LA SAR Galvez Chapter and LA DAR Chapters Dorcheat – Bistineau, Claiborne, and Pelican sponsored the annual wreath presentation ceremony to pay respect and honor to Revolutionary Ancestor/Patriot Jethro Butler on April 18, 2023. Patriot Jethro Butler was born in Bertie County, North Carolina in 1761. He moved to South Carolina when he was very young and he enlisted at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. He served as a private, spy, and fifer in the South Carolina Troops.
He fought in numerous battles from 1775 through 1781 and was taken prisoner during an expedition to Florida. He was then commissioned a Captain in the South Carolina militia. After the war he migrated to Louisiana via Georgia and Mississippi. He was a farmer in Claiborne Parish and died on April 9, 1841. He was survived by his children. Numerous descendants still reside in the general area. The SAR wreath was presented by a direct descendant of Jethro Butler, John Peters. There was a total of eleven DAR and SAR members present.
