Mary Crossett

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• Reference Number: 5832
• Residence: 1880, Burton, Genesee, Michigan, USA
• Census: 1900, Burton, Genesee, Michigan, USA

Notes:

2/1/1904 Flint Daily News-Flint, Michigan

(HEADLINE:) She lived alone near her son. When found her body was found lying on the bed with the clothing burned off.

Mrs. Mary Phelps met with a terrible death last evening, shortly before 6 o'clock, being burned to death at her home on the farm of her son, Jerome, on Atherton Street in Burton.
Mrs. Phelps lived alone in a little house about 4 rods east of the residence of the son named, and (her) grandson Arthur, living several rods east of her. Last evening, between 5 and 6 o'clock her son went to the house where his mother lived to fix the fire and found her seated before the stove. He did what was necessary to the stove and cautioned the old lady, who was about eighty-six, not to meddle with the fire. Shortly before 6 o’clock Arthur left his house to go to the barn to harness a horse to take two ladies who were visiting him to the electric railway station at Morrish’s crossing, and while passing the house smelled smoke. He groped his way to the chair in which his grandmother usually sat, and finding her not there ran to the bed, on which he found her lying. He was unable to carry her out and called for his father. Together they carried the bed out of the house and found Mrs. Phelps was dead. Her clothing had been burned off her body and the bed clothing had been burned. It is supposed that her clothing caught fire and she rushed to the bed and threw herself upon it in the hope that the fire would be extinguished by so doing, or that a spark set fire to her dress and she went to bed, and while lying down the spark burst into a blaze and she was burned to death. The two young ladies who were visiting the younger Phelps passed the house a few minutes before Arthur did and smelled nothing.
Mrs. Phelps was born in New York and came to Davison with her husband, R.G. Phelps about 50 years ago. They lived in Davison for about twenty years and then moved to Burton where Mr. Phelps died about twenty-five years ago. She is survived by six children. They are Jerome, of Burton; Leander, of Saginaw; Eugene, who lives in California; Mrs. Delos Cole, of St. Johns; Mrs. Adaline Thompson, who lives near Millington, and Alice of Gratiot county.
Dr. Charles was notified and went to Burton last night, but did not deem an inquest necessary.
The funeral will be held on Wednesday at 10 a.m. from the home of her son, Jerome. Interment will be made in the Kitchen cemetery in Davison.

(death certificate lists cause of death-smothered by smoke) (death certificate list John Crosette as her father, mother unknown). Deed in Fort Ann, Washington County, New York 7/12/1849, Reuben G. Phelps and his wife Mary purchased land in Fort Ann from John Crosett and his wife Lucy. Deed Liber book 21. page 178.


Buried:
Kitchen Cemetery, Davison, Genesee, Michigan, USA

Family/Spouse: Reuben Gibson Phelps. Reuben (son of Norman Phelps, Jr and Hannah Chase) was born between 1814 and 1815 in New York, USA; died on 15 Jul 1879 in Burton, Genesee, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Henrietta Phelps was born on 28 Jan 1835 in Fort Ann, Washington, New York, USA; died on 5 Oct 1887 in Tuscola, Michigan, USA; was buried after 5 Oct 1887 in Fairgrove, Tuscola, Michigan, USA.
2. Delia Phelps was born in 1838; died on 2 Apr 1913 in St Johns, Clinton, Michigan, USA.
3. Leander Phelps was born on 10 Dec 1841 in New York, USA; died on 13 Feb 1909 in Chesaning, Saginaw, Michigan, USA.
4. Eugene Phelps was born in 1843 in Washington, New York, USA; died after 1920.
5. Jerome Phelps was born on 14 Sep 1845 in New York, USA; died on 24 Apr 1913.
6. Sandra Luceba Phelps was born on 13 Nov 1847; died on 12 Apr 1900 in St Johns, Clinton, Michigan, USA.
7. Freeland Phelps was born on 16 Nov 1849 in Fort Edward, Washington, New York, USA; died on 12 Jan 1884.
8. Adeline Phelps was born in 1853 in New York, USA; died on 22 Sep 1914 in Genesee, Michigan, USA.
9. Alice Phelps was born in 1855 in Michigan, USA.
10. Lavona Phelps was born on 29 Jul 1856 in Michigan, USA; died on 13 Feb 1864 in Michigan, USA; was buried after 13 Feb 1864 in Davison, Genesee, Michigan, USA.

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• Reference Number: 5776
• Residence: 1820, Fort Ann, Washington, New York, USA

Notes:

Deed in Fort Ann, Washington County, New York, 7/12/1849. Reuben G. Phelps and his wife Mary purchased land in Fort Ann from John Crosett and his wife Lucy. Deed Liber book 21. page 178.

on 1820 census john is bet 26 & 45; dob would be 1775 to 1794 living with him is 1 male bet 10 & 16, 2 females less than 10 and 1 female bet w6 & 45. Farmers.

on 1840 census john is bet 50 & 60; dob would be 1780-1790. living with him is 1 male 15-20, 1 female 15-20 and 1 female 50-60. Farmers.

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• Reference Number: 2059

Notes:

educated guessing on details-not proven a connection

guesstimate based on john Jr and sr both being in Fort Ann on the 1820 census. Sr age is over 45 per census, which would be dob before 1775.