This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Phelps Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4NB.2ACI/92.1 Message Board Post: A shot in the dark....Do you think Osa would ever be called Ollie (possibly the enumerator heard Osee as Ollie). Some coincidences of birth & birthplace on the following: 1900 Federal Census, Bremer, Meagher County, Montana James B. Phelps, Head, DOB: Oct 1856, Age 43, Married 8 years, POB: IA; Father's POB: WI; Mother's POB: Ireland, Occupation: Saloon keeper Ollie, Wife, DOB: Dec 1863, Age 36, Married 8 years, no children, POB: IL, Parents' POB: IL Note: In 1910 this James B. Phelps is living with his sister and two young neices in White Sulfer Springs, Meagher County, Montana Montana Death Index: I believe this James B. Phelps died at age 54, 10 Nov 1910, Index # 41-0242, Montana Office of Vital Statistics