Brief Life History of Theodore Walter
When Theodore Walter Curtis was born on 29 January 1848, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, his father, Theodore Curtis, was 33 and his mother, Margaret Morgan, was 31. He married Flora Lydia Shipp on 20 November 1871, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1860. He died on 1 May 1930, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.
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- John Curtis in household of Theodore Curtis, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Theodore Walter Curtis - Church record: birth: 29 January 1848; Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
- Theodore Walter Curtis, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1860 · Abraham Lincoln Elected President
Abraham Lincoln was Elected President of the United States in November of 1860
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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: nickname for a refined person, sometimes perhaps given ironically, from Middle English, Old French courteis, courtois, curtis ‘courtly, refined, urbane’ (derivative of Old French court; see Court 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Margaret (“Maggie”) Curtis, who married B.H. Roberts, wrote about an incident involving her older brother, Theodore: In the course of time my brother, in harmony with the custom of our Church, resp …
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