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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- 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"
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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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