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WILLIAM J. PHELPS

DEATH OF WM. J. PHELPS

[Welland Telegraph, 17 January 1908]

Wm. J. Phelps, fifty years old, a healer of the First Church of Christ, Christian Scientists, died Tuesday afternoon at his home, No. 103 Anderson Place. His death was due to pneumonia and his illness was brought on by overwork in attending the sessions of the present grand jury and attending to his church duties after the jury adjourned each day. He was taken ill last Wednesday.

Mr. Phelps is survived by a wife and daughter. He lived in Buffalo a number of years and for the past eight years had been an active member of the congregation of the Church of Christ.

He was a son of the late Joseph Phelps of Marshville and lived in Marshville and Welland up to twenty years ago, when he moved to Buffalo. Besides his wife and daughter he leaves the following relatives: Ann and Margaret, sisters, Buffalo; Mrs. Geo. S_, Air Line, and Mrs. Wm. Ingram, Drumbo; half sisters _____ and Thomas Phelps of Marshville, half brothers.

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