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| Dr. Oscar Butcher was the eldest son of Baliss G. and Patsy McNeil Butcher, and was born in Randolph County, December 24, 1820. He moved to Indiana with his father and studied medicine under Dr. Creigh, of Delphi, that state, and later attended medical lectures in Chicago. He returned to Virginia and commenced the practice of medicine at Falling Springs, Greenbrier County. he married Sarah J. Beard of that county May 16,1849. In 1851, he moved to Green Bank, Pocahontas County, where he practiced until he moved to Huttonsville, this county, in 1860. He practiced at Huttonsville until the outbreak of the war, when he became identified with the Confederate Army. He was with the advance on Elkwater and Cheat Mountain, also at Stewart Run and Camp Bartow and Alleghany Mountain. In declining health for several years, he died at Lockwillow, in Augusta County, December 21, 1861. Although always in delicate health, he was energetic and a very successful physician. |