Stella Curtis
Ca. 1878
PHOTO
ALBUM
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Birth Date: 24
October 1876
Birth Place: Springville,
Utah, Utah
Death Date:
23
May 1881
Burial: Provo, Utah, Utah
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FAMILY
Father: (2)SIMMONS P. CURTIS
WIFE (1)EMELINE BUCHANAN
Mother:(2)ASENATH LAWRENCE
HUSB (1)ISAAC SMITH POTTER
SIBLINGS
Martha Jane Curtis(w-1)
Enos Leroy Curtis(w-1)
John B. Curtis(w-1)
Simmons F. Curtis(w-1)
Mary Ann Curtis(w-1)
Joseph A. Curtis(w-1)
Emeline E. Curtis(w-1)
Nancy E. Curtis(w-1)
Harmon W. Curtis(w-1)
Emily Marinda Potter(h-1)
James Potter(h-1)
Rhoda Mariah Potter(h-1)
Nancy Rosella Potter(h-1)
Bertha Melissa Potter(h-1)
William W. Potter(h-1)
Seymour Brunson Curtis
Alice Blanche Curtis
Della Curtis
Stella Curtis
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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION:
Stella is a twin sister to Della Curtis Preston. Their mother
died in May of 1878, leaving the twins (19 months old) without
a mother. It is believed that the above picture (see
also PHOTO ALBUM) would have been taken within a few months
of the death of their mother. Springville census records (June
1880) show that after the death of their father, Simmons, (April
1880), when they were 3 1/2 years old, the twins were living
with their half-sister, Rhoda Potter Clyde in Springville, Utah.
Rhoda Clyde and her family moved to a small farm at the top of
Main Street in Provo (now 500 West) in late 1880 or early 1881.
According to Provo Cemetery records, Stella died of diptheria
in Provo, at 4 1/2 years of age. She was originally buried in
Block 3, lot 78, but was later moved to the family plot of her
half-sister Emily M. Potter Warner, Block 4, lot 61.
*Unmarked grave in Provo City Cememtary |
REFERENCES:
~1880 Census - Springville
~Provo Cemetery Records
~Utah County Land Abstracts
(Sec 36 T6S R2E entry 55) |
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