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Death of Judge Phelps.
Truman Phelps, the subject of this brief sketch, was born August 7, 1806, near Uniontown, Mississippi. At the age of six years he moved with his parents to Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, where he grew to manhood. His rare intellect won him distinction at an early age, and for a number of years he represented his parish in the Louisiana legislature. In January, 1852, he moved to Texas, settling near Green Lake. He soon after moved to Goliad, but at that time the country was infested with lawless persons against whom a man of Mr. Phelps' character would be continually at war, and his residence there was brief. In 1857 he settled on his farm near the San Antonio river, 20 miles south of Victoria, at which place he lived and raised a family of several children. In 1881, having previously lost his wife he moved with his daughter, Mrs. R.S. Carothers, to McMullen county. Mr. R.S. Carothers having purchased the Jackson hotel in this city, moved his family here accompanied by Mr. Phelps, a few months ago. It was here, at the ripe old age of 86, he peacefully and quietly passed over the dark river into the joys of a life where sorrows and tears and parting are not. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Christian church, having joined the latter some four years ago.
(This biographical sketch is included because the son-in-law, R.S. Carothers, was a former resident of Refugio County.) |
