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Rev. Enoch S Phelps

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The Rev. Enoch S Phelps was born in 1804 in Edgefield District, South Carolina. He died on 20 Sep 1869 in Newton County, Texas. He married Cornealour Jonson on 15 Jan 1824 in Dallas County, Alabama. The family lived in Dallas County, Alabama for about 7 years.

Enoch applied for a letter of dismission from the Bethel Baptist Church on 21 April 1834. Enoch and Cornelia were looking westward although they didn't leave until after their daughter, Caroline Cornelia Comfort Phelps was born 9 May 1836.

The Phelps family arrived in Newton County, Mississippi in 1837. Several of the Phelps brothers wanted to go West. Enoch Spruill Phelps joined the Texas Army in 1837. He was listed on the roster from 4 Feb to 5 Nov 1837 as a Private, Company H, 1st Regiment Infantry. He received 480 acres of bounty land on 8 Nov 1837 in Uvalde County so he traveled there with his brothers. Enoch found it hard to tolerate so he returned to Newton County.

Enoch and Cornelia started a homestead in Newton Co, MS in 1838. His father Enoch and his mother Mary both died in Newton Co, MS. After the 1840 census, Enoch and family moved to Sabine County, Texas. They then moved to Toro, Sabine Parish, LA. Enoch worked with the area churches on both sides of the Sabine River and farmed for a living. By 1851, he had joined the Bethlehem Baptist Assoc. and was a messenger to the assoc. He was appointed to the Union Baptist Church in Stringtown, Newton County, Texas. There he settled his family for the rest of his life. In 1853 he was employed as missionary to the assoc. He was ordained in 1853 as minister. On 23 Dec 1855, he constituted the Jasper City Baptist Church. In 1858 he was employed as missionary from July at a salary of $1.50 per day.

Enoch and Cornealour/Cornelia had the following children:
*Bethsaida Lorren Phelps; 1825 - 1901; married William Underwood and F. C. Wilmeth
*Phereby Ann Huldah Phelps; 1826 - 1895; married William M. Hicks and Axom O'Neal
*Enoch Joseph Downing Phelps; 1828 - 1963; married Rachel Fowler and Bedy Collins. *Harriet Ann Minerva Phelps; 1831 - 1842
*Jeremiah John Stewart Phelps; 1834 - 1899; married Margaret Weeks
*Caroline Cornelia Comfort Phelps; 1836 - 1860; married Edward Smith
*Levi Spruill Price Phelps; 1839 - 1869
*Lorenzo James Austin Phelps; 1842 - 1932; married Mary E. Cousins
*Mary Elizabeth Betty Phelps; 1846 - 1933; married Benjamin A. Willis
*Martha Ann Sarah Phelps; 1847 - 1930; married James F. Jordan
*Elza Vinan Marcus Phelps; 1850 - 1937; married Mary Nancy Simmons
*Frances Emily Phelps; 1854 - 1934; married James M. Marshall

Enoch and Cornelia are buried at the Old Union Baptist Church Cemetery.

1830 Lowndes County, Alabama.

27 Feb 1841 225.58 acres, Newton County, MS E1/2NW sec 24 twn 8-N range 10-E. He signed same day as his brother Isaiah M. Phelps.

1840 Newton County, Mississippi

1850 Sabine Parish, LA

SOURCES:
*"Alabama Marriages, 1816-1957", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQVF-BYF : 13 February 2020), Enoch S. Philps, 1824.
*"United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://beta.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHP9-GXV : accessed 24 November 2015), E S Phelps, Lowndes, Alabama, United States; citing 273, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 3; FHL microfilm 2,330.
*"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://beta.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCJD-R5J : accessed 24 November 2015), Enoch S Phelps, Sabine parish, Sabine, Louisiana, United States; citing family 489, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
*"United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXFT-ZBR : 18 February 2021), E S Phelps, 1860.
*"Texas, Voter Records, 1867-1918", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:W18H-PR3Z : 15 December 2020), E S Phelps, 1869.
*Ancestry.com. U.S., Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index, 1850-1880 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. - 1870

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