We reveal the history of the community through the stories of its dead
individual record

id
first
middle
last
dob
dod
cod
153CharlesH.Phelps11/11/186012/13/1860

veteran
exhumed
purchaser
cemetery
FALSEAdams Street

lot
plot
R7 G3 east face of stone; inscription worn, broken just under "C" of his name
relations
Roger Phelps (father) M.S. Phelps (mother) Cecil (sister? b. c 1849) Ella (sister b. c1855 d c. 1861) Ida (sister b. 5 Dec 1857, d. 27 August 1858)

comments
A transcription of a tombstone was recorded in 1904 and 1934. "Charles H. Phelps born Nov 11, 1860, died Dec 2, 1860" (1904) The 1934 trancription mentions the Phelps stone, however the stone is "illegible" (1934). The Phelps Family was enumerated in the 1860 federal US census in Middleburg. Father, Roger, was 36 years old, listed as a Grog Maker, with $1,500 in real estate and $500 in personal estate, born in New York. Wife, Mary P. was 33 years old and born in Ohio. Daughter Cecil was 11 years old and born in Ohio. Daughter Ella was 5 years old and born in Ohio. Roger Phelps purchased lot# 123. The stone, originally white marble, was in 2007 very dirty and mossy. A break in the center was repaired badly with cement, obscuring the inscriptions. "Ida M." is incised into the west face, "Ella A." in relief on the north face, and "C" on the east face.

sources
E.S. Loomis and D.T. Gould, “Inscriptions from the Old Berea Cemetery,” 1904, Berea Historical Society “Cuyahoga Cemetery Inscriptions,” Vol. I, complied by the Western Reserve Historical Society, 1934 1860 US Federal Census,Middleburg, Roger Phelps household, Series:M653 Roll: 954 Page: 130-131 (HeritageQuest.com) “Numbers of burial lots and price,” Adams Street Cemetery folder, Berea Historical Society Phelps tombstone photograph, Indira Gesink, 2007.