ID	First	Middle	Last	DOB	DOD	COD
155	Ida	M.	Phelps	12/5/1857	8/27/1858	N/A

veteran	exhumed	purchaser	cemetery
N/A	FALSE	N/A	Adams Street

lot	plot
N/A	R7 G3 west face, barely legible incised carving

relations

Roger Phelps (father) M.S. Phelps (mother) Cecil (sister? b. c 1849) Ella (sister b. c1855, d. 13 Jan 1861) Charles (brother b. 11 November 1860, d. 13 December 1860)

comments

Berea lists her date of burial as 28 August 1858, her age at death as 9 months (“List of burials and names”). A transcription of a headstone is recorded in 1934 and 1904. "Ida M. born Dec 5, 1857, Died Aug 27, 1858 children of Robert and M.S Phelps" (1904) However the 1934 transcription says "Phelps… Illegible…children of R & H.S Phelps" 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 (Cecilia?) was 11 years old and born in Ohio. Daughter Ella was 5 years old and born in Ohio. Roger Phelps purchased lot# 123. In 2007, the white marble obelisk was found to be grayed, mossy, and badly repaired with cement. Incised carving on the west face can be felt, spelling "IDA M." Two other faces are also carved with inscriptions, for Ella A. (north face) and Charles ("C" on 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 Ida M. Phelps inscription photograph, Indira Gesink, 2007.