General William Butler had another aunt, Susan Butler, who
married Enoch Grigsby. Mr. Grigsby lived near Mount Willing on the
plantation occupied in 1891 by Dr. Unger. He left one son, Colonel
Rhyden Grigsby, and four daughters. One of these daughters married
Captain Jonathan Wever; one General Samuel Mays, of Big Saluda; one
Lod Hill, who lived near Richardsonville in the Revolution; Thomas
Butler, a brother of General Butler, married another. Lod Hill
left two sons, Theophilus and Henry; and a daughter, who married
Captain Bryant Dean, the father of Colonel A. B. Dean and Captain
Theophilus Dean. Henry Hill was the father of Dr. Lovett Hill, of
Ward, and the grandfather of John B. Hill, School Commissioner in
1891. Did he not also have a son named James? Theophilus Hill was
the father of Lod Hill and Johnston; Dr. Walter Hill, of the court
house; James R. Hill, of Richardsonville; Ben Hill, Dyson’s; and a
son Thomas, who was killed in the War of Secession. Captain Offie
Dean, just mentioned, was living in 1891 at Mount Enon, in the
house built by Dr. J. C. Ready. Many years ago Captain Dean was
tax collector for the District, and may also have held other
positions.
Colonel Rhyden Grigsby and Colonel Simpson Wilson married
sisters, the Misses Manning. Their brother, Luke, a very
celebrated character in his day, is said to have killed three men
in South Carolina, for which he was tried and found guilty of
murder, but was reprieved each time. He finally went to Alabama,
and there having killed a man, he was tried, found guilty of
murder, and suffered the extreme penalty of the law. Colonel
Grigsby died of consumption and his sons removed to Alabama. A Mr.
Herbert, and John and Thomas Waters married his daughters.
