[Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler by Pardee Butler]@TWC D-Link bookPersonal Recollections of Pardee Butler CHAPTER XXVII 2/12
He only remained in Kansas a few years, and then returned to his original home in Rushville, Rush county, Indiana.
We may truthfully say, "What was our loss was their gain." Bro.
Byler was simply a large-hearted and kind-natured farmer from Missouri, who was too full of brotherly love to have anything of sectional prejudice about him.
George W.Hutchinson, whom we will hereafter introduce to our readers, used to call him his "Big _Boiler_." His death after a few years was sad and pathetic; he had been to Lecompton and driving a spirited horse; the horse took fright, and threw him from his buggy and killed him. Jack Reeves was the son of B.F.Reeves, of Flat Rock, Ind., so long the venerated elder of that church, and a sort of patriarch over all the churches.
And the above-named brethren, as well as a number of others, hearing that I was preaching near the Missouri River, sent for me to come and make them a visit.
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