Sarah Markley Kulp

Birth Name Sarah Markley Kulp
Gender female
Age at Death about 86 years, 11 months

Narrative

Thomas Billups' nephew, Charles Hamilton, said that Sarah was from Rahn 's Station/Iron Bridge, Pennsylvania. Sarah is with her family on the 1880 Census, age 1, in Perkiomen, Montgomery Co., PA. Rahn's Station was a villiage of Perkiomen Township. Its name was changed to Iron Bridge about 1881.

Her sister Mary was living with Sarah and Thomas in 1931 in St. Petersburg, FL, when she (Mary) died. Source: The (St. Petersburg) Evening Independent, Aug 5, 1931, image at news.google.com.

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth about 1879 Pennsylvania, United States   1
Census (Employee) April 19, 1910 Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States   2a
Event Note

1910 Census, Ward 6 Norristown, PA
State Hospital for the Insane, Southeastern District of Pennsylvania
April 19, 1910

Thomas F Billups, 30, single, born in Pennsylvania, parents in England, cook
same place,different page of census
Sarah Culp, 30, single, born in Pennsylvania, parents also, seamstress [indexed as Tulp, on sheet 19B of original census pages]

Census (Wife) 1920 Perkiomen Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States   3a
Event Note

1920 Census Perkiomen, Montgomery, Pennsylvania;
Roll: Series T625, Roll 1606, Page 8B, Enumeration District 155.
[indexed as Billips at ancestry.com]

Billips, Thomas, 43, PA ENG ENG, Marketer, own shop
------, Sarah, 40, PA x 3,
------, Virginia, 3 8/12, PA x3

Residence (Wife) from 1922 to 1935 St. Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida, United States   4a
Event Note

1920 St Petersburg City Directory
no Thomas F Billups

1922 St Petersburg City Directory
Thomas F (Sarah) Billups, cook, resides 910 Tangerine

1924 St Petersburg City Directory
no Thomas F Billups

1925 St Petersburg City Directory
Thomas (Sarah) Billups chef home 989 Wood Street

1926 St Petersburg City Directory
Thomas F (Sara) Bilups [sic] cook Betty's Cafeteria home 1009 1/2 7th Avenue N

1927
no Thomas F Billups

1928 St Petersburg City Directory
Thomas F (Sarah) Billups, chef home 829 Kinyon

1929 St Petersburg City Directory
Thomas F (Sarah) Billups, chef home 847 Highland St N

1930 St Petersburg City Directory
Thomas F (Sarah) Billups chef Senior High School Cafeteria home 847 Highland St N

1931 St Petersburg City Directory
Thomas F (Sara M) Billups cook home 847 Highland N

no 1932 Directory

1933 St Petersburg City Directory
Thomas F (Sara M) Billups chef home 847 Highland N
Virginia R Billups resides 847 Highland St N

1934 St Petersburg City Directory
Thomas F (Sara M) Billups chef Peck's Drug Store resides 847 Highland St N

1935 St Petersburg City Directory
Thomas F (Sara M) Billups baker resides 847 Highland St N
Virginia R Billups resides 847 Highland St N

Census (Wife) April 1, 1930 St. Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida, United States 847 Highland Street 3b
Event Note

1930 Census, Saint Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida, ED 52-3, sheet 15A
Apr 1, 1930

[indexed as Bilsups at familysearch.org and ancestry.com]

renting for $20 at 847 Highland Street

Thomas Billups, 46, married 1st at 31, born in Pennsylvania, parents in England, chef, high school
Sarah Billups, 46, married 1st at 31, born in Pennsylvania, parents also, assistant chef, high school
Virginia R Billups, 13, born in Pennsylvania, parents also

United States Census, 1930", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SBW3-Q2M

Census (Wife) 1935 St. Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida, United States 847 Highland  
Event Note

1935 Florida Census. Series S5, Roll 223, Page 12, Line 46. Precinct 3 of Pinellas County, St Petersburg
At 847 Highland
Thomas F. Billups, 55, BP: PA, tenant, chef, college education
Sarah M. Billups, 55, PA, cook, grammar school education
Virginia R. Billups, 18, PA, daughter, student, high school education

 

Census (Wife) 1940 St. Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida, United States 818 15 Ave South 5a
Event Note

United States Census, 1940,Florida, Pinellas, Election Precinct 27, Saint Petersburg
owns the house at 818 15 Ave South. no indication of who provided the information. All lived in the same place (St Petersburg) in 1935.

Billups, Thomas F, head, 60, 8 years of school, born in PA, worked 75 hours last week as a manager ["own" is crossed out], the business is unreadable. worked 39 weeks last year for $487
Billups, Sarah M, wife, 60, 8 years of school, born in PA
Billups, Virginia R, daughter, 23, 4 yrs of high school, born in PA, worked 52 hours last week as a clerk in a retail ice cream store. worked 49 weeks last year for $313.

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-27763-13058-46?cc=2000219

 

Census (Wife) 1945 St. Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida, United States 818 15th Ave South  
Event Note

1945 Florida Census. Series S1371, Roll 343, Page 1, Line 28. of Pinellas County.
At 818 15th Ave South
Thomas F. Billups, 65, PA, retired, grade school education
Sarah Billups, 65, PA, housewife, grade school education
[no Virginia]

Residence (Mother) from 1946 to 1949 St. Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida, United States   4b
Death December 1965 St. Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida, United States   6
Event Note

Florida Death Index
Name: Sara Markley Billups
Gender: Female
Race: White
Death Date: Dec 1965
Death Place: Pinellas, Florida, United States

Burial 1965 Royal Palm South Cemetery, St. Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida, United States Burial of Sarah Kulp 7

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Henry F. Kulp
Mother Sarah
         Sarah Markley Kulp about 1879 December 1965

Families

Family of Thomas Franklin Billups and Sarah Markley Kulp

Married Husband Thomas Franklin Billups ( b. September 9, 1879 d. July 18, 1945 )
   
Event Date Place Description Sources
Marriage about 1910     8
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Virginia Ruth BillupsOctober 28, 1916December 12, 2001

Source References

  1. 1880 United States Census Perkiomen, Montgomery, Pennsylvania Series T9, Roll 1158, Page 399Ctranscribed at: www.familysearch.org with likely parents, and 1910 Montgomery County, 6th Ward of Norristown Boro Series T624 Roll 1379 Page 169. Enum Dist 120, sheet 19B, line 68. HeritageQuestOnline.com. (employee at State Hospital for Criminally Insane)
  2. 1910 United States Federal Census
      • Page: Norristown Ward 6, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, ED 120, sheet 4B
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MG6D-SSV : accessed 10 June 2019), Thomas F Billups, Norristown Ward 6, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 120, sheet 4B, family , NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1379; FHL microfilm 1,375,392.

  3. National Archives and Records Administration: 1930 United States Census
      • Page: Series T625, Roll 1606, Page 8B, Enumeration District 155.
      • Page: Thomas Billups, Saint Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida, ED 52-3, sheet 15A
  4. City Directories
      • Page: St Petersburg Fl, 1920 to 1935
      • Page: St Petersburg, Florida, 1945-49
  5. 1940 United States Census
      • Page: St Petersburg FL, Precinct 27
  6. Florida Death Record Index
  7. See note at death date.
  8. 1930 Census information says he and his wife both were 31 when married. 1930 Federal Census, Florida, Pinellas Co., St Petersburg. ED 52-3, Sheet 15A, line 7ff. Dwelling 400, family 413