Lula M. Butts

Brief Life History of Lula M.

When Lula M. Butts was born on 14 November 1871, in Homer, Calhoun, Michigan, United States, her father, Thomas Montravello Butts, was 25 and her mother, Almyra Fedelia Dickinson, was 23. She died on 11 October 1876, in her hometown, at the age of 4.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Montravello Butts
1845–1917
Almyra Fedelia Dickinson
1848–1929
Lula M. Butts
1871–1876
Birdie Ella Butts
1875–1962
Neela Patricia Butts
1877–1952
Franklin Montravello Butts
1888–1942

Sources (8)

  • Lula M Bulls, "Michigan, County Births, 1867-1917"
  • Julia May Butts, "Michigan Deaths, 1867-1897"
  • Thomas Butts in entry for Lula M. Butts, "Michigan Births, 1867-1902"

World Events (3)

1872 · The First National Park

Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.

1872 · The Amnesty Act

A federal law which reversed most of the penalties on former Confederate soldiers by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Act affected over 150,000 troops that were a part of the Civil War.

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

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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