Timeline of the William Rushmer Curtis family

• 1866 - William Rushmer Curtis was born In Tallmadge, Michigan
• 1874 - Ella May Canfield was born in Ogden, Utah
• 1884 - some of the Benjamin Kingman Curtis family moved to Logan, Utah from their home in Michigan
• 1890 March - William and Ella May were married in Preston, Idaho
• 1890 Dec 14th - Sarah Lavantia Card, William Rushmer Curtis' mother died in Logan, Utah
• 1890 Dec 31st - Rushmer Guy Curtis was born in Ogden, Utah
• 1892 - Lovantia Curtis was born in Preston, Idaho
• 1893 - Grace Adaline Curtis was born in Preston, Idaho
• 1895 - Florence Albertha was born in Big Timber, Montana
• 1897 - Floyd Augustus was born in Big Timber, Montana
• 1899 January - Luella Curtis was born in Big Timber, Montana
• 1899 March - Floyd Augustus died in Big Timber, Montana
• 1901 - Delbert Canfield Curtis was born in Big Timber, Montana
• 1902 August - Ada Curtis was born in Big Timber, Montana
• 1902 December - Benjamin Kingman Curtis, William Rushmer Curtis' father died at Preston, Idaho
• 1904 - Reed Josiah Curtis was born in Big Timber, Montana
• 1906 April - the family moved to Parker, Fremont Co., Idhao
• 1906 May - Etta May Curtis was born in Parker, Fremont Co., Idaho
• 1907 - Ina Curtis was born in Parker, Fremont Co., Idaho
• 1910 March - the family moved back to Big Timber, Sweet Grass Co., Montana
• 1910 October - Orpha Curtis was born in Big Timber, Montana
• 1914 - Lovantia married Victor Wilhelm Roth at Bonner Co., Idaho
• 1915 - Florence Albertha Curtis married Clifford Ulysses Brown at Big Timber, Montana
• 1916 - the family built a new home in Big Timber, Montana
• 1917 March (in the Spring) - Ella May and the three youngest daughters, Etta, Ina, and Orpha moved to Long Beach, California due to Ella's declining health
• 1917 May - Grace Adaline Curtis married John Cleveland Dearth at Webb, Jasper Co., Missouri
• 1918 - Rushmer Guy married Teresa Morrice, place unknown, later divorced
• 1919 - Lovantia married Laverne Bently Shafer, but the marriage ended in divorce. No known children.
• 1921 - Luella Curtis married Harold Edwin Christensen, place unknown
• 1922 - Delbert Canfield Curtis married Kathleen Miller, later divorced, no known children
• 1925 - Ina Curtis married Alton Porter Spongberg, place unknown
• 1925 - Reed Josiah Curtis married Mildred Evelyn Simpson in Fresno, California
• 1927 - Ada Curtis married Johan Roy Tolve Johansen in Santa Ana, Orange Co., California
• 1930 - Orpha Curtis married Edward Harold Sidlitz, place unknown
• 1933 - Etta May Curtis married Robert Medford Berglund, later divorced
• 1937 - Lovantia married Frank Alonza Sinks, place unknown
• 1938 - William Rushmer Curtis died at age 72 in Long Beach, California
• 1941 - Etta May Curtis married March Roland Hindman, no known children
• 1942 - Delbert Canfield Curtis married Garnet Ravalli Prewin, no known children
• 1945 - Orpha Curtis married Walter George Reuter, place unknown, no known children
• 1947 - Grace Adaline Curtis died at age 53 in Los Angeles Co., California; burial place unknown
• 1949 - Rushmer Guy married Annie Elizabeth Gather Bowerman, no known children
• 1951 - Ella May Canfield Curtis died at age 77 in Long Beach, California
• 1961 - Reed Josiah Curtis died at age 83 in Oregon and was buried at Clovis Cemetery in Clovis, Fresno, California
• 1965 - Luella Curtis died at age 66 in Los Angeles Co., California; burial place unknown
• 1965 - Orpha Curtis died at age 54 in Los Angeles Co., buried at Long Beach, California
• 1965 - Reed Josiah Curtis married Dona Blanche Waters
• 1968 - Delbert Canfield Curtis died at age 67, place unknown, burial place unknown
• 1971 - Reed Josiah Curtis married Mildred A. Truesdale
• 1973 - Florence Curtis died at age 77 in Salt Lake City; buried at Monroe, Sevier Co., Utah
• 1977 - Lovantia Curtis died at age 85 at Long Beach, and was buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, Los Angeles Co., California
• 1977 - Rushmer Guy Curtis died at age 86 in Escondido, San Diego Co., California; Buried at Sunnyside Memorial Gardens in Escondido
• 1993 - Ada Curtis died at age 91 in Sandy, Utah; buried at Valhalla Mortuary, Burbank, California
• 1998 - Etta May Curtis died at age 92 in Fallbrook, San Diego Co., California. Buried where?
• 1999 - Ina Curtis died at age 92 in Reedley, Fresno Co., California. Buried where?
  

