William O. Butler Greathouse ¹

   Another name for William was William O.Butler Marrs.

  Notes:

For years we listed this child as Willaim Berryman Greathouse. The legitimization papers and oral family history confirm the name Willaim O. Butler Greathouse.


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  Details of his life include:

• Legitimated: by Josiah Greathouse, 15 Jan 1848, , Warren County, Kentucky. ²
Acts of the General Assembly of The Commonwealth of Kentucky:
Passed at December Session, 1847.
CHAPTER 33.
AN ACT to change the names of E. H. Marrs, C. W. Marrs, W. 0. B. Marrs, and others.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That upon the petition of Josiah Greathouse, of the county of Warren, acknowledging himself to be the father of Elijah Hise Marrs, Charles Warren Marrs, and William O. Butler Marrs, illegitimate children of Sarah Marrs, the names of said children are hereby changed to Elijah Hise Greathouse, Charles Warren Greathouse, and William O. Butler Greathouse, and each and every of them are legitimated and made capable of inheritance, in law and in equity, to all the lands and tenements, goods and chattels, rights and credits, of said Josiah Greathouse, in as full and ample a manner as if they, and each of them, had been severally born in lawful wedlock.

Approved January 15, 1848.

• He appeared on the 1850 U. S. Federal census in Second District, Warren County, Kentucky
In Josiah Greathouse household
William, 3 m, b. Kentucky

• Photo courtesy of J. Eric Thomason

William married Rebecca Sarah E. Morphew, daughter of Josire C. Morphew and Elizabeth, on 27 Nov 1873 in Adolphus, Allen County, Kentucky.¹ (Rebecca Sarah E. Morphew was born on 16 Dec 1855 in , , Tennessee,¹ died on 10 Feb 1939 in Middlebridge, Warren County, Kentucky ¹ and was buried in Pleasant Hill Christian Church, Warren County, Kentucky ¹.)