Descendants of Mary Alice Phelps

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Descendants of Mary Alice Phelps
Generation 1
1. MARY ALICE1 PHELPS was born on 08 Dec 1872 in Waynesburg, Lincoln, Kentucky, USA. She died
on 04 Jul 1939 in Picayune, Pearl River, Mississippi, USA. She married Andrew Layton Peters, son
of Henry Fowler Peters and Francis "Frankie" Jane Young on 24 Nov 1892 in Lincoln, Kentucky,
USA. He was born on 10 Jul 1864 in Morgan, Tennessee, USA (1900 census). He died on 31 Jan
1943.
Notes for Mary Alice Phelps:
"mom Alice" in her final years seperated from her husband and lived with Maxine Mae Peters
Amacker and later with Ova Olga Peters Tourne. She was living with Olga when she died in 1939.
I'm told that Mary Alice Amacker Peters wife of Orian Lester Peters found pictures of nude women
in his files and destroyed them..Andrew Layton Peters was a photographer and spent his final days
with his son Orice Lester Peters and his wife Mary Alice Amacker, .
Mary Alice Phelps married Andrew L Peters and Sarah Elizabeth Phelps married John Boyd
Peters, Sisters married brothers. Mom Alice is Buried in NEW PALESTINE CEMETERY, CITY
SECTION B Picayune, Pearl River County, Mississippi Sarah Elizabeth Phelps is buried in the
Mount Vernon Cemetery in Burrville, TN
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1880 United States Federal Census Name: Mary A. Phelps Home in 1880: Waynesburg,
Lincoln, Kentucky Age: 8 Estimated birth year: abt 1872 Birthplace: Kentucky Relation to
Head of Household: Daughter
Father's Name: Solomon Father's birthplace: Tennessee Mother's Name: Elisabeth Mother's
birthplace: Kentucky
Marital Status: Single Race: White Gender: Female Household Members: Name Age Solomon
Phelps 45 Elisabeth Phelps 33
Melvin Phelps 13 Mary A. Phelps 8 Millard Phelps 5 Ida B. Phelps 4 Sarah E. Phelps 1
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1892 Kentucky Marriages, 1851-1900 Name: A. L. Peters Spouse: Alice Phelps
Marriage Date: 24 Nov 1892 County: Lincoln State: KY
Source Information:
Dodd, Jordan, comp.. Kentucky Marriages, 1851-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.
Original data: See extended description for original data sources listed by county.
Description:
This database contains marriage records from various counties in the State of Kentucky, USA,
between 1851 and 1900. Each record provides spouses' names, marriage date, and county of
residence.
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1900 United States Federal Census Name: Alice M Peters Home in 1900: Civil District 6,
Morgan, Tennessee
Age: 27 Birth Date: Dec 1872 Birthplace: Kentucky Race: White Gender: Female
Relationship to Head of House: Wife
Father's Birthplace: Tennessee Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky Mother: number of living children: 4
Mother: How many children: 4
Spouse's name: Andrew S aka Andrew Layton Marriage Year: 1894 Marital Status: Married
Years Married: 6
Residence : Civil Districts 6, 12, Morgan, Tennessee Household Members: Name Age Andrew S
Peters 36 Alice M Peters 27
Ova O Peters 6 Lester H Peters 4 aka Orice Lester Peters Roman P Peters 2 ***he is missing
in the 1910 census Baby Peters 5/12
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1910 United States Federal Census Name: Alice Peters aka Mary Alice Age in 1910: 36
Estimated birth year: abt 1874
Birthplace: Kentucky Relation to Head of House: Wife Father's Birth Place: Kentucky Mother's
Birth Place: Kentucky
Spouse's name: Andrew L Home in 1910: Police Jury Ward 5, St Tammany, Louisiana Marital
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Spouse's name: Andrew L Home in 1910: Police Jury Ward 5, St Tammany, Louisiana Marital
Status: Married Race: White Gender: Female
Household Members: Name Age Andrew L Peters 46 Alice Peters 36 Ova Peters 16 Lester
Peters 14 Raymer Peters 12
Trafton Peters 10 Omer Peters 4 ***Omar Joy Peters 4 Reba Peters 2
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1920 United States Federal Census Name: Alice Peters Home in 1920: Poplarville, Pearl River,
Mississippi Age: 47 years Estimated birth year: abt 1873
Birthplace: Kentucky Relation to Head of House: Wife Spouse's name: A L Father's Birth
Place: Tennessee other's Birth Place: Kentucky
Marital Status: Married Race: White Sex: Female Able to read: Yes Able to Write: Yes
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age A L Peters 58 Alice Peters 47 Taofton Peters 17 *** Trafton
Homer Peters 15 ***Omar
Reba Peters 11 Maxine Peters 7 Ida Lon Peters 20 ***Ida Lou Williams Peters (she married
Raymer Phelps Peters
Ray Peters 21 ***Raymer
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This story was written by Randa Gay Talley:
I just wanted to share the story from Granny, Mae Maxine Peters, on a visit as I passed through
town once, going to an interview for an airline. She told me of when Mama Alice [Mary Alice
Phelps Peters] told her she wasn't 'really' her mother. Granny was still little...about 9 then. She
told her Olga [Ova Olga Peters] was really her mother and Granny said she ran out of the house
refusing to believe it... having been so shaken by it, they never mentioned it again! at all...for her
entire life, until Granny decided to share it to her grown grandchildren...but I think only Mama's
(Joyce Nell Amacker Talley) kids were told.
