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Linklaen Butin

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Linklaen Butin

Birth
Hocking County, Ohio, USA
Death
1876 (aged 49–50)
Grant County, New Mexico, USA
Burial
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Linklaen Butin's descended from a French Huguenot family that fled from Quesnoy-sur-Deûle, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France to England, then the Cadzland, Zeeland, The Netherlands in 1694. His grandparents, Jannis Butin and Madeleine Albert, lived in Groede and Cadzand at a farm called Beer Hoeve, and Amsterdam. In 1794 they migragated to New York and settled near Cazenovia, New York. His father migranted to Hocking Co., OH where Linklaen was born and named after a prominent Dutch family with the Linklaen last name from Cazenovia, NY. (Quist, The Butins in America) His mother's ancestors were Dutch and English.

Mexican War: (Regiment Unknown)

His residence in Placerville was the result of his journey to El Dorado County on the Flint River Company wagon train from Des Moines County, Iowa in 1850. (Flint River Company of 1850, https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=61161417A6429B1A!115&authkey=!AKdaqsF6LhCZYOY&ithint=folder%2cpdf)

Civil War: Co. G, 5th California Infantry & Co. G, 1st California Veteran Infantry

Lanklaen Butin (Orton: Linklain Bulin) enlisted as a private at Placerville, California, October 1, 1861, and was mustered into Company G, 5th California Infantry, October 14 (Orton, 704). Private Butin was posted to New Mexico Territory in 1863 and where he re-enlisted January 1, 1864. He was transferred to Company G, 1st California Veteran Infantry, November 27, 1864. Private Butin was mustered out at Los Pinos, New Mexico Territory, September 15, 1866 (Orton, 413). After the war he remained in Grant County New Mexico. He married Candelaria Salcido. Her maiden name was Ontiveros. This was her second marriage. She was born about 1842 in Chihuahua, Mexico. He appears as a resident of Pinos Altos (outside Mesilla) in the 1870 US Census, along with Candelaria and their four children (ages ranging from 1 month to 7 years). He owned a mining claim in the Pinos Alto District of Grant County, New Mexico. Linklaen died at Pinos Altos in 1876. Candelaria filed for a Civil War widow's pension in New Mexico April 9, 1897, and received application No. 651,772 and certificate No. 555,834. Linklaen is mentioned in Darlis A. Miller's, "The California Column in New Mexico" (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1982), pp. 6 (nativity Holland), 9 (Mex. War Vet.), 197 (family and death), 212 (Grand Juror), and his widow, p. 197. At least one of Linklaen's brothers was also Civil War veteran, Sgt. Jacob E. Butin (Co. H, 5th Ohio Cavalry).
Linklaen Butin's descended from a French Huguenot family that fled from Quesnoy-sur-Deûle, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France to England, then the Cadzland, Zeeland, The Netherlands in 1694. His grandparents, Jannis Butin and Madeleine Albert, lived in Groede and Cadzand at a farm called Beer Hoeve, and Amsterdam. In 1794 they migragated to New York and settled near Cazenovia, New York. His father migranted to Hocking Co., OH where Linklaen was born and named after a prominent Dutch family with the Linklaen last name from Cazenovia, NY. (Quist, The Butins in America) His mother's ancestors were Dutch and English.

Mexican War: (Regiment Unknown)

His residence in Placerville was the result of his journey to El Dorado County on the Flint River Company wagon train from Des Moines County, Iowa in 1850. (Flint River Company of 1850, https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=61161417A6429B1A!115&authkey=!AKdaqsF6LhCZYOY&ithint=folder%2cpdf)

Civil War: Co. G, 5th California Infantry & Co. G, 1st California Veteran Infantry

Lanklaen Butin (Orton: Linklain Bulin) enlisted as a private at Placerville, California, October 1, 1861, and was mustered into Company G, 5th California Infantry, October 14 (Orton, 704). Private Butin was posted to New Mexico Territory in 1863 and where he re-enlisted January 1, 1864. He was transferred to Company G, 1st California Veteran Infantry, November 27, 1864. Private Butin was mustered out at Los Pinos, New Mexico Territory, September 15, 1866 (Orton, 413). After the war he remained in Grant County New Mexico. He married Candelaria Salcido. Her maiden name was Ontiveros. This was her second marriage. She was born about 1842 in Chihuahua, Mexico. He appears as a resident of Pinos Altos (outside Mesilla) in the 1870 US Census, along with Candelaria and their four children (ages ranging from 1 month to 7 years). He owned a mining claim in the Pinos Alto District of Grant County, New Mexico. Linklaen died at Pinos Altos in 1876. Candelaria filed for a Civil War widow's pension in New Mexico April 9, 1897, and received application No. 651,772 and certificate No. 555,834. Linklaen is mentioned in Darlis A. Miller's, "The California Column in New Mexico" (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1982), pp. 6 (nativity Holland), 9 (Mex. War Vet.), 197 (family and death), 212 (Grand Juror), and his widow, p. 197. At least one of Linklaen's brothers was also Civil War veteran, Sgt. Jacob E. Butin (Co. H, 5th Ohio Cavalry).


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