the Nick and Ella Curtis family

This photograph often appears in the homes of descendants from William Rushmer Curtis and Ella May Canfield. This is their family portrait with eight of their children. William and Ella had twelve children, including a son named Floyd Augustus who passed away just two months shy of being two years old. Based upon the ages of the children in this photo, we assume the eight children pictured are the first eight out of nine who were living about 1905 when this photo was likely taken.

• Rushmer Guy Curtis (standing, centered between mother and father)
  
• Lovantia Curtis - unidentified, but one of the three oldest girls in the photo
  
• Grace Adaline Curtis - unidentified, but one of the three oldest girls in the photo
  
• Florence Albertha Curtis - unidentified, but one of the three oldest girls in the photo
• Luella Curtis - (standing on the far right in front)
  
• Delbert Curtis - (standing in front of father)
  
• Ada Curtis - (standing in front, on the left by her mother)
  
• Reed Josiah Curtis - (seated on mother's lap, about one year old)

If the age estimate is right for Reed Josiah, then this picture was taken about 1905. One thing that Ada always talked about on days that she thought about her mother was the fact that she was raised as an only child but ended up having twelve children. Ella May was raised as an only child because her brother passed away when he was a baby. Ada would always say how amazed she was that her mother raised twelve children after being raised as an only child.  

William Rushmer Curtis family

From Benjamin Kingman Curtis

William Rushmer Curtis and his wife Ella May Canfield wife five of their children. The original was a postcard photograph. The family is standing on their farm in Big Timber, Sweet Grass county, Montana. The girl in ringlets is Ada. The young boy is Reed Josiah. The young girl on the left of Ada is Ina and on her right is Etta. The youngest girl in front is Orpha.

William Rushmer Curtis family

This photograph was taken in 1924 at 222 East 56th Street in Long Beach, California at the home of William Rushmer Curtis and his wife Ella May Canfield. From left to right are:

Orpha Curtis, 14 years old, 1910-1965

Reed Josiah Curtis, 20 years old, 1904-1987
Ina Curtis, 17 years old, 1907-1999
Ada Curtis, 22 years old, 1902-1993
Etta May Curtis, 18 years old, 1906-1998
Rushmer Guy Curtis, 34 years old, 1890-1977
Florence Albertha Curtis, 29 years old, 1895-1973
Luella Curtis, 25 years old, 1899 - 1965
William Rushmer (Nick) Curtis, 58 years old, 1866 - 1938
Ella May (Canfield) Curtis, 50 years old, 1874 - 1951
Delbert Canfield Curtis, 23 years old, 1901 - 1968
Grace Adaline Curtis, 31 years old, 1893 - 1947

William Rushmer Curtis family

My grandfather was a scrapbooker and family photographer. This is one page from one of his many scrapbooks. The subject of this particular scrapbook was the Curtis family, including siblings, nieces and nephews of his wife Ada Curtis.