Clementina Rowe Butler

[3] The two pioneer missionaries established their home in the city of Bareilly, British India just ten weeks before the breaking out of the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857.

[2] Traveling day and night, through forests and jungles, in constant danger of wild beasts and from the treachery of native residents, the Butlers finally reached a place of safety in the heart of the Himalayas.

[4] Butler was one of seven women to found the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

[2] With her at the time of her death were her two daughter, Miss Clementina Butler, with whom she made her home, and Mrs. William H. Thurber of Providence, Rhode Island.

[3] The funeral services were held in her home church, which has a memorial window to Dr. William Butler, representing the Great Commission.