Samuel PHELPS & Rhoda COLLINS

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Samuel PHELPS
Rhoda COLLINS

Husband: Samuel PHELPS

Parents said to be, but are not:
Father: Benjamin PHELPS (1717- )
Mother: Ruth HORTON (1727- )
This is a New England couple, and their son, Samuel (1751-), married Clarissa SKINNER (1754-).

Marriage: 27 Mar 1795, Grayson Co., VA

Wife: Rhoda "Rhody" COLLINS — not "Rosie"
Birth: 1760-70, VA
Death apparently: 1860-70, Grayson Co., VA

Children:

. Rhoda H. PHELPS, b. 1799, NC
. John [W. or H.] PHELPS, b. 2 Feb 1802, NC
. Sarah PHELPS, b. 1806, Grayson Co., VA

Keywords for search engines: genealogy; USA, US, United States, Virginia

Sources (n.b., Grayson Co., VA, was just across the state line from Ashe Co., NC; Carroll Co. was formed in 1842 from Grayson and Patrick Cos.):

1a. Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940 (online at familysearch.org):

Samuel Phelps Rosey Collins 27 Mar 1795 Grayson County, Virginia Film #31758

Has the film been misread?

1b. Jordan R. Dodd, ed. 1993. Virginia Marriages: Early to 1850. Liahona Research, Orem, UT (Broderbund CD-229): not found, though there are some Grayson County marriages on the CD.

2a. LDS. Family Search: Internet Genealogy Service: IGI - International Genealogical Index (online at FamilySearch.org).

Rhoda H PHELPS
Birth: 1799, North Carolina
Father: Samuel PHELPS; Mother: Rosie COLLINS
Source: patron submission

2b. LDS. Family Search: Internet Genealogy Service: Pedigree Resource File (index to CDs, online at FamilySearch.org).

John H. PHELPS
Birth: 2 Feb 1802, North Carolina; Death: 13 Mar 1888, Laurel County, KY
Father: Samuel PHELPS; Mother: Rosie COLLINS
Source: patron submission

3. 1790/1800/1810 Censuses: the 1790 and 1800 Virginia censuses were destroyed, and the 1810 census of Grayson County was lost.

4. 1820/30 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com): not found, at least not as Rhoda PHELPS.

4b. 1840 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #103-104 of 110; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤

1840 VA Grayson Co. Roll 555 pp. 323B-324A Ln. 22 Rhody Phelps 110 - 221 001 000 100 no slaves 0100000

These data indicate:

No. & Sex Age Class Therefore Born Individuals Inferred

1 male 4 or under 1835-1840 = John Calvin (b. 1838)

1 male 5-9 1830-1835 = Grandson

2 females 4 or under 1835-1840 = Charlotte (b. 1836/7)
= Granddaughter

2 females 5-9 1830-1835 = Granddaughter
= Nancy (b. 1830/1)

1 female 10-14 1825-1830 = Rhoda Ann (b. 1827/8)

1 female 30-39 1800-1810 = Sarah (b. 1806)

1 female 70-79 1760-1770 = Rhoda

1 person employed in agriculture

Sarah PHELPS and her children fit perfectly in Rhoda's household.

5. 1850 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com): can't find Rhoda. Sarah has married Ahart FARMER and is living with him.

6. 1860 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #94 of 196): Independence P.O., Grayson Co., VA, Roll M653_1348, p. 94, PN 94, 720/675, enumerated 16 Aug 1860, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1860 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

Ahart Farmer 49 M Laboror 15 Va

Sarah " 52 F Va

Rosamond 8 F Va

Freeling Phelps 12 M Va

Rhoda " 105 F 25 Va

Rhoda's age appears inflated, here, because she's in her 70's in the 1840 census. If you bring her age back down into the lower 90s, then she's not too old to be Sarah's mother.

7. 1860 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com): Rhoda not found.

. Public Member Trees (online at Ancestry.com).

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