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1. Title:   Certificate of Delayed Birth Registration, State of Montana, for Ada Curtis
Author:   State of Montana
Publication:   Montana : 9 March 1943
Text:   Name at birth, Ada Curtis. Date of birth, Aug. 29, 1902. Birthplace, Big Timber, Sweet Grass County, Montana. Sex, female. Father: William Rushmer Curtis; color, white; birth year 1866; birthplace, Talmage, Michigan. Mother: maiden name, Ella May Canfield; color, white; birth year 1874; birthplace, Ogden, Utah. Signature of person registered: Mrs. Ada C. Johansen. If married woman sign maiden name here also, Ada Curtis. State of California, County of Los Angeles SS. Abstract of Evidence, (1) Certificate of baptism - Date of birth, August 29, 1902. Place of birth, Big Timber, Montana. Father, W. R. Curtis. Mother, Ella M. Canfield (maiden name). (2) Insurance policy of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Age given as 35 years, (nearest birthday). Dated March 29, 1937. (3) Family Bible - date of birth recorded as August 29, 1902. Marriage recorded of William Rushmer Curtis to Ella May Canfield as of March 23, 1890, at Preston, Oneida County, Idaho. I, L. D. LeCount, a Notary Public, have examined three documents of different origins, which I have abstracted hereon, and to my best knowledge and belief the evidence submitted above is true. Subscribed and sworn to by me this 9th day of March, 1943. Registrar's No 34.
2. Title:   Obituary for Ada Curtis Johansen
Author:   Salt Lake Tribune Newspaper
3. Title:   Fran Jensen's Headstone Photograph Collection
Author:   Fran Jensen
Publication:   (Sandy, Utah: Self-published, 1980-to date)

Notes
a. Note:   nd Ella May Canfield, was named after Ada Estella West. A photograph of Ada West was among the personal possessions of Ada Curtis and written on the back of the cabinet card photograph was written the information about the namesake. Ada Curtis and Ada West were related to each other in three separate ways. First, they were 1/2 1st cousins through Adaline Amanda Wright. Second, they were 3rd cousins through Daniel West and Elizabeth Tracy. Third, they were 10th cousins, 2 times removed from Nicholas Gaylord and Johanna his wife.
Note:   Ada [Curtis] Johansen, daughter of William Rushmer Curtis a


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