This page is dedicated to the memory of my grandmother,
                 
VIOLA ALVINA BUTLER TROTTER

My grandmother was married at age eighteen.  By the time she was thirty-three she had given birth to five daughters and one son.  He was born in 1914, her last child and my father, Wesley Ray Trotter.

Viola's father, Joseph Benjamin Butler,  came west from Indiana to Kansas.  He fought in the American Civil War.

Her mother,  Priscilla Jane Davis Butler,  also came west to Kansas.  Her former home state was Wisconsin.

                            THIS SITE IS ALSO DEDICATED TO ALL       
                  WESTERN WOMEN
  whether they were native to the west, made the long over
   land trek, or came by ship.  They came in a variety of dress
   sizes and skin colors.  They each had their own ideas of   
   how to survive in a man's world. Each one was beautiful 
   and bore the marks of a true western hero.

To JASON T. KION,
a special thanks for his
assistance with this web
site. Viola Butler Trotter
was his Great Grandmother.