Phelps, Simon

PHELPS, SANPHERE, DILSAVER, PIERCE, CRONE, NAGLE

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 11/27/2012 at 09:09:56

Phelps, Simon - Section 9, P. O. Deep River. Was born in Clark county, Ohio, on the 22d of November, 1816. He attended school but little when a boy, and then under decided disadvantages, to inferior teachers who received but eight dollars per month and taught in a house the window lights of which were made of greased paper. In 1842 he emigrated to Stephenson county, Illinois, and was followed by his father's family the next year, where they all lived until the death of the venerable parents, who died - the father in his ninety-second year, and the month on the twenty-eighth of January, 1875. On the fifteenth of January, 1877, Simon emigrated to Iowa, landing in Dresden amid blinding snow and storm on the nineteenth of same month, his sons Thomas and Horace having preceded him four years. Mr. Phelps was married November 5, 1837, to Miss Harriet Sanphere, of Union county, Ohio, who was born in Miami county, Ohio on June 8, 1818. They have been blessed with nine children: Mary E. (born July 29, 1838; died November 17, 1840), Ira M. (born December 12, 1839; married Elizabeth J. Phelps, January 24, 1867), Thomas J. (born April 25, 1841; married Lucy A. Dilsaver, of Winnebago county, Illinois, January 22, 1864), Charlotte P. (born February 4, 1843; married to James M. Pierce of Stephenson county, Illinois, February 22, 1863), Cyrus G. (born April 25, 1845; died November 2, 1851), Horace (born April 18, 1847; married Miss Venah Crone, of Poweshiek county, Iowa, March 18, 1877), Hannah (born February 21, 1849; died September 6, 1854), Prudence L. (born March 17, 1851; married to Edward Nagle of Stephenson County, Illinois) and Simon M. (born October 21, 1854; died March 8, 1862). Mr. Phelps has held the positions of township trustee and school director. He owns a good farm of 175 acres, and has a beautifully situated residence. Himself and wife are consistent members of the "Church of God", or Second Adventists.

"The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa"
Published by Des Moines, Union Historical Co.,
Birdsdall, Williams & Co. 1880