Benjamin Axum Phelps

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name: Benjamin Axum Phelps
death date: 26 Jan 1972
death place: Jasper, Texas, United States
gender: Male
race: White
death age: 87 years
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birth date: 24 Sep 1884
birthplace: Texas
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father's name: Jim Austin Phelps
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mother's name: Elizabeth Cousins
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film number: 2223719
digital film number: 4005473
image number: 03030
reference number: 21133
Collection: Benjamin Axum Phelps, "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976"

His FindAGrave memorial page, created by East Texan, as the following obituary posted:

Funeral services for Benjamin Axur Phelps, 87, of Kirbvyille, will be held at 10:00 AM Saturday in the Chapel of Causey's W E Stringer Funeral Home. The Rev Jack Lee, Missionary Baptist Minister of Jasper, will officiate. Burial will be in the Redland Cemetery between Bronson and San Augustine. Nephews will serve as Pallbearers.

He died about 11:00 PM Wednesday, January 26, 1972 in Buna Medical Center after a long illness. A native of Newton County, he lived in San Augustine a number of years and lived in Kirbyville for the past 30 years. He was a member of Beulah Springs Missionary Baptist Church and a retired farmer.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs Ethel Forse Phelps; two sons, Arnold Phelps of Kirbyville and Wayman Phelps of Albuquerque, New Mexico; two daughters; Mrs Elora Burgay of Kirbyville and Mrs Dera Burns of Albuquerque, New Mexico; 6 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.

Family/Spouse: Laura Ethel Forse. Laura (daughter of Charles Abraham Forse and Susan Loggins) was born on 20 Jan 1892 in San Augustine County, Texas; died on 30 Sep 1973 in Buna, Jasper County, Texas; was buried in Chinquapin Cemetery (Loggins Family Burial Ground), Macune, San Augustine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]