This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JW.2ADE/7917 Message Board Post: Deer Hunter Found Dead In Mountains Earl Cochran Phelps, 48, of Tehachapi, was found dead by an 8 man search party at 11 a.m. Tuesday, October 19. His body was found one mile southeast of the Cummings ranch home in Miller Canyon with a forked horn deer strapped to his back. He and his hunting partner, Bob Freeman; Jr. of 414 So. Green St., Tehachapi, were hunting on the Cummings ranch nine miles southwest of Tehachapi on Monday, October 8, and when Phelps failed to return, Bob started the search for him. An autopsy revealed the fact that Phelps died of a heart attack and the body was brought to the O'Donnell Funeral Home in Mojave. Survivors include his wife, Gertrude, and a daughter, Winota, 16, of 316 Mojave St., Tehachapi; his father, Ernest C. Phelps of Shasta County and a brother, Jean, in the U. S. Navy. Funeral services will be held Thursday (today) in the First Baptist Church in Tehachapi with Mr. R. M. Blackwood officiating. Interment will be in the Tehachapi cemetery. Posted by East Kern Genealogical Society Courtesy of Mojave Desert News California City, Kern, CA Published: 21 Oct 1954