She also told me that Mama Alice forbade contact with Bilbo? (Who we are pretty sure is the
scoundrel)... but she found a whole stack of cards hidden under the seat of a car someone had in
the family. It was letters and postcards and all the postcards had a clock on them...that must've
been a secret message between them. Mama Alice burned them all. What I wouldn't do to have
those cards!! ..But as a Mother, the pain she was put through by her child, I am sure I would have
done the very same and not thought one second about historical anything! This story makes for a
very good part in a book I hope to write one day :)
Granny also told me once they (or either this was Olga & her siblings’ story, I've since forgotten
this major detail, sadly)...but were left at home while the adults went into town on horse & buggy. A
sweet lady came to babysit them. As this kind stranger took care of them for the best part of the
day, the parents returned. As they came to the house, the lady was seen to be looking toward
heaven and simply vanished & they could not find her. Sweet story and granny told it with precise,
sincere truth in her voice...as matter of fact and nothing less.
Granny told me that as Olga was a teenager, she became quite a Preacher at some of the tent
meetings and brush arbor gatherings. I about fell off my chair to learn that, but it was something
that I could tell made Granny very proud, but felt she'd definitely walked away from a tremendous
call on her life as a minister. If I'd not heard Granny tell me this, I'd not believe it. "Aunt" Olga was
very different than Granny, in regard to being a devoted & vocal Christian. I hear myself
sometimes mimic Granny as she ends things she was doing with a reverential "Jesus, Jesus".
Granny had severe osteoporosis in her aging years, but the women of Poplarville must've known
who my grandmother was, as a lady of God. Granny told me she'd met one of the ladies from the
Baptist Church while working at the hospital as a nurse’s aide. This lady was in charge of the
women's bible study. She asked Granny to come speak after having spoken with Granny to
realize she held deep faith in God. I was very surprised to hear Granny would do this! She told me
how she shared with them how God healed her and they all cried as she told her story...how God
healed her of pain in her legs that hurt so badly & she had heard the Lord tell her to open His
Word, lay it on her legs and she'd be healed. Granny said it was a total miraculous deliverance
from pain. As Granny ended up in a nursing home in the end, the doctors x-rayed her legs and
marveled at how it could even be possible for her to have walked, the bones were so porous.
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She left us a very rich legacy of faith & we are very thankful to have come from such a spiritual
legacy!!
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Web: Mississippi, Find A Grave Index, 1798-2011 Name: Mary Alice Peters Birth Date: 1872
Age at Death: 67 Death Date: 1939
Burial Place: Picayune, Pearl River County, Mississippi, USA
URL: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-...
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Web: Mississippi, Find A Grave Index, 1798-2011 [database on-line]. Provo, UT,
USA: Ancestry Operations, Inc., 2012.
Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi: accessed 13
February 2012.
Notes for Andrew Layton Peters:
Andrew was a bee keeper, a fiddle player, a photographer, a craftsman and a farmer,
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the railroad was constructed through the area in 1879, the Stapleton depot was named "Sunbright,"
and the name was eventually applied to the entire town. Andrew treaveled from Burrville to
Sunbright to catch the train to Lincoln ,Kentucky where he met Mary Alice Phelps, Married her and
returned to Burrville.
