When Sarah Frances Phelps was born in 1856, in Warren, Kentucky, United States, her father, James Melvin Phelps, was 29 and her mother, Mary Ann Reeves, was 21. She married Aaron Davenport on 28 August 1873, in Warren, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Butler, Kentucky, United States in 1860 and Woodbury, Butler, Kentucky, United States in 1870.
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Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
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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