Isabella Phelps (abt. 1798 - 1878)

Born about 1798 in United States

Descendants

Died 18 Dec 1878 at about age 80 in Gainsborough, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

She is my 3rd ggrandmother.

Sources

• Death Certificate, Newspapers: she is applying for assistance as to a disabled child, Hannah, St. John's store Journal notes that Isabella owes money for meds received due to her sick husband Robert, 1843. Census, 1828 with Robert and others with and without children etc She was so poor, most of the children were staying elsewhere. In the 1840s isabella was staying with the Moores, in Wainfleet Twp, next door to Mariah and Peter Hendershott, Her daughter and her daughter's husband.

Later, she was living with Samuel Green Wiggins, his wife and family. She was probably keeping house for them. Later she married David Smith in Gainsborough until he died and left her a widow. As a widow, she purchased part of lot the North 1/2 of the North 1/2 of lot 5 Con 2 Gainsborough Township, Lincoln County, Ontario. Years later she sold the property to her son Ephram.