Sarah Ann Tripp

Brief Life History of Sarah Ann

When Sarah Ann Tripp was born on 3 May 1845, in Northumberland, Canada West, British North America, her father, Ezra Woodworth Tripp, was 39 and her mother, Catherine Bilow, was 42. She married Thomas Douglas Butts on 28 September 1863, in Kinmount, Northumberland, Upper Canada, British North America. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Klamath Falls, Klamath, Oregon, United States in 1930 and Judicial Township 1, Shasta, California, United States in 1940. She died on 4 October 1941, in Redding, Shasta, California, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Redding, Shasta, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Douglas Butts
1845–1898
Sarah Ann Tripp
1845–1941
Marriage: 28 September 1863
James Isburt Butts
1867–1937
Thomas Ezra Butts
1869–1939
Isaac Henry Butts
1872–1957
Butts
1874–1874
George Wesley Butts
1875–1948
Henry Herbert Butts
1878–1952
Edith Butts
1881–1946
Randolph Wallace Butts
1884–1905
Gertrude M. Butts
1885–
Clayton David Butts
1888–1966

Sources (31)

  • Sarah Ann Tripp, "Canada, Census, 1851"
  • Sarah Butts, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
  • Sarah Ann Brower, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1867

Historical Boundaries 1867 - 1882: Lake, Oregon, United States 1882: Klamath, Oregon, United States

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

English: from Middle English trip(pe) (n) ‘(to) dance; stumble’ (Old French tripe(r)), either an occupational name for a dancer, or a nickname for someone who had difficulty walking.

English: metonymic occupational name from Middle English trip(e) ‘tripe’ (Old French tripe).

German: metonymic occupational name for a maker of wooden pattens (trippe), a type of raised sole that could be strapped to normal footwear for walking in unpaved muddy streets.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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