Butler, Clark Spencer

Butler, Clark Spencer a Baptist minister, was born in Montgomery County, ;N. C., April 4, 1825. When about five years old he moved with his parents to Carroll County, Tenn., where he spent the most of his life. .He was a soldier in the Mexican war. In 1847 he united with the Church, was ordained in April, 1853, and for nearly twenty years was a faithful and laborious minister. Being a farmer and poor, he :had to labor hard for a support, the churches which he served rendering him but little pecuniary aid. He died Oct. 6, 1872. See Borum, Sketches of Tenn. Ministers, p. 56, 58. (J. C. S.)