NOTE: This Samuel PHELPS and his wife Dorcas CAMPBELL are not to be confused with Samuel Truesdell PHELPS 43770119 and Dorcas FRISBEE 43770191.

NOTE: These two are the ONLY Phelpses buried at this cemetery.
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Samuel's parents are still being determined - will update when we verify the info first. His parents were both born in Connecticut.

Samuel PHELPS married Dorcas CAMPBELL in Feb 1839 in Delaware Co., NY. They had 11 children in all. Two died in 1848 in Chenango Co., NY. The family moved to De Kalb Co. IL sometime in 1850s. Nine are currently known:

1. Sarah Ann PHELPS Black 1839–1921, m. Corp. Nirum BLACK.
2. James A PHELPS 1841–1922, m. Sarah Evaline WILTSE.
3. Mary A PHELPS 1844-1848, died 4 yrs.
4. Cynthia L PHELPS 1847–1848, died young.
5. Mary Lavina PHELPS Ewing 1849–1934, m. Hyrum Smith EWING.
6. Phebe A PHELPS Westlake 1851–1910, m. John Orville WESTLAKE.
7. Caroline Augusta PHELPS Foster 1852–1945, married 3x:
.....1) Colonel E FOSTER,
.....2) Myron Merrill CORSER,
.....3) Lyman Otis EWING (sister Emma's husband).
8. Emma Louise PHELPS Ewing 1857–1915, m. Lyman Otis EWING (his 1st wife)
9. Clarinda "Clara" PHELPS Chatfield 1860–1918, m. John R CHATFIELD.
10. Adelphia Annelia "Della" PHELPS Gorton 1862–1938, Alonzo A GORTON.
11. Benjamin S (not W) PHELPS 1865–1919, m. Catherine HENNEGAN (she then remarried to Matthew KAISER).
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1850 US Federal Census, Greene, Chenango Co., NY:
Samuel PHELPS 32
Dorcas PHELPS 29
S A [Sarah Ann] PHELPS 11
J A [James A] PHELPS 8
C L [Cynthia L] PHELPS [I believe this is an ERROR- should have read M. L. [Mary Lavina]. There is just no way it can be Cynthia if she died in 1848! It would have to be Mary L. She lived past 1850.]

1855 NY State Census, Greene, Chenango Co., NY:
Samuel PHELPS 37 b. Greene Co.(NOT Greene, Chenango Co.)
Dorcas PHELPS 32 b. Delaware Co.
Sarah Ann PHELPS 15 b. Delaware Co.
James PHELPS 14 b. Delaware Co.
Mary L PHELPS 6 b. Chenango Co.
Phoebe D[A] PHELPS 4 b. Chenango Co.
Caroline PHELPS 0 b. Chenango Co.
Moses DAVIS 18

1860 US Census, Pampas, DeKalb, IL:
Samuel PHELPS 42, b. NY, farmer
Dorcas PHELPS 38, b. NY
Sarah A PHELPS 20 b. NY
James A PHELPS 18 b. NY
Mary PHELPS 11 b. NY
Phebe PHELPS 8 b. NY
Caroline PHELPS 5 b. NY
Emma L PHELPS 3 b. IL
Clarinda PHELPS 5/12 mos. b. IL

1870 US Census, Sycamore, DeKalb, IL:
Samuel PHELPS 55, b. NY, farmer
Dorcas PHELPS 48, b. NY
Caroline PHELPS 16, b. NY
Emma PHELPS 13, b. IL
Clarinda PHELPS 10, b. IL
Adelphia PHELPS 7, b. IL
Benjamin W PHELPS 4 b. IL
Thomas Mullen 19 b. NY
Mary L PHELPS 21 b. NY, school teacher

1880 US Census, Sycamore, DeKalb, IL:
Samuel Phelps 63, farmer, parents b. in Connecticut.
Dorcas Phelps 58, her parents b. in New York.
Della Phelps 17
Benjamin Phelps 14

Samuel PHELPS died on 25 Dec. 1880, well after the 1880 Census was taken on 21 Jun 1880.

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An excerpt from the publication "Past and Present of DeKalb County, Illinois, Volume 1" by Lewis M Gross, H. W. Fay, page 346:

In Sycamore was celebrated the marriage of John R. Chatfield and Miss Clarinda Phelps, who was born in De Kalb county, Illinois, in 1859, a daughter of Samuel Phelps, an early resident of the county, who remained here until his death, which occurred in 1882 when he was about sixty-eight years of age. He sailed for nine years on the Great Lakes, rising from cabin boy to first mate. His wife, who bore the maiden name Dorcas Campbell, survived him until 1894 and died at the age of seventy-two years. They came to the middle west from the vicinity of Syracuse, New York, and for some years after their arrival Mr. Phelps engaged in the cultivation of rented land but afterward bought a farm in Sycamore township and there made his home until he was called to his final rest. He took an active and helpful part in the early pioneer development of this portion of the state and was well known as a frontier settler. The Phelps family numbered eleven children. Those still living are: Mrs. Alonzo Gordon, of Kane county, Illinois; Mrs. Lyman Ewings, also of Kane county; James, a veteran of the One Hundred and Fifth Illinois Infantry and now a retired farmer living in Rockford, Illinois; Benjamin, who is shipping clerk in the People's Furniture Store at Omaha, Nebraska; Mrs. Hiram Ewings and Mrs. Myron Corser, who are residents of Cherryvale, Kansas; Mrs. Nyron Black , of Arkansas City, Kansas; and Mrs. J. O. Westlake, of Sycamore.