Charles Weller Phelps

Brief Life History of Charles Weller

When Charles Weller Phelps was born on 29 September 1851, in Kentucky, United States, his father, Bailous Phelps, was 49 and his mother, Mahana Buckner Jones, was 44. He married Frances Miriam Hopper on 28 October 1872, in Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Tennessee Magisterial District, Caldwell, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Eddyville, Lyon, Kentucky, United States in 1900. He died on 1 January 1922, in Madisonville, Hopkins, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Princeton, Caldwell, Kentucky, United States.

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Family Time Line

Charles Weller Phelps
1851–1922
Frances Miriam Hopper
1852–1910
Marriage: 28 October 1872
Sarah L Phelps
1874–
John Bayless Phelps
1875–1938
William Burnette Phelps
1878–
Effie Lee Phelps
1881–
Charles E Phelps
1884–1969
James Edward Phelps
1888–1966
Herman Alexander Phelps
1890–1956

Sources (19)

  • Charls Phelph, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Charles Weller Phelps - Government record: birth-name: Charles Weller Phelps
  • C W Phelps, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"

World Events (8)

1861

Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

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.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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