Mary Crossett

1819 - 1904  (~ 91 years)

 Set As Default Person

• Name	Mary Crossett  [1]
  Born	Between 1813 and 1819	New York, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Residence	1880	Burton, Genesee, Michigan, USA   [3]
  Census	1900	Burton, Genesee, Michigan, USA   [1]
  Reference Number	5832
  Died	31 Jan 1904	Burton, Genesee, Michigan, USA   [4, 5, 6]
  Buried	Kitchen Cemetery, Davison, Genesee, Michigan, USA
  Person ID	I5832	FelsingFam
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	John Crossett, Jr,   b. Between 1780 and 1790, Massachusetts, USA
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F3154	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Reuben Gibson Phelps,   b. Between 1814 and 1815, New York, USA ,   d. 15 Jul 1879, Burton, Genesee, Michigan, USA  (Age ~ 65 years)
  Children	+ 1. Henrietta Phelps,   b. 28 Jan 1835, Fort Ann, Washington, New York, USA ,   d. 5 Oct 1887, Tuscola, Michigan, USA  (Age 52 years)  [natural] + 2. Delia Phelps,   b. 1838,   d. 2 Apr 1913, St Johns, Clinton, Michigan, USA  (Age 75 years)  [natural] + 3. Leander Phelps,   b. 10 Dec 1841, New York, USA ,   d. 13 Feb 1909, Chesaning, Saginaw, Michigan, USA  (Age 67 years)  [natural] + 4. Eugene Phelps,   b. 1843, Washington, New York, USA ,   d. Aft 1920  (Age > 78 years)  [natural] + 5. Jerome Phelps,   b. 14 Sep 1845, New York, USA ,   d. 24 Apr 1913  (Age 67 years)  [natural] + 6. Sandra Luceba Phelps,   b. 13 Nov 1847,   d. 12 Apr 1900, St Johns, Clinton, Michigan, USA  (Age 52 years)  [natural] + 7. Freeland Phelps,   b. 16 Nov 1849, Fort Edward, Washington, New York, USA ,   d. 12 Jan 1884  (Age 34 years)  [natural] + 8. Adeline Phelps,   b. 1853, New York, USA ,   d. 22 Sep 1914, Genesee, Michigan, USA  (Age 61 years)  [natural]   9. Alice Phelps,   b. 1855, Michigan, USA  [natural]   10. Lavona Phelps,   b. 29 Jul 1856, Michigan, USA ,   d. 13 Feb 1864, Michigan, USA  (Age 7 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024
  Family ID	F1687	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - Between 1813 and 1819 - New York, USA Residence - 1880 - Burton, Genesee, Michigan, USA Census - 1900 - Burton, Genesee, Michigan, USA Died - 31 Jan 1904 - Burton, Genesee, Michigan, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  		1880 United States Federal Census Database online. Burton, Genesee, Michigan, ED 66, roll T9_579, page 35.2000, image 0073.
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  		1850 United States Federal Census Database online. Fort Ann, Washington, New York, roll M432_610, page 86, image 441.
  		1900 United States Federal Census Database online. Year: 1900; Census Place: Burton, Genesee, Michigan; Roll: T623_710; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 3.
  		Mary Crossett Phelps-obit-p2 Flint, Michigan Daily News front page article
  		Mary Crossette Phelps-obit-p1 Flint, Michigan Daily News Front Page Article
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• Notes

