Flora Lydia Shipp

Brief Life History of Flora Lydia

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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Family Time Line

Henry James Hill
1847–
Flora Lydia Shipp
1848–1905
Marriage: 8 October 1879
Chester Hill
1880–1880
Harry C. Hill
1881–1882

Sources (26)

  • Flora S Shipp, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Flora L. S. Curtis, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
  • Flora S Shipp, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"

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World Events (8)

1856

Historical Boundaries: 1856: Iron, Utah Territory, United States 1856: Beaver, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Beaver, Utah, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1865

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

Name Meaning

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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AUSTIN SHIPP

Austin Shipp was born on May 5, 1808 in Campbellsville, Green, Kentucky, United States. He was the 10th child of Richard Shipp and Mary Copeland. He had five sisters and six brothers. He must have …

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