Daily Iowegian - 24 May 1956
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MYSTIC -- Lee Phelps, 80, resident of Mystic for many years, died at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 23, [1956], at the St. Joseph Hospital. He was a retired miner.
Surviving are his widow, one son, Elmer Phelps of Mystic, four daughters, Mrs. Eddie Stout, Des Moines; Nelle Salisbury, Mystic; Ruth King, Corydon; and Gertrude Atwell, Plano; and several children and grandchildren.
Short funeral services will be held at the Swanson Funeral Home here Saturday at 1:30 p.m. The body will then be taken to the Jerome Methodist Church, where services will be conducted by Rev. Sylvan Turner. Burial will be at Jerome.
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Editor's Note
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Jesse Lee Phelps was born 11 March 1876 in Decatur, Iowa, son of Horace Sumner Phelps and Lydia C. Huffman, and died 23 May 1956 at St. Joseph Hospital, Centerville, Iowa. He married 1 September 1897 in Lineville, Iowa, Eliza Meda Dooley who was born 22 April 1880 in Lancaster, Schuyler County, Missouri, daughter of Jonathan Charles Dooley [1835-1906] and Samantha Walker [1843-1914], died 6 May 1975 in Centerville, Appanoose County, Iowa, and was buried in the Jerome Cemetery. Seven children were born to this union: Ruth Phelps, Elmer Lafayette Phelps [1899-1978], Albert Oral Phelps [1901-1906], Mary Iona Phelps [1905-1979], Nellie Elma Phelps [1908-2001], Gertie Coy Phelps [1913-2002], and Robert Erwin Phelps [1916-1917].
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1953 Picture of Jesse Lee Phelps & Eliza Meda Dooley
Posted by Shirley Livingston
on Ancestry.com Family Trees
on Ancestry.com Family Trees
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Jesse Lee Phelps' World War I Draft Registration Card
From Ancestry.com. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line], Provo, UT, USA.
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Hi I am Eliza gg niece..from Belva Grace Dooley n Kelly lines etc...u can find me on Facebook..April Suggs...nice job.
ReplyDeleteLee was my great grandfather, whom I never knew. But I did know my great grandmother Eliza who lived to be 95 and passed away when I was a child. I remember visiting her in Centerville.
ReplyDeleteG. Stout
Mary Iona Phelps (Stout) was my grandmother.
ReplyDeleteG. Stout
Jessie Lee Phelps is my 4th great uncle because his sister Stella May Phelps is my great great grandma mother to my great grandpa Ace Kenneth Dooley
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