  2/1/1904 Flint Daily News-Flint, Michigan (HEADLINE:) She lived alone near her son. When found her body was found lying on the bed with the clothing burned off. Mrs. Mary Phelps met with a terrible death last evening, shortly before 6 o'clock, being burned to death at her home on the farm of her son, Jerome, on Atherton Street in Burton. Mrs. Phelps lived alone in a little house about 4 rods east of the residence of the son named, and (her) grandson Arthur, living several rods east of her. Last evening, between 5 and 6 o'clock her son went to the house where his mother lived to fix the fire and found her seated before the stove. He did what was necessary to the stove and cautioned the old lady, who was about eighty-six, not to meddle with the fire. Shortly before 6 o’clock Arthur left his house to go to the barn to harness a horse to take two ladies who were visiting him to the electric railway station at Morrish’s crossing, and while passing the house smelled smoke. He groped his way to the chair in which his grandmother usually sat, and finding her not there ran to the bed, on which he found her lying. He was unable to carry her out and called for his father. Together they carried the bed out of the house and found Mrs. Phelps was dead. Her clothing had been burned off her body and the bed clothing had been burned. It is supposed that her clothing caught fire and she rushed to the bed and threw herself upon it in the hope that the fire would be extinguished by so doing, or that a spark set fire to her dress and she went to bed, and while lying down the spark burst into a blaze and she was burned to death. The two young ladies who were visiting the younger Phelps passed the house a few minutes before Arthur did and smelled nothing. Mrs. Phelps was born in New York and came to Davison with her husband, R.G. Phelps about 50 years ago. They lived in Davison for about twenty years and then moved to Burton where Mr. Phelps died about twenty-five years ago. She is survived by six children. They are Jerome, of Burton; Leander, of Saginaw; Eugene, who lives in California; Mrs. Delos Cole, of St. Johns; Mrs. Adaline Thompson, who lives near Millington, and Alice of Gratiot county. Dr. Charles was notified and went to Burton last night, but did not deem an inquest necessary. The funeral will be held on Wednesday at 10 a.m. from the home of her son, Jerome. Interment will be made in the Kitchen cemetery in Davison. (death certificate lists cause of death-smothered by smoke) (death certificate list John Crosette as her father, mother unknown). Deed in Fort Ann, Washington County, New York 7/12/1849, Reuben G. Phelps and his wife Mary purchased land in Fort Ann from John Crosett and his wife Lucy. Deed Liber book 21. page 178.

  
  

• Sources

  [S5] 1900 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), Database online. Genesee, Michigan, ED 3, roll T623 710, page 8A. Record for Mary Phelps 1900 United States Federal Census Database online. Year: 1900; Census Place: Burton, Genesee, Michigan; Roll: T623_710; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 3. [S17] 1850 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Database online. Fort Ann, Washington, New York, roll M432_610, page 86, image 441. Record for Delia Phelps reuben phelps 1850 p2 1850 United States Federal Census Database online. Fort Ann, Washington, New York, roll M432_610, page 86, image 441. [S7] 1880 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Record for Reuben Phelps Database online. Burton, Genesee, Michigan, ED 66, roll T9_579, page 35.2000, image 0073. 1880 United States Federal Census Database online. Burton, Genesee, Michigan, ED 66, roll T9_579, page 35.2000, image 0073. [S180] Genesee County, Michigan Death Ledger, Crossette, Mary V3 p228 rec1781. Mary Phelps Born New York dod 1/31/04 Burton Twp, Gensesee fth John crosette mth unk smothered by smoke filed 2/4/1904 D_phelps_mary01311904left D_phelps_mary01311904right [S29] Genesee County Newspaper Obituaries, Crossette, Mary 2/1/04 Flint Daily News. HEADLINE:) She lived alone near her son. When found her body was found lying on the bed with the clothing burned off. Mrs. Mary Phelps met with a terrible death last evening, shortly before 6 o'clock, being burned to death at her home on the farm of her son, Jerome, on Atherton Street in Burton. Mrs. Phelps lived alone in a little house about 4 rods east of the residence of the son named, and (her) grandson Arthur, living several rods east of her. Last evening, between 5 and 6 o'clock her son went to the house where his mother lived to fix the fire and found her seated before the stove. He did what was necessary to the stove and cautioned the old lady, who was about eighty-six, not to meddle with the fire. Shortly before 6 o’clock Arthur left his house to go to the barn to harness a horse to take two ladies who were visiting him to the electric railway station at Morrish’s crossing, and while passing the house smelled smoke. He groped his way to the chair in which hi Mary Crossett Phelps-obit-p2 Flint, Michigan Daily News front page article Mary Crossette Phelps-obit-p1 Flint, Michigan Daily News Front Page Article [S10] "Michigan Digital Archive Collection", State of Michigan, Archives of Michigan Digital Collections, Mary Crossett. O_Crossett Mary