When Flora Lydia Shipp was born on 3 January 1848, in Edinburgh, Blue River Township, Johnson, Indiana, United States, her father, Austin Clifford Shipp, was 39 and her mother, Louisa Caroline Farnsworth, was 30. She married Theodore Walter Curtis on 20 November 1871, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Blue River Township, Johnson, Indiana, United States in 1850 and Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States in 1880. She died on 15 December 1905, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1856: Iron, Utah Territory, United States 1856: Beaver, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Beaver, Utah, United States
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English:
nickname for a mariner or perhaps a boatbuilder, from Middle English schip ‘ship’. Compare Shipman .
in addition, the name may occasionally also have been topographic or habitational, referring to a house or inn distinguished by the sign of a ship. Surnames derived from house and inn signs are rare in English.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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