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Sharon Jerry Alexander Bond wrote: "Mom (Shirley A Peters B:16 Apr 1926) remembers how her
grandfather, Andrew, used to pack his camera and tripod over his shoulder and walk off into the
piney woods....He would be gone for a couple of days taking pictures. Uncle Ray (Raymer Phelps
Peters Jr B: 26 Sep 1920:) , her oldest brother and Andrew's grandson, was a great photographer
as well. He took literally thousands of pictures and slides. "
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Afer looking at my census data it looks like Andrew Layton moved from Morgan County Tennessee
between 1908-1909 to St Tammany, Louisiana, USA this is based on the fact that his daughter
Reba was about age 2 in 1910 and she was born in Tennessee. Shirley Ardell Peters Alexander
estimated that Andrew moved his family to Poplarville, Mississippi about 1914.
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Andrew was blind in one eye...In our family, my mother,Shirley Ardell Peters, and her siblings
called them Pop Peters and Mom Alice instead of grandfather and grandmother...they were my
great-grandparents....I never knew them stated Sharon Jerry Alexander Bond.
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Andrew L. PETERS 1864 1943
Mary Alice Phelps PETERS 1872 1939
Buried in NEW PALESTINE CEMETERY, CITY SECTION B Picayune, Pearl River County,
Mississippi
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1870 United States Federal Census Name: Andrew Peters Birth Year: abt 1863 *** 10 July
1864 Age in 1870: 7 Birthplace: Tennessee Home in 1870: District 5, Morgan, Tennessee
Race: White Gender: Male Post Office: Pine Top Household Members: Name Age Henry Peters
30 Frances Peters 33 Andrew Peters 7 Mary Peters 4 Rachel Peters 2 Nancy Peters 1/12
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1880 United States Federal Census Name: John B. Peters Home in 1880: District 6, Morgan,
Tennessee Age: 6 Estimated birth year: abt 1874 Birthplace: Tennessee Relation to Head of
Household: Son Father's Name: Henry F. Peters Father's birthplace: Tennessee Mother's Name:
Frances Peters Mother's birthplace: Tennessee Marital Status: Single Race: White Gender:
Male Household Members: Name Age Henry F. Peters 40 Frances Peters 43 Andrew L.
Peters 16 Mary E. Peters 14 Rachel N. Peters 12 Nancy J. Peters 10 Celestia V. Peters 9
James H. Peters 8 John B. Peters 6 Minnie B. Peters 4 Rutherford H. Peters 1
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1892 Kentucky Marriages, 1851-1900 Name: A. L. Peters Spouse: Alice Phelps
Marriage Date: 24 Nov 1892 County: Lincoln State: KY
Generation 1 (con't)
Source Information:
Dodd, Jordan, comp.. Kentucky Marriages, 1851-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.
Original data: See extended description for original data sources listed by county.
Description:
This database contains marriage records from various counties in the State of Kentucky, USA,
between 1851 and 1900. Each record provides spouses' names, marriage date, and county of
residence. Learn more...
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1900 State: Tennessee County: Morgan City: Sixth Civil District Enumeration date: June 6
1900 Name: Andrew L. Peters Relationship: Head Color: W Sex: M Month of birth: July
Year of birth: 1863 *** his tombstone shows 1864 Age at last birthday: 36 Single, married,
widowed, or divorced: M Number of years married: 6 Place of birth: Tennessee Father's
place of birth: Tennessee Mother's place of birth: Tennessee Occupation: Photographer
Months not employed: 3 Can read: yes Can write: yes Can speak English: yes Home
owned or rented: R Farm or house: H
Name: Alice M. Peters ***aka Mary Alice Phelps Peters Relationship: Wife Color: W Sex: F
Month of birth: Dec Year of birth: 1872 Age at last birthday: 27 Single, married, widowed, or
divorced: M Number of years married: 6 Mother of how many children: 4 Number of these
children living: 4 Place of birth: Kentucky Father's place of birth: Tennessee Mother's place
of birth: Kentucky Can read: yes Can write: yes Can speak English: yes
Name: Ova O. Peters *** Ova Olga Peters aka Olga Peters Relationship: Daughter Color: W
Sex: F Month of birth: Nov Year of birth: 1893 Age at last birthday: 6 Single, married,
widowed, or divorced: S Place of birth: Tennessee Father's place of birth: Tennessee
Mother's place of birth: Kentucky
