PATRON + Did you know Greenville, Alabama was first named Buttsville? [see vintage photographs]
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Sometimes it’s bad enough to say Walker County, knowing the judgement that begins as soon as it comes out of your mouth. At least we don’t have to say Buttsville too! Lol.
I cannot thank you enough!!!!!
Love the old pictures
Greenville has the worst Cracker Barrel ever! Just ask Buddy Brock
Lol Chuck Peak
We were there yesterday. Sat for 15 minutes and was never acknowledged
Good Lawd, can a white boy get a cup of coffee in Greenville? They got plenty of Auburn hats tho.
Linda, my parents are from Greenville !! In fact, my roots are deep in the heart of Butler county !!
WAS BECAUSE EZRA BUTTS ?
What about Central Alabama patriarchs
did not know that
Learn something new everyday! Anthony Lewis , Ledrick Crenshaw, Terrence Hall, Steven McKinney, Glennece Pond, Andrea Hawkins, Tameka Hawkins
That explains a lot
Stacey BeautifulMahogany
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Griffin Huggins Lacy Huggins Christopher Thomas Ricky Gray Rene Taylor
Wish I knew who was in the 1938-39 class pic
Wish I knew who was in the 1938-39 class pic
Too funny
Check out the article. Lots of cool pics
I always wonder about that
I heard it called Buttsville before & I thought it was a joke!
Glad to hear there was once a village named after the Butts’s. Understand that I even had a namesake sometime ago named Frank Butts.
Frank Butts
(an old rebel from Spring Hill, TN)
Samuel Butts was an ancestor of mine and was a well known Indian fighter. Butts county in Georgia near Atlanta is his namesake as well as a small town east of there. Know your history? Butts is a name of Germanic origins from the Landers district in Belgium. Shakespeare mentioned a Dr. Butts who was the personal physician to Kind Louis the fifteenth If I remember correctly. In olde English the named butts referred to an archer. Lot of history behind the name. Most of the folks whose name is Butts live in California and Ohio, but Georgia comes in third A recent candidate for Alabama attorney General was Judge Terry Butts from south Alabama. A super nice man. Wally Butts, famous University of Georgia’s football coach was a great coach there when I went to college. Live and learn. LOL
I was born in Greenville, Al. — this article says folks from Greenville, S.C. settled here and changed the name to Greenville!
Never heard this.
Nancy A. Gafford you may already know this, but found it interesting.
Tammy Braden Barg Josh Free
Saint Elizabeth Catholic Church in Greenville, Alabama is on the historic list. Built in 1910 I think.
Great information and pictures. Thanks!
I have been told that my mother, Henrietta Skipper Gardner, attended a school/college in Greenville, AL.
After reading this newsletter, I am wondering if it was the Greenville Female Academy / The Institute??
The date of her attending would have been sometimes in 1920 – 1930’s. Could anyone tell me how I may research this??
Thanks,
Shannon
Your mother would have attended Butler County High School. The Greenville Female Academy was long gone by the 1920’s.
Richard Hartley
Were the Thigpens who settled there connected to the Perry County Thigpens? I have a strong Counts/Thigpen ancestry and just wondered if anyone knows of a connection?
It’s really informative to know that Greenville, Alabama was first named Buttsville. The vintage photos of various houses brings back good memories of my house. Great information!
My dad was a slave to the Crenshaw knowing this make me sick to my stomach … white people did watever they wanted to do to us when ever they like an still does it …
I agree Tashianna. Slavery is and was very sickening. My African American roots are deeply embedded in Greenville,, Ala. When I think of the way they lived back then and the way my ancestors were treated by the back woods racist, it makes me want to throw up. That is just the way thing were back then. Those racist just didn’t know any other way but to demean people with darker skin tone than their. My great grandmother did their laundry and clean their home for little to nothing. Hopefully they moved on from then and learned to accept other’s differences. I live in Atlanta and can buy that entire little back wood’s town, where nothing ever matters there. The history is still real though. Not a black face in that picture but was there to clean up their crap I bet! SMH
A spelling correction–it should be Samuel J. Bolling instead of Samuel J. Boiling. The article list the Boiling family as one of the early pioneer so Greenville. Again the family name id Bolling, not Boiling.
I have several very old photos of the Greenville Christian Church (one was with a letter from 1889 & a color photo labeled “Greenville Christian Church” that I do not know the source, but of the same building.) This is a large red brick building with steeple section on corner. D.W. Pritchett was the pastor during and/or just after the Civil War.
I would like to find when it was built. Since I can not find any current photos, I assume it has been replaced. Also any history of the Civil War time period.
I am working on a book about my great grandfather, Dr. V.T. Chew, who was a Civil War surgeon. He possibly did some work at the Confederate Hosp, but was also a member of the Christian Church and apparently attended this one when there during the war.