the grain." 
Father's half brothers and sisters are; 
	Sarah Isobel B.26 IvIar.1868 	'D.15 Jun.l/(68 
	l~lizabeth 	B.9 June lR69 ~r.d • .Tohn K. Loosle D.8 Jun.J-)h8 
Charles W. B.15 Jun.18?1 Md.Angeline Stuart D.5 Oct.190~ 
	Thomas J. 	B.13 Oct.lS?3 Md.An~ie E.Loosle D.~9 Jan.1957 
	David A. 	B.14 Dec.18?5 If1d.Rosetta Loosle D.?6 'No_y .19£,h 
	James J. 	B.26 Feh.lR78 IvId.Agnes E.<Tardine D. Fe .1960 
Ivlary Janet B.30 Jun.18S0 TlldO' Iros.L.Thompson D.22 I'iIa~ 1952 Emma Jrme B. 8 Oct.1883 IVId •. David Thompson D. 3 Ma .191? 
The Family moved to Clarkston from Lehi in Oct. 1868.They built a two room house in the Fort,about where Newell Thompson lives now. In l880,when most of the Indian trouble '''las over the family built another tvlO room house on their farm north of Clarkston. 
Daniel "'Jorked on his father's: farm and on the rail road. When he was twenty-one years old his father gave him a team of horses, a wagon,a new pair of homemade overalls and a quilt.He 'went to live with his 'brother Jo~n and his wife, until he was 
	married on 27 Dec.1883 to Emma Gover. 	' 
	, 	Father and mother were married in the Endo~~ent 
House at-Salt Lake City.The ceremony was preformed by Squire vIe lIs • (Probly Daniel \'iells.) They made the tri to Salt Lake in a wagon drawn by a team of horses.It took them three days to drive from Clarkston to Salt Lake 'C,ity. Grapd mother Gover accompanied them to see her daughter married. They stayed with friends and relatives along the way. 

Father and mother built their first home in Clarkston, Cache CO., Utah. Where they both spent their remaining years. It i:ras a one room house, huilt on block no.16 in the north west part of town. They later moved across the street to block no.15.then a block south to a house with three rooms and an unfinished attic. All o·f their ten children were born in these small houses. 
In July 1906 They §egan to build the large house in the west central part of Clarkston, which is still standin8(1959) The house was completed in 1908 and the family moved in for Christmas. All of the materia to build the house was hawled from Logan with horses and wa~ons.The rocks for the foundation was hawled from the surrounding area(see Life Story of Emma G. Buttars) 
Father was a Stockman and a farmer.He took every opportunity to improve himself Financially. He moved his wife and familv west of Clarkston to what is now called City Creektwhere he Homesteaded 160 acres of land. To Homesteaa land one had to live on the land at least ~ix months of each year,for five years. 
The land v-Tas covered with Sage Brush, C-hockcherry and other kinds of trees.It took a lot of hard hand labor to c'lear them altray. Father cleared' a little more each year and planted it to ~ain. He walked behind the Hand Plow and Harrows to prepare the ground for planting. 
Another adventure and project in fathers life was written for me by Uncle Jim Buttars.I will quote 
	him verbatim.' 	- 
"1 made a trip to Canada ,on my return your fatheiand Dan Costley ask me what 1 thought of the country and if 1 thought it would make a good cattle ranch. 
1 told them it was ideal except the climate.Theyhave so many bad storms. There is plenty o'f grass for pasture and to cut for winter feed. ' 
I think the;jV~ptthat fall and bou~ht the ranch. 
Then moved their cattle up the next spring. That fall a big snow storm qame-up.They rounde~-up tpeiT cattle 
	
