My cousin and I are stuck at our ancestor, Ezekiel Phelps, born in Rutherford Co. Tn in 1801. We have a hunch that Ezekiel's father was a Thomas.. I have copied a section of a recent email from my cousin Dawn-Marie jaramillo Phelps:

...Here is some information that I have on the 1830 census for Adair Co., MO. They are listed in this order, which means they lived next to each other. Several years ago I went to the Archives down here. I was told that when they used to take the census, the census-taker would walk from farm to farm and list them in the order that they lived. If Thomas is Ezekiel's brother, note the ages, and he is a junior, that means their father was a Thomas Phelps. While Ezekiel was born in TN and Thomas Jr was born in KY doesn't mean they cant be brothers, since the Phelps' are known to move around and the two states are next to each other. Have you come up with a Thomas Phelps as a possibility to being Ezekiel's father?



The men and Jane are all around the same age... 20-29 age category.

SHELBY STICE MARRIED JANE BETTY PHELPS B.1807 KY. MARRIED ON 10-31-1827 IN RALLS CO., MO

EZEKIEL PHELPS B.1801 TN MARRIED MALINDA STICE B.11-13-1812 KY. MARRIED ON 7-12-1827 IN RALLS CO., MO

THOMAS PHELPS JR. B.1801-1810 (20-29 yrs old.) NEWLY-WED IN THE 1830 CENSUS. WIFE ONLY 15-19 YRS OLD IN CENSUS, NO CHILDREN YET.

Also, please note that I have a DNA test in progress with The Phelps DNA project administered by Doug Phelps. More participants would mean more closure in the gaps..

Thomas H Phelps