Name: Lester H. Peters *** aka Orice Leter Peters Relationship: Son Color: W Sex: M Month
of birth: Feb Year of birth: 1896 Age at last birthday: 4 Single, married, widowed, or divorced:
S Place of birth: Tennessee Father's place of birth: Tennessee Mother's place of birth:
Kentucky
Name: Ramon P. Peters Relationship: Son Color: W Sex: M Month of birth: Oct Year of
birth: 1897 Age at last birthday: 2 Single, married, widowed, or divorced: S Place of birth:
Tennessee Father's place of birth: Tennessee Mother's place of birth: Kentucky
Name: Baby Peters *** Raymer Phelps Peters Relationship: Son Color: W Sex: M Month
of birth: Dec Year of birth: 1899 Age at last birthday: Single, married, widowed, or divorced:
S Place of birth: Tennessee Father's place of birth: Tennessee Mother's place of birth:
Kentucky
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1910 Louisiana County: St. Tammany City: Fifth Ward Enumeration date: April 23 1910
Name: Andrew L. Peters Relationship: Head Sex: M Color: W Age at last birthday: 46
Single, married, widowed, or divorced: M Number of years of present marriage: 17 Place of
birth: Tennessee Father's place of birth: Tennessee Mother's place of birth: Tennessee Can
speak English: English Occupation: Carpenter Industry: Working out Emplorer, employee,
self-employed: W Weeks not employed during 1909: 12 Whether out of work on April 15, 1910:
no Can read: yes Can write: yes Home owned or rented: R Farm or house: H
Name: Alice Peters ***aka Mary Alice Phelps Peters Relationship: Wife Sex: F Color: W
Age at last birthday: 36 Single, married, widowed, or divorced: M Number of years of present
marriage: 17 Mother of how many children: 8 Number of these children now living: 7 *** she
may have lost a child that was born in 1902 Ramon P ??
Place of birth: Kentucky Father's place of birth: Kentucky Mother's place of birth: Kentucky
Can speak English: English Can read: yes Can write: yes Place of birth: Tennessee Father's
place of birth: Tennessee Mother's place of birth: Kentucky Can speak English: English
Can read: yes Can write: yes Attended school any time since Sept. 1, 1909: yes
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Name: Lester Peters ***aka Orice Lester Peters Relationship: Son Sex: M Color: W Age
at last birthday: 14 Place of birth: Tennessee Father's place of birth: Tennessee Mother's
place of birth: Kentucky Can speak English: English Occupation: none Can read: yes
Can write: yes Attended school any time since Sept. 1, 1909: yes
Name: Raymer Peters *** Raymer Phelps Peters Relationship: Son Sex: M Color: W Age
at last birthday: 12 Single, married, widowed, or divorced: S Place of birth: Tennessee
Father's place of birth: Tennessee Mother's place of birth: Kentucky Can speak English:
English Occupation: none Can read: yes Can write: yes
Attended school any time since Sept. 1, 1909: yes
Name: Trafton Peters Relationship: Son Sex: M Color: W Age at last birthday: 10 Single,
married, widowed, or divorced: S Place of birth: Tennessee Father's place of birth: Tennessee
Mother's place of birth: Kentucky Can speak English: English Occupation: none Can read:
yes Can write: yes Attended school any time since Sept. 1, 1909: yes
Name: Omer Peters ***Omar Relationship: Son Sex: M Color: W Age at last birthday: 6
Single, married, widowed, or divorced: S
Place of birth: Tennessee Father's place of birth: Tennessee Mother's place of birth: Kentucky
Attended school any time since Sept. 1, 1909: no
Name: Joy Peters Relationship: Daughter Sex: F Color: W Age at last birthday: 4 Single,
married, widowed, or divorced: S
Place of birth: Tennessee Father's place of birth: Tennessee Mother's place of birth: Kentucky
Occupation: none
Name: Reba Peters Relationship: Daughter Sex: F Color: W Age at last birthday: 2
Single, married, widowed, or divorced: S
Place of birth: Tennessee Father's place of birth: Tennessee Mother's place of birth: Kentucky
Occupation: none
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1920 Name: A. L. Peters ***Andrew Layton Peters Relationship: Head Home owned or rented:
R Sex: M Color: W
Age at last birthday: 58 Single, married, widowed, or divorced: M Able to read: yes Able to
write: yes
Place of birth: Tennessee Father's place of birth: Tennessee Mother's place of birth:
Tennessee
Can speak English: yes Occupation: Photographer
Name: Alice Peters ***aka Mary Alice Phelps Peters Relationship: Wife Sex: F Color: W
