Mary PHELPS was born in 1802, in Wood, Virginia, United States. She lived in Jackson, Virginia, United States in 1860 and Clay District, Wood, West Virginia, United States in 1870.
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Scottish and English (southwestern): variant of Phillips .
History: The brothers George and William Phelps emigrated from Gloucestershire, England, to Dorchester, MA, c. 1630. Five years later they moved to Windsor, CT. George's sixth-generation descendant, Anson Greene Phelps (1781–1853), rose from being a penniless orphan to the status of a major industrialist and a prominent CT philanthropist.
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