Lilla Belle Phelps

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• Reference Number: 783

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• Birth: Between Mar and Apr 1870, Genesee, Michigan, USA
• Name: Reuben A Phelps
• Reference Number: 4988
• Residence: 1870, Davison, Genesee, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1880, Burton, Genesee, Michigan, USA

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Appears on 1880 cenus in household of Jerome Phelps. Listed as son. I believe this should be nephew. His marriage record lists Leander and Kate as parents. Also 1870 census list middle initial of 'A'. I also believe that is an error.

Reuben married Birdella Salina Ebright on 15 Mar 1896 in Ithaca, Gratiot, Michigan, USA. Birdella was born in 1879. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 2119

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• Reference Number: 5936
• Residence: 1850, Fort Ann, Washington, New York, USA
• Residence: 1880, Maple Grove, Saginaw, Michigan, USA

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Leander Phelps marriage info has him marring Catharine H. Coffin in Tuscola County with Wm. Irish and Helen M. Nettleton as witnesses. The Justice of the Peace is G. Nettleton. This recorded on April 1, 1864.

Leander married Catharine H Coffin on 11 Feb 1864 in Fairgrove, Tuscola, Michigan, USA. Catharine was born in 1842 in Ohio, USA; died before 1880. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 2773

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• Reference Number: 6159
• Residence: 1 Jun 1840, Fort Ann, Washington, New York, USA
• Residence: 1850, Fort Ann, Washington, New York, USA
• Possessions: 15 Dec 1856, Davison, Genesee, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1860, Davison, Genesee, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1870, Davison, Genesee, Michigan, USA
• Will: 29 Mar 1879, Burton, Genesee, Michigan, USA

Notes:

Transcript of Reuben G Phelps death certicate in Genesee County does not show parents name or address. Cause of death: congestion of the brain and spine.

He is a listed as an an heir on probate paperwork of Norman Phelps, Jr of Warren County, New York.

1880 census death schedule shows died in July of prev year and had lived in county for 26 years. which would indicate moved to Genesee County in 1853. (Adaline born in New York in 1853, Alice born in Genesee in 1855.) Land patent was in 1856.

http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch/Results.asp?QryId=46370.41 land patent

Nine of his ten listed children signed on his will. The exception being Lavona, who had died earlier.

Reuben married Mary Crossett. Mary (daughter of John Crossett, Jr) was born between 1813 and 1819 in New York, USA; died on 31 Jan 1904 in Burton, Genesee, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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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