to the sheds and turned their saddle horses into the hay stacks and thought they were ready for the storm. But to their surprise,they got up the next morning and found one of their horses frozen to death in a snoV.r drift and' their cattle all gone .When they found 
them they were fifty miles away.The cattle had been tc:l.ken ofJas that was the law up there.AII brands were 
registered and all lost cattle were reported to head quarters.The people who had lost cattle were told where thei~ cattle could be found. 
James Costley stayed up there but your father and Dan Costley came back. Your father traded his share of the cattle and the ranch to l\Tr Costley for the farm' he owned north amd west of Clarkston. The Canada pro ject wasn T. t~as successful as your father expected it to be. 
Your father was one of the men in Clarkston 
'\-Tho the people looked to when they ~ .. lanted an improvrneJit made. I don't say this because he is my brother eithet •. Him and Andrew Heggie were the two men people wanted 
to head the program. They layed out the channel for Birch Creek with a plank.(There was probly a groove made in the center.of the plank which was filied 
with water to serve as a spirit level is used now) 
They were at the head \vhen both water systems 'hrere 
	put inthe town. 	~ 
He was the bigest stockman in Clarkston and always had the best, both in cattle and horses. He brought the first pure bred horses int6 tovm .He was always ready to build up the town and help people. 
I may say he was a great man for the people of Clarkston .He 'vas a real financier both for the people and himself. Things always seemed to come his way. 
He was the first in Clarkston to build a house with a bath tub and a toilet in it~~any people came to see it. Later his health failed and he had to slow d9v!I1 because of heart trouble.I was with him once when he had a severe attack". 
I recieved the following information from Ezekiel Godfrey. 
"Tom Buttars and your father shipped horses to Omaha, 
Nebraska, for themselves and other farmerp.They hired Clarkston boys including my self to go on the train a.nd care fc' the horses enroute. They"had to be, unloaded,to be fed and watered on the way. We boys thought this was a pre.vilege to see the country. 
Him and Tom (Tot) Godfrey had a butcher shop on the lot where George Loosle now lives~ There waseft any refrigerat.ion then. The meat spoiled quickly in hot weather.They did not have it long they sold it to 
	Hy Holt. 	- 
Gover Buttars contributed the following to his father's history. 
Father built a three room house on the farm he got from Mr. Costley and made a reservoir to supply "Tater for the animals .He also installed a hydrant close to the house, which \'las an ususal convenience 
- at that time: 'Lor,", a farm house. Most of the people had to hawl water for several miles. 
Father hode horses a lot. His favorite poney's name was Sailor. 
In 1913 Father and Uncle Tom Buttars and Henry a.Thompson went to Iowa and bought pure bred Perchon and Belgium horses. They had them shipped to Logan, Utah. They participated in a parade; Then the horses "[ere put up for sale. William J .Loosle Said, ItI was' very proud of my uncles out there in that parade. They went back the next year.But just bought Sires. 
Each spring the harnesses were all taken a part and dipped into harness oil.This made the leather soft and plyable.The rough and dirty places were scraped and made smooth so they would not injure the horse's' flesh. 
Father was Dnthe city Councel and helped install the first water system. The wooden pipe wasent too successful.He later helped install the present system. The- west part of the Church house and the south part of the school house were projects he aJso helped to promote." 
Father was about 5 feet 9 in. tall~ He was 
quite heavely built.He had an unusal large birth mark on his face.It was of a blueu&h purple colo~.It covered most of his cheak and one side of his nose. 
He had a special gift for splicing and braiding rope. One of his specialities was securing a ring or snap in the end of a rope by braiding around it and bacX along the rope for several inches. He could splice a rope and make it almost as strong as it origionally was. I remember the \.'lOrk was always 
done very neatly.Other people often-brought braiding and splicing for him to do for them, 
Father always insisted that every friend and even strangers who came along must come into the 
house and eat and probably stay all ni~ht.Their horse~ were also taken care of. 
Father bought one of the first three cars that came into Clarkston. It -Vlas a 1915 Model Buick. Thomas Buttars and David Dahle had the ether twa. Father was so used to- horses he called whow to his car. 
At one time he lost control of his car and knocked out the boards in the end of the shed he was useing for a garage. He filled t\vO sacks with dirt and placed them so the front wheels of the car \-Tould 
hit them and prevent another accident. 
In those d'ays when "dnter came the batteries 
were taken out of the cars and stored in the basementje and the wheels were jacked up until spring • 
. No one else in the family had learned to drive the c-ar when father die.d. To know hO\'l to drive a car in 1916 was quite an accomplishment. Laurence Smith taught some of the boys ,to drive after father's death. 
Father was a member of the first Prayer*-Circle groupo that was orgainized in Clarkston ,by Bishop John Jardine on the 23 June 1901.They met twice each month ,in an upstairs room in the home of Grandfather David' Buttars: >-yns 
Father died very suddenly of a heart attack about 5 A •. M. on 10 Jan. 1916.He was setting in: his big leather chair in front of the Heatrola.He slipped out onto the floor. He and mother were the only ones up that early.But it did not take the rest of us long to get up when mother called us to go for help. 

There was a lot of snow that winter./Horses and sleigh were used in the funeral Cortege. The qasket was placed in the sleigh and covered with a quilt. Spring seats and boards were placed across other.~ sleigh::boxes for the family and friends to set on. 
Speakers at fatherfs funeral made the following 
	statements. 	\ 
Thomas Qriffen said," The town and Valley has lost a pro-gressive and valuable resident-.One i-.rho used his means freely in building up all community interests '! 
Frank Shumway said," I have been on intimate terms with brother Buttars and can testify that he 
was an honest man.Also- a most kindly one.Always willing to devote his time and means to help the poor^ln 
B~shop John Ra~sten said," He was a pillar in the ward in both civie and religious affairs. One of the general benefits he was active in promoting was the splended new water system. He has proved his faith by his works and has been called home to his sure reward. ( Information i'las taken from an old Herald Jouraal probly written by Peter S.Barson.) 
Father and Mother were the parents-of ten children.Six of whom are living nowJ1959.Their Births marriages and deaths are; 
Daniel D. B.20 Nov.1884 Md. Margaret Kent.D.21 Feb.l 44 Margaret S.B.25 Aug.1886 Md'. James H.Jardine D.12 Sept 1967 Melvin H. B.23 Dec .1888 Md. Agnes Jardine D .~5.JLo.~e. i'lf.: I 
	Orson M. B .18 -Apr .1891 Ivld. Elva Layne 	D .11 Ju1 951 
	Tilaybell 	B. 3 ~lay 1893 ~1d. John Griffiths D .18 May 70 
	Gover 	H.IO Dec .1895 Md JI/lary E .Godfrey (1) 24 Dec. 1966 
		~ 	IvId .Mary BO\'11es- (2) D. 
	Irwa 	B.13 May 1898 Md.Gennie Dahle 	8.4 Apr.l949 
Hattie B. B.17 Nov.1900 Md.Owen Archibald (I) Md.Abra~ Hodge (2) D. 
Archu1ious B~6 Nov. 1903 Md.David Archibald D. 
	Wallace S. B.25 1.VI[.1906 ~d.Eileen Clark 	D.20Jun.:t.957 
Father is buried in the Clarkston Cemetery.A large monument mark~his-and m0th~r~ resting place • 
r ~Fatherts~ estate was valued at about 75 thousand ~ollars. It included 840 acres of farming land, 
1035 acres of pasture land and close to lee head of rarm animals· •. 
He did not have any life Insurance. But he did iave a lot of shares ~ti worthless mining companies. 
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Father is buried on lot i 1) place 1 - Block # 6 
May 18,1978 __ There is two children living. 
Hattie and Archulious