Blanche Butler Ames
Born: March 2, 1847
Birthplace: Lowell, Massachusetts
Father: Major General Benjamin Franklin Butler 1818 – 1893
(Buried: Hildreth Family Cemetery, Lowell, Massachusetts)
Mother: Sarah Jones Hildreth 1816 – 1876
(Buried: Hildreth Family Cemetery, Lowell, Massachusetts)
Husband: Brig. General Adelbert Ames 1835 – 1933
(Buried: Hildreth Family Cemetery, Lowell, Massachusetts)
Married: July 21, 1870 in Lowell, Massachusetts
Children:
US Congressman Butler Ames 1871 – 1954
(Buried: Hildreth Family Cemetery, Lowell, Massachusetts)
Edith Ames Stevens 1873 – 1958
(Buried: Hildreth Family Cemetery, Lowell, Massachusetts)
Sarah Hildreth Ames 1874 – 1931
(Buried: Hildreth Family Cemetery, Lowell, Massachusetts)
Blanche Ames 1878 – 1969
(Buried: Village Cemetery, Easton, Massachusetts)
Adelbert Ames Jr. 1880 – 1955
(Buried: Dartmouth College Cemetery, Hanover, New Hampshire)
Life Events:
Attended Academy of Visitation in Washington, D.C.
Her father served as Major General in the Union Army
1867 – 1875: Daughter of U.S. Congressman Benjamin Butler
1870 – 1874: Wife of U.S. Senator Adelbert Ames of Mississippi
1874 – 1876: First Lady of Mississippi
1877 – 1879: Daughter of U.S. Congressman Benjamin Butler
1883 – 1884: Daughter of the Governor of Massachusetts
1884: Her father was unsuccessful for his run for U.S. President
1895: Detailed an account of the Butler Family Ancestry
1933 – 1939: Widow of Brigadier General Adelbert Ames
Compiled a collection of letters to her husband
1957: Her letters were published as Chronicles from the Nineteenth Century: Family letters of Blanche Butler and Adelbert Ames
Died: December 26, 1939
Place of Death: Winter Home at Ormond Beach, Florida
Age at time of Death: 92 years old
Burial Place: Hildreth Family Cemetery, Lowell, Massachusetts
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