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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Grant County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Joe T. Butler ably represents in his section the medical fraternity of Grant County. Born in Oglethorpe County, Ga., March 19, 1856, he is the son of Thomas G. and Martha A. (Stephens) Butler, natives of Georgia. The father is now a resident of Hot Spring County, this State. His wife died in 1883, when forty-eight years of age. After her death, Mr. Butler married Mattie Simerall. When but a young man Thomas Butler began the study of medicine, graduating in due time from Augusta Medical College. Since his graduation he has been continually practicing, with excellent and gratifying success. He came to Arkansas in 1859, locating in what was formerly Prairie but afterward Lonoke County. Here he practiced until the year 1882, when he settled at Malvern. He has gained an enviable reputation as a physician, being thorough in every respect, and toward the unfortunate is charitably disposed and very liberal. He is a member of the Masonic order and the Democratic party. Ten children were born to his first marriage, Joe T. (our subject) being the second child. Receiving his education at Butlersville, at the age of seventeen, Joe T. Butler began the study of medicine with his father as tutor. In 1879 and in 1880 he attended lectures at the Hospital College at Louisville, Ky., and in 1880 came to his present location. Devoting his whole time to medicine, he has built up an extensive practice, almost more than one man can attend to, ample evidence of his popularity. January 13, 1876, he was married to Anna V. Neely, a daughter of Henry Neeley, of Marshall County, Miss. By this union there were six children: Lynn, Vida, Ethyl, Amyl, Osee and Bera. The Doctor and wife are members of the Missionary Baptist Church. He is also a member of the Masonic order. Being a Democrat he has served as postmaster at Grape Vine for three years, honorably and satisfactorily. He was also in the drug business for four years, and has belonged to the Grant County Medical Examining Board, since its organization in 1882.

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