Age at last birthday: 47
Single, married, widowed, or divorced: M Able to read: yes Able to write: yes Place of birth:
Kentucky
Father's place of birth: Tennessee Mother's place of birth: Kentucky Can speak English: yes
Name: Trafton Peters Relationship: son Sex: M Color: W Age at last birthday: 17 Single,
married, widowed, or divorced: S
Attended school any time since Sept. 1, 1919: yes Able to read: yes Able to write: yes
Place of birth: Tennessee
Father's place of birth: Tennessee Mother's place of birth: Kentucky Can speak English: yes
Name: Homer Peters ***aka Omar Relationship: son Sex: M Color: W Age at last
birthday: 15
Single, married, widowed, or divorced: S Attended school any time since Sept. 1, 1919: yes
Able to read: yes Able to write: yes
Place of birth: Tennessee Father's place of birth: Tennessee Mother's place of birth: Kentucky
Can speak English: yes
Name: Reba Peters Relationship: daughter Sex: F Color: W Age at last birthday: 11
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Name: Reba Peters Relationship: daughter Sex: F Color: W Age at last birthday: 11
Single, married, widowed, or divorced: S
Attended school any time since Sept. 1, 1919: yes Able to read: yes Able to write: yes Place
of birth: Tennessee
Father's place of birth: Tennessee Mother's place of birth: Kentucky Can speak English: yes
Occupation: none
Name: Maxine Peters *** Mae Maxine Peters Relationship: daughter Sex: F Color: W
Age at last birthday: 7
Single, married, widowed, or divorced: S Able to read: yes Able to write: yes Place of birth:
Mississippi
Father's place of birth: Tennessee Mother's place of birth: Kentucky Can speak English: yes
Occupation: none
Name: Ida Low Peters [indexed as "Lon"] ***aka Ida Lou Williams Peters Relationship:
daughter-in-law Sex: F Color: W
Age at last birthday: 20 Single, married, widowed, or divorced: M Able to read: yes Able to
write: yes Place of birth: Mississippi
Father's place of birth: Mississippi Mother's place of birth: Mississippi Can speak English:
yes Occupation: none
Name: Ray Peters *** Raymer Phelps Peters Relationship: son Sex: M Color: W Age at
last birthday: 21
Single, married, widowed, or divorced: M Able to read: yes Able to write: yes Place of birth:
Tennessee
Father's place of birth: Tennessee Mother's place of birth: Kentucky Can speak English: yes
Occupation: Mechanic
Industry: Automobile
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1930 United States Federal Census Name: A L Peters Home in 1930: Beat 1, Pearl River,
Mississippi Enumeration date: April 5 1930 Place of Abode Street: Valley Road Home
owned or rented: R Value of house: 10 Radio set: Does this family live on a farm: no
Name: A. L. Peters ***Andrew L Peters Relation: Head Sex: M Color or race: W Age at
last birthday: 67
Marital condition: M Age at first marriage: 28 Attended school or college any time since Sept.
1, 1929: no
Whether able to read or write: yes Place of birth: Tennessee Father's place of birth:
Tennessee
Mother's place of birth: Tennessee Whether able to speak English: yes Occupation: none
Whether a veteran: no
Name: Marrie Peters *** Mary Alice Phelps Relation: Wife Sex: F Color or race: W Age at
last birthday: 57 Marital condition: M
Age at first marriage: 19 Attended school or college any time since Sept. 1, 1929: no Whether
able to read or write: yes
Place of birth: Kentucky Father's place of birth: Tennessee Mother's place of birth: Kentucky
Whether able to speak English: yes
Name: Omar Peters Relation: son Sex: M Color or race: W Age at last birthday: 26 Marital
condition: S Attended school or college any time since Sept. 1, 1929: no Whether able to
read or write: yes Place of birth: Tennessee Father's place of birth: Tennessee Mother's
place of birth: Kentucky Whether able to speak English: yes Occupation: Book Keeper
Industry: Garage Whether actually at work: no Whether a veteran: no
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Web: Mississippi, Find A Grave Index, 1798-2011 Name: Andrew L Peters
Birth Date: 1864 Age at Death: 79 Death Date: 1943
Burial Place: Picayune, Pearl River County, Mississippi, USA
URL: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-...
Generation 1 (con't)
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Web: Mississippi, Find A Grave Index, 1798-2011 [database on-line]. Provo, UT,
USA: Ancestry Operations, Inc., 2012.
Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi: accessed 13
February 2012.
Andrew Layton Peters and Mary Alice Phelps had the following children:
2. i. OVA OLGA2 PETERS was born on 26 Nov 1893 in Morgan, Tennessee, USA. She
died on 20 Oct 1981 in Columbus, Lowndes, Mississippi, USA. She married Walter
Edward Tourne, son of Dan Tourney and Mag Tourney about 1917. He was born
on 02 Mar 1896 in Poplarville, Pearl River, Mississippi, USA. He died on 23 Sep
1975 in Picayune, Pearl River, Mississippi, USA.
3. ii. ORICE LESTER PETERS was born on 29 Feb 1896 in Morgan, Tennessee, USA
(Burrville district 6). He died on 31 Aug 1968 in Biloxi, Harrison, Mississippi, USA
(VA Hospital). He married Mary Alice Amacker, daughter of Thomas Pearson
Amacker and Emma Rebecca Byrd on 20 Jun 1919 in Poplarville, Pearl River,
Mississippi, USA. She was born on 11 May 1900 in Marion, Mississippi, USA. She
died on 28 Jun 1974 in Poplarville, Pearl River, Mississippi, USA.
iii. ROMAN P PETERS was born in Oct 1897 in Tennessee, USA. He died before 1910.
Notes for Roman P Peters:
1900 United States Federal Census Name: Roman P Peters [Ramon P Peters]
Age: 2
Birth Date: Oct 1897 Birthplace: Tennessee Home in 1900: Civil District 6,
Morgan, Tennessee [Morgan]
Race: White Gender: Male Relation to Head of House: Son Marital Status:
Single
Father's Name: Andrew S Peters [Andrew Layton Peters] Father's Birthplace:
Tennessee
Mother's Name: Alice M Peters [Mary Alice Phelps] Mother's Birthplace:
Kentucky
Household Members: Name Age Andrew S Peters 36 Alice M Peters 27 Ova
O Peters 6 [Ova Olga Peters]
Lester H Peters 4 [Orice Lester Peters] Roman P Peters 2 Baby Peters 5/12
[Raymer Phelps Peters]
Source Citation: Year: 1900; Census Place: Civil District 6, Morgan, Tennessee;
Roll: 1591; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 109; FHL microfilm: 1241591.
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From the 1910 census for Mary Alice Phelps Peters : Name: Alice Peters ***aka
Mary Alice Phelps Peters Relationship: Wife Sex: F Color: W Age at last
birthday: 36 Single, married, widowed, or divorced: M Number of years of
present marriage: 17 Mother of how many children: 8 Number of these
children now living: 7 *** she may have lost a child that was born in 1902 Ramon
P ??
Place of birth: Kentucky Father's place of birth: Kentucky Mother's place of birth:
Kentucky Can speak English: English Can read: yes Can write: yes Place of
birth: Tennessee Father's place of birth: Tennessee Mother's place of birth:
Kentucky Can speak English: English Can read: yes Can write: yes
Attended school any time since Sept. 1, 1909: yes
4. iv. RAYMER PHELPS PETERS was born on 15 Oct 1898 in Morgan, Tennessee, USA. He
died in Jul 1975 in Poplarville, Pearl River, Mississippi, USA. He married Ida Lou
Williams, daughter of Hardy Lee Williams and Emily Adelaide Stewart in 1918. She
was born on 13 Dec 1900 in Picayune, Pearl River, Mississippi, USA. She died on
Generation 1 (con't)
was born on 13 Dec 1900 in Picayune, Pearl River, Mississippi, USA. She died on
03 Sep 1972 in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
5. v. MILLARD TRAFTON PETERS was born on 23 Jan 1903 in Morgan, Tennessee, USA.
He died on 04 May 1975 in Clinton, Hinds, Mississippi, USA. He married ELEANOR
FRANCES "LENA" SEAL. She was born on 22 Apr 1904 in Pearl River, Mississippi,
USA. She died on 28 Jan 1977 in Clinton, Hinds, Mississippi, USA.
6. vi. OMAR JOHN PETERS was born on 14 Feb 1905 in Morgan, Tennessee, USA. He
died on 07 Oct 1947 in Poplarville, Pearl River, Mississippi, USA. He married Leona
Lora Ladner, daughter of Ernest E. Ladner and Marie Annie Patton about 1931. She
was born on 28 Jul 1917 in Mississippi, USA. She died on 09 Jun 1990 in
Mississippi, USA.
vii. JOY PETERS was born about 1906 in Morgan, Tennessee, USA. She died about
1910.
