Brief Life History of Thomas Montravello
When Thomas Montravello Butts was born on 25 December 1845, in New York, United States, his father, Perry Butts, was 29 and his mother, Emeline Clapsaddle, was 32. He married Almyra Fedelia Dickinson in 1867, in Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in New York County, New York, United States in 1860 and Hillsdale, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States in 1860. He died on 7 January 1917, in Burlington, Burlington Township, Calhoun, Michigan, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Abscota Cemetery, Burlington, Burlington Township, Calhoun, Michigan, United States.
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- Thomas Butts in household of Terry Butts, "United States Census, 1850"
- Thomas Bulls, "Michigan, County Births, 1867-1917"
- Thomas Montravello Butts, "Michigan Deaths and Burials, 1800-1995"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1847 · Moving the State Capital
The capital of Michigan was moved from Detroit to Lansing on March 17, 1847. The capital was moved to be further away from Canada, to encourage settlement and boost economy toward the inner regions of the state, and to make to capital more accessible to everyone statewide.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Name Meaning
variant of Butt , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
topographic name from Middle English buttes, either a reference to the short ridges of plowed land at the edge of a common arable field, or the plural form of butt ‘tree stump’ or ‘mound, hillock, archery butt’. See Butt 2.
English:
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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