BUTLER, Mary Elizabeth

• Name	BUTLER, Mary Elizabeth
  Gender	Female
  Person ID	I4353	Ward and Related Families of Nova Scotia and North Yorkshire
  Last Modified	24 Jun 2021

  
  

  Family	PEEK, Ebenezer Berkeley,   b. Abt 1805, New York, New York, United States d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Jul 1838	Savannah, Chatham, Georgia, United States   [1]
  Children	1. PEEK, Mary Harriett,   b. Apr 1839, New Orleans, Louisianna, United States d. Yes, date unknown   2. PEEK, Henry Thomas,   b. 3 May 1840, New York, New York, United States d. 3 Dec 1899, Savannah, Chatham, Georgia, United States (Age 59 years)   3. PEEK, Charles,   b. 1841, New Orleans, Louisianna, United States d. 1841, New Orleans, Louisianna, United States (Age 0 years)   4. PEEK, Eben B.,   b. 1843, New Orleans, Louisianna, United States d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F979	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Oct 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Madison Wisconsin pioneer settler, b. Rutland County, Vt. She moved to Blue Mounds, Wisconsin Territory, in 1836, and in Apr., 1837, became the first white woman settler in Madison. She was the mother of Victoria Wisconsiana Peck, the first white child born in Madison. In 1837 the Pecks built an inn in Madison to lodge the workmen building the new capitol, and in 1840 the family moved to Baraboo. There, her husband having abandoned her and left for the California gold fields, Mrs. Peck farmed and supported her family for many years. She later wrote several vivid accounts of her frontier life. Proc. State Hist. Soc. Wis., 1900 (1901); Colls. State Hist. Soc. Wis., 6 (1872); F. C. Dexheimer, comp., Sketches of Wis. Pioneer Women [Ft. Atkinson, 1925]; Milwaukee Sentinel, Oct. 22, 1899; WPA MS.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1936] Source #1936.