John Phelps

John Phelps parents were Joseph and Phebe Ann Place Phelps. The family was in New England long before the Revolutionary War days. In 1843, Phebe's parents, her sister Mary, herself and her youngest brother, Alma, joined The Mormon Church. This family was probably converted by missionaries who had been sent out from Nauvoo to preach the gospel. In the year 1849, the Phelps family was in Winter Quarters, Nebraska. (Now Florence, Nebraska). Gigantic preparations were being made for a large migration to the mountains in the west. In the spring of 1850 the Phelps family and Phebe and Joseph joined Captain David Evens' Company at Winter Quarters and started for Utah. This took three months to reach the Salt Lake Valley. They arrived Sept. 15, 1850. This entire company went to Ogden, as they were asked to do. The Phelps and Stonebraker's settled near where the Ogden depot now stands. They ran an immigrant supply station while there.

Phebe Phelps Stonebraker Pioneer of 1850 Submited by Terry Morby http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ut/county/weber/biography/stonebraker.htm

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John Phelps
BIRTH
5 Sep 1800
Canada
DEATH
1 Apr 1883 (aged 82)
Kanab, Kane County, Utah, USA
BURIAL
Kanab City Cemetery
Kanab, Kane County, Utah, USA
PLOT
65-4-1
MEMORIAL ID
13261389 · View Source
MEMORIAL
PHOTOS 1
FLOWERS 3
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Deseret News, 4-18-1883, Page 9

THE KANAB POISONING.

THE INDIAN "WHITE EYE" SAID TO BE THE MURDERER.

Brother John Rider, of Kanab, sends us the following about the poisoning case at that place, of which we made mention a few days ago.

"By request I forward you the coroner's verdict and obituary of deceased. Since the inquest was over, one of indians has confessed that indian "White Eye" placed the strychnine in Brother John Phelp's flour, and was held to appear before the Grand Jury at Beaver, at an examination before Justice Broadbent.

Territory of Utah, Kanab Precinct, Kane County.}

An inquisition holden in Kanab, at the residence of T.G. Smith, on the 2d day of April, A.D. 1883, before Nephi Johnson, Esq., Justice of the Peace for the Johnson Precinct, in the county aforesaid, on the body of John Phelps there lying dead, by the jurors whose names are hereby subscribed.

The said jurors upon their oaths do say that the deceased came to his death from the effects of strychnine, feloniously placed in his food by persons unknown, but supposed to be two indians who entered into his house in a secluded part of the canon in which his home was. No evidence of the fact, however, could be proved.

In testimony whereof the said jurors have hereunto set their hands the day and year aforesaid.

John Rider, B.T. Baird, Taylor Crosby, Jurors.
[Attest] Nephi Johnson, Justice of the Peace.

John Phelps, son of Joseph and Phoebe Place Phelps, was born Sept. 5th, 1800 in Canada, and moved from there to Cincinnati; Joined the Church in the early days; was well aquainted with the Prophet Joseph; came to Utah with the first company of Saints, and went back to assist in the hand-cart company; was called to "Dixie" to raise cotton, and about three years ago moved to Kanab.
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Family Members
Spouse

Mary Shaw Leachman Phelps
1798–1873

Children

Kaziah Phelps Bamford
1820–1899

Marbra Margaret Phelps Fulton, Robbins, Copeland
1822–1896

Daniel M Phelps
1824–1905

Sarah Phelps Thrush
1827–1916

Mary Ann Phelps Allen
1831–1912

Phoebe Phelps Stonebraker
1833–1918

Hester Ann Phelps Peatross
1838–1913

Alma S Phelps
1843–1901