Perry & Cary Hoover 75th Birthday and Other Family Information

Harry E. Phelps Suicide Newspaper article

From a scrapbook of Lillian Phelps:

Nancy Wilson Talks About Lillian Wilson Part 1

I do not remember my grandmother Wilson. She died the day after my first birthday. However my parents spoke of her often so combined with the collection of photos and personal items I feel as if I know her. Back in 1986 I asked my Mom to make a cassette recording of her memories of my grandmother. As one would expect she talks about other family members and friends. Due to file size limitations the audio is broken up into many parts. I also had to eliminate all the photographs and the quality is not high definition visually or audibly.

Crown Hill Cemetery May 2013

This past week I was in Indianapolis IN to visit my cousin. While there we took a trip to Crown Hill Cememtery to find the graves of my Phelps/Hoover relatives. Below are a few images of my Great Grandparents:

Below are my Great Great Grandparents and Aunt:

Harry E. Phelps House

Here is a Google Street View of the house at 2401 Kenwood Ave. (Now 2401 N. Kenwood Ave.) Indianapolis Indiana 46208, where my Great Grandparents Harry E. and Amy Phelps lived with my Grandmother Lillian Phelps. The house was built in 1910. In March of 1911 Harry Phelps committed suicide by consuming a legal dose of mercury in water. A probable cause was financial failures that piled up over the years. Harry received a generous inheritance from his fathers estate but squandered it over the years. Harry's father was at one  time the head of American Express in Indianapolis. (I have no further information on the father.)

Hoover Phelps Families 1901

Here is a picture from Thanksgiving of 1901 of the Hoover and Phelps families. Starting from the far right is Lilly Hoover.  Next to her in back is Kate (Bender) Hoover. Next to her in the foreground is Amy (Hoover) Phelps. Next to her is her husband Harry E. Phelps. Next to him is Perry Hoover. I have conflicting information on the man and woman next to Perry. It is not his brother Carey Hoover. It could be a Phelps relation or it could just be friends.

The Phelps

Harry E. Phelps, father of Lillian and husband of Amy Rose (Hoover) Phelps.

Amy Rose (Hoover) Phelps as a child.

An older Amy Phelps

Lillian Eunice (Phelps) Wilson Scrapbook Page 41

I believe the woman on the far right in the top left hand picture is Amy Phelps. She is in the middle top picture with an unknown woman and in the top far left picture with Aunt Lilly on the left and Lillian on the right. Lillian is in the bottom middle photo with another woman and two men. Lillian is in her bathing suit with a child in the bottom right photo. Photos are dated September 1924

Lillian Eunice (Phelps) Wilson Scrapbook Page 31

Lilly Hoover in the picture on the bottom, second from the right. The others I am uncertain of. One is of a man dated 1917. The top middle picture is of a woman at a house with the same address as a photo from a previous page. It could be Amy Phelps but I am not sure

Lillian Eunice (Phelps) Wilson Scrapbook Page 17

Top left photo is Ralph Phelps and 3 unknowns. Top right is Kate Bender, Perry Hoover, 3 unknowns and what might be Harry Phelps on the right in the cowboy hat. The woman