Joseph Downing Phelps (1814 - 1889)

Born 1 Jan 1814 in Edgefield County, South Carolina, United States of America

Ancestors

Son of Enoch Phelps and Mary (Unknown) Phelps

Husband of Elizabeth (Williams) Phelps — married 5 Jul 1832 in Wilcox, Alabama, United States

Husband of Belitha Mayona (Caraway) Phelps — married 10 Mar 1867 in Hardin, Texas, United States

Descendants

Died 10 Dec 1889 at age 75 in Tyler County, Texas, United States of America

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Biography

• Y-Chromosome DNA Confirmed: Phelps-2373's direct paternal relationship to Phelps-4110 is confirmed because: This yDNA test of Phelps-4021 and this yDNA test of Spina-34 are a close match. Y DNA exact match at 37 markers, genetic distance of 0 . The most recent common ancestor in the yDNA line of Phelps-4021 and the yDNA line of Spina-34 is Phelps-4110.

Joseph purchased land in Lowndes County, AL in 1837, but must have moved that same year to MS as he is paying taxes in Newton County, MS from 1838-1842. By 1850 he has moved to Louisiana.

He served in the Mexican War in Texas.^[1][2]

He married his first wife Elizabeth Williams who died sometime before 1867 in TX and they had the following known children:

1. John Rufus Phelps (died in Civil War)
2. Sarah Phelps married Levi McDaniel
3. Mary A. P. Phelps married Willy Cunningham 28 Nov 1862 in Navaro Co., TX
4. James R. Phelps married 06 Aug 1863 Navarro Co., TX to Susan A. Jones
5. Densen J. Phelps married Sarah Hare
6. Amanda Elizabeth Phelps married 07 Oct 1866 Tyler Co., TX to Andrew Patrick
7. Enoch Frederick Phelps married 05 Aug 1875 Tyler Co to Mary A. Harvill

He married second wife Belitha Hair on 10 Mar 1867 in Hardin County, Texas.^[3]

Joseph is buried in Beech Creek Cemetery in Spurger, Tyler County, TX. ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Mexican War Pension Index, 1887-1926," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8HW-RYX : accessed 9 June 2016), Joseph D Phelps, 1887; citing Pension, Texas, NARA microfilm publication T317 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 537,009.
2. ↑ "United States Mexican War Pension Index, 1887-1926," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8HW-RYF : accessed 9 June 2016), Joseph D Phelps, 1890; citing Pension, Texas, NARA microfilm publication T317 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 537,009.
3. ↑ "Texas Marriages, 1837-1973," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FXQS-2QZ : accessed 9 June 2016), Joseph D. Phelps and Beleth Hair, 10 Mar 1867; citing , Hardin, Texas, , reference 2:RR1BRS; FHL microfilm 1,005,604.
4. ↑ Tombstone.

• Lowndes Co., AL Land Record
• Newton Co., MS Tax Records

1838-1 poll, no slaves, .37 1/2

1839-1 poll, .37 1/2

1840-1 poll, .37 1/2

1841-40 acres valued at $300, 1 poll, $1.25

1842-1 poll, .50

• US Federal Census - 1840 Newton Co., MS
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCJQ-6CK : accessed 9 June 2016), Joseph D Phelps, Caldwell parish, Caldwell, Louisiana, United States; citing family 86, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXGD-G25 : accessed 9 June 2016), Downing Philps in household of Jo D Philps, Texas, United States; citing p. 90, family 604, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 553,105.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFJF-VZM : accessed 9 June 2016), Downing S Phileps in household of Joseph D Phileps, Precinct 5, Tyler, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district ED 103, sheet 351A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1329; FHL microfilm 1,255,329.