203. Carolyn Butler Skeen, the rest of the story -- sewing on a thumb, knitting mittens from a buffalo mane.
This is to follow yesterday's entry about my 2nd great grandmother, and her experiences as a true pioneer. ----------- (was blog # 72, in January, 2014) I wrote about my 2nd great grandmother, Caroline Farozine Skeen yesterday. I decided the rest of her story would be good to include now, so you can get a fuller picture of her life. This entry may be a bit longer than others -- She was born April 15, 1812, in Tennessee, the seventh child in a family of ten children. On February 3, 1831, at the age of 19 she was married to John Lowe Butler. To them 12 children were born. Most of their leisure time was spent in reading the Bible, but the religions of the day did not satisfy them. According to John's diary, he was literally thirsting of a knowledge of his Creator. He had prayed many times, very earnestly for light, until he became rather discouraged. (I'll tell more of him later.) A s an answer to their prayers, o ne evening in 1835, an invitation came to att