In memory of
Edwin Blair Butler
1922
- Their country
- United States of America
- Killed that day
- August 12, 1922, aged 50
Their life
Sheriff Edwin Blair Butler was shot while he and two other officers were serving a search warrant on a suspected moonshine operation on August 9, 1922.
Sheriff Butler was taken to the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Hospital in Clifton Forge where he died of his injuries on August 12, 1922.
His murderer was arrested the next month and at trial was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Sheriff Butler had been elected to the Office of Sheriff in 1919.
Survived by
He was survived by his wife and four children.
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