Notes for Joy Peters:
Sharon Bond talked to her mother about Joy Peters. Joy was accidentally killed by
a gun. Some of the boys had gone hunting and had put their guns against the wall.
She was about four years old and a neighbor's child picked up the gun playing and
shot her.
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1910 United States Federal Census Name: Joy Peters Age in 1910: 4
Estimated birth year: abt 1906
Birthplace: Tennessee Relation to Head of House: Daughter Father's name:
Andrew L Peters
Father's Birth Place: Tennessee Mother's name: Alice Peters Mother's Birth
Place: Kentucky
Home in 1910: Police Jury Ward 5, St Tammany, Louisiana Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Gender: Female Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age Andrew L Peters 46 Alice Peters 36 Ova
Peters 16 Lester Peters 14
Raymer Peters 12 Trafton Peters 10 Omer Peters 4 Joy Peters 4 Reba
Peters 2
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viii. RHEBA PETERS was born on 03 Jul 1908 in Morgan, Tennessee, USA. She died on
31 Oct 1980 in Poplarville, Pearl River, Mississippi, USA (Oak Hill Cementary). She
married JOSEPH RAY LEE. He was born on 29 Jul 1909 in Mississippi, USA. He died
on 27 Dec 1976 in Lumberton, Lamar, Mississippi, USA.
Notes for Rheba Peters:
1910 United States Federal Census Name: Reba Peters Age in 1910: 2
Estimated birth year: abt 1908
Birthplace: Tennessee Relation to Head of House: Daughter Father's name:
Andrew L Peters
Father's Birth Place: Tennessee Mother's name: Alice Peters Mother's Birth
Place: Louisiana
Home in 1910: Police Jury Ward 5, St Tammany, Louisiana Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Gender: Female Neighbors: View others on page Household Members: Name
Age Andrew L Peters 46
Alice Peters 36 Ova Peters 16 Lester Peters 14 Raymer Peters 12
Trafton Peters 10 Omer Peters 4 Joy Peters 4 Reba Peters 2 [Rheba]
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1920 United States Federal Census Name: Reba Peters Home in 1920:
Poplarville, Pearl River, Mississippi Age: 11
Estimated birth year: abt 1909 Birthplace: Tennessee Relation to Head of
House: Daughter Father's name: A L Peters
Father's Birth Place: Tennessee Mother's name: Alice Peters Mother's Birth
Place: Kentucky Marital Status: Single
Race: White Sex: Female Able to read: Yes Able to Write: Yes Neighbors:
View others on page
Household Members: Name Age A L Peters 58 Alice Peters 47 Trafton Peters
17 Homar Peters 15 [Omar]
Reba Peters 11 Maxine Peters 7 Ida Lou Peters 20 Ray Peters 21 *** Ida Lou
Williams married Ray Peters aka Raymer Phelps Peters
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1930 United States Federal Census Name: Reba Lee Home in 1930:
Prichard, Mobile, Alabama Age: 20
Estimated birth year: abt 1910 Relation to Head of House: Wife Spouse's name:
Ray Lee Race: White
Household Members: Name Age Ray Lee 20 Reba Lee 20
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1940 United States Federal Census Name: Rheba Lee Respondent: Yes Age:
30
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1910 Gender: Female Race: White Birthplace:
Tennessee
Marital Status: Married Relation to Head of House: Wife Home in 1940: Panama
City, Bay, Florida
Street: Pain Avenue House Number: 416 Inferred Residence in 1935: Panama
City, Bay, Florida
Residence in 1935: Same Place Sheet Number: 8A Household Members: Name
Age Ray Lee 30 Rheba Lee 30
Source Citation: Year: 1940; Census Place: Panama City, Bay, Florida; Roll:
T627_574; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 3-1.
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1980 Social Security Death Index Name: Rheba Lee SSN: 428-62-0658
Last Residence: 39455 Lumberton, Lamar, Mississippi, United States of America
Born: 3 Apr 1908 Died: Oct 1980 State (Year) SSN issued: Mississippi (1951)
***Her tombstone shows B:3 July 1908
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Web: Mississippi, Find A Grave Index, 1798-2011 Name: Rheba Peters Lee
Birth Date: 1908
Age at Death: 72 Death Date: 1980 Burial Place: Pearl River County,
Mississippi, USA
URL: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-...
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Web: Mississippi, Find A Grave Index, 1798-2011 [database on-line].
Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry Operations, Inc., 2012.
Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi:
accessed 13 February 2012.
7. ix. MAE MAXINE PETERS was born on 15 May 1913 in Poplarville, Pearl River,
Mississippi, USA. She died on 28 Jan 2003 in Poplarville, Pearl River, Mississippi,
USA (OAK HILL CEMETERY POPLARVILLE, MS). She married Asa Argel
Amacker, son of Obadiah Holliman "Obe" Amacker and Susan Josephine "Susie"
Smith on 14 Feb 1929 in Poplarville, Pearl River, Mississippi, USA. He was born on
05 Oct 1907 in Poplarville, Pearl River, Mississippi, USA. He died on 16 Oct 1961 in
Poplarville, Pearl River, Mississippi, USA.
Generation 2
2. OVA OLGA2 PETERS (Mary Alice1 Phelps) was born on 26 Nov 1893 in Morgan, Tennessee, USA.
She died on 20 Oct 1981 in Columbus, Lowndes, Mississippi, USA. She married Walter Edward
Tourne, son of Dan Tourney and Mag Tourney about 1917. He was born on 02 Mar 1896 in
Poplarville, Pearl River, Mississippi, USA. He died on 23 Sep 1975 in Picayune, Pearl River,
Mississippi, USA.
Notes for Ova Olga Peters:
Sharon Alexander Bond remembers Grand Aunt Olga had beautiful sky blue eyes like her
granddaddy Raymer Phelps Peters had.
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1894 Tennessee, Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909 Name: Ova Olga Peters Gender:
Female
Birth Date: 26 Nov 1894 Birth Place: Burrville, Morgan
Father: Andrew Layton Peters Mother: Mary Alice Phelps
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Tennessee, Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
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1900 State: Tennessee County: Morgan City: Sixth Civil District Enumeration date: June 6
1900 Name: Andrew L. Peters Relationship: Head Color: W Sex: M Month of birth: July
Year of birth: 1863 *** his tombstone shows 1864 Age at last birthday: 36 Single, married,
widowed, or divorced: M Number of years married: 6 Place of birth: Tennessee Father's
place of birth: Tennessee Mother's place of birth: Tennessee Occupation: Photographer
Months not employed: 3 Can read: yes Can write: yes Can speak English: yes Home
owned or rented: R Farm or house: H
Name: Alice M. Peters ***aka Mary Alice Phelps Peters Relationship: Wife Color: W Sex: F
Month of birth: Dec Year of birth: 1872 Age at last birthday: 27 Single, married, widowed, or
divorced: M Number of years married: 6 Mother of how many children: 4 Number of these
children living: 4 Place of birth: Kentucky Father's place of birth: Tennessee Mother's place
of birth: Kentucky Can read: yes Can write: yes Can speak English: yes
Name: Ova O. Peters *** Ova Olga Peters aka Olga Peters Relationship: Daughter Color: W
Sex: F Month of birth: Nov Year of birth: 1893 Age at last birthday: 6 Single, married,
widowed, or divorced: S Place of birth: Tennessee Father's place of birth: Tennessee
Mother's place of birth: Kentucky
Name: Lester H. Peters *** aka Orice Leter Peters Relationship: Son Color: W Sex: M Month
of birth: Feb Year of birth: 1896 Age at last birthday: 4 Single, married, widowed, or divorced:
S Place of birth: Tennessee Father's place of birth: Tennessee Mother's place of birth:
Kentucky
Name: Ramon P. Peters Relationship: Son Color: W Sex: M Month of birth: Oct Year of
birth: 1897 Age at last birthday: 2 Single, married, widowed, or divorced: S Place of birth:
Tennessee Father's place of birth: Tennessee Mother's place of birth: Kentucky
Name: Baby Peters *** Raymer Phelps Peters Relationship: Son Color: W Sex: M Month
of birth: Dec Year of birth: 1899 Age at last birthday: Single, married, widowed, or divorced:
S Place of birth: Tennessee Father's place of birth: Tennessee Mother's place of birth:
Kentucky
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This story was written by Randa Gay Talley:
I just wanted to share the story from Granny, Mae Maxine Peters, on a visit as I passed through
town once, going to an interview for an airline. She told me of when Mama Alice [Mary Alice
Phelps Peters] told her she wasn't 'really' her mother. Granny was still little...about 9 then. She