From the Thursday, May 30, 1861, edition of the Lowell Daily Citizen and News:
"Funeral of John Butterworth. Notwithstanding the unpropitious weather at noon yesterday, there was a very large turnout of the (New York) Fire Department to perform the last sad rites of burial to a brother fireman, who had been killed while acting in defense of his country's flag. At 1:00 PM the procession .... left Hurd Street and proceeded directly to the house of B.(Benjamin) S. Butterworth, brother of the deceased on Lawrence Street. ... Ceremony at St. Paul's (Episcopal) Church. The body of young Butterworth was deposited in the Old Burial Ground by the side of his mother."
John was a member of the Oceanus Fire Engine Co. No. 11 of New York City.
He was a member of Ellsworth's Fire Zouaves and fighting with them in the first battle of Bull Run in the Civil War when he was killed in that battle at Alexandria, Virginia.
From The June 5, 1861, edition of the Lowell Daily Citizen and News:
"Killed -John Butterworth, of the Zouaves, felled by the musket of a sentinel, was originally of this city ..."
Sources, various historical newspapers.
"Funeral of John Butterworth. Notwithstanding the unpropitious weather at noon yesterday, there was a very large turnout of the (New York) Fire Department to perform the last sad rites of burial to a brother fireman, who had been killed while acting in defense of his country's flag. At 1:00 PM the procession .... left Hurd Street and proceeded directly to the house of B.(Benjamin) S. Butterworth, brother of the deceased on Lawrence Street. ... Ceremony at St. Paul's (Episcopal) Church. The body of young Butterworth was deposited in the Old Burial Ground by the side of his mother."
John was a member of the Oceanus Fire Engine Co. No. 11 of New York City.
He was a member of Ellsworth's Fire Zouaves and fighting with them in the first battle of Bull Run in the Civil War when he was killed in that battle at Alexandria, Virginia.
From The June 5, 1861, edition of the Lowell Daily Citizen and News:
"Killed -John Butterworth, of the Zouaves, felled by the musket of a sentinel, was originally of this city ..."
Sources, various historical newspapers.
From the Thursday, May 30, 1861, edition of the Lowell Daily Citizen and News:
"Funeral of John Butterworth. Notwithstanding the unpropitious weather at noon yesterday, there was a very large turnout of the (New York) Fire Department to perform the last sad rites of burial to a brother fireman, who had been killed while acting in defense of his country's flag. At 1:00 PM the procession .... left Hurd Street and proceeded directly to the house of B.(Benjamin) S. Butterworth, brother of the deceased on Lawrence Street. ... Ceremony at St. Paul's (Episcopal) Church. The body of young Butterworth was deposited in the Old Burial Ground by the side of his mother."
John was a member of the Oceanus Fire Engine Co. No. 11 of New York City.
He was a member of Ellsworth's Fire Zouaves and fighting with them in the first battle of Bull Run in the Civil War when he was killed in that battle at Alexandria, Virginia.
From The June 5, 1861, edition of the Lowell Daily Citizen and News:
"Killed -John Butterworth, of the Zouaves, felled by the musket of a sentinel, was originally of this city ..."
Sources, various historical newspapers.
"Funeral of John Butterworth. Notwithstanding the unpropitious weather at noon yesterday, there was a very large turnout of the (New York) Fire Department to perform the last sad rites of burial to a brother fireman, who had been killed while acting in defense of his country's flag. At 1:00 PM the procession .... left Hurd Street and proceeded directly to the house of B.(Benjamin) S. Butterworth, brother of the deceased on Lawrence Street. ... Ceremony at St. Paul's (Episcopal) Church. The body of young Butterworth was deposited in the Old Burial Ground by the side of his mother."
John was a member of the Oceanus Fire Engine Co. No. 11 of New York City.
He was a member of Ellsworth's Fire Zouaves and fighting with them in the first battle of Bull Run in the Civil War when he was killed in that battle at Alexandria, Virginia.
From The June 5, 1861, edition of the Lowell Daily Citizen and News:
"Killed -John Butterworth, of the Zouaves, felled by the musket of a sentinel, was originally of this city ..."
Sources, various historical newspapers.
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