Hi Regina, This is a good example of why to share records! I typed into your original email what I had in my notes. Thanks again for your previous help. Merry Christmas and let me know if you need more. Sincerely, Paul Beauregard www.westol.com/~beaurega/paul.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- At 08:32 AM 12/22/98 -0500, Steve Roper wrote: >Hi all. >Are there any descendants of Josiah Phelps and Mary Birdwell McCormack >online? >I am a desc of Mary by her first marriage to John McCormack SR and am >interested in developing the Phelps children's families. > >Josiah Phelps (c1785-c1848) married #1 Mary (Patsy) Patience Foster, dau of George and Elizabeth (Hamlen) Foster July 20, 1809. I know they had a >bunch of children, but I seem to have lost the list of them. Kids: Presley Ward Phelps m Martha BENSON Obedience m Jacob NAVE William F. m Martha F. STUART Martha D. m Robert J. COBB Matilda m Ben OSBORN Elizabeth A. m possibly Jehu NAVE??? Allen H. William H. m ? Alexander M. 1. Mary E. 2. Desdamonia NAVE George Foster Phelps m Martha M. BRIDGEFORTH Eleanor m Jacob Baum Gardner MORELL probably Baumgardner was surname--PAB Fredonia m Samuel H. MORELL > >Josiah maried #2 Mary, widow of John McCormack, nee Birdwell, on 30 Apr >1832. >They had 5 children: > >1. Xantippe, born c 1833...Giles Co ref's say she married "Doc Wright" >but I believe she is interred in Bee Spring Cemetery as a Loyd?? Does >anyone have cemetery recs to help me comfirm this> I have about 1/2 of >htem but not the pages listing Xantippe. > >2. Julia A. born 28 Dec 1834 died Sept 1859 married Alex Loyd, interred >in Bee Spring Cemetery > >3. Thomas Hart Benton born 9 Sept 1837 died in Jones Co TX 17 May 1926, >married #1 Samantha Loyd on Nov 17, 1859 by L. D. Harwell. Samantha born NOV 6, 1839, died Feb 11, 1872, intered Bee Spring Cemetery. RED hair. Confederate pension TX recorded and refused. 2. Sarah E. Lettrel 28 Sept 187 don't know what this means--PAB My wife's line: Thomas Hart Benton PHELPS -Thomas Jefferson Phelps m Rosa Gunter Ellis Co TX --Ben Phelps m Alice Golden Taylor Youngstown, OH, lived Akron, OHIO > >4. Napoleon Bonaparte born 26 Dec 1839 died 12 Aug 1862, it is unclear >if he died single or not...early Giles Co ref's say he married a >McCormack > >5. Parthenia A b 29 Oct 1841 died Dec 1865...supposed to also be >interred at Bee Spring...married William ColemanHuff 6. Elizabeth A. Phelps, never married Paul Beauregard, reply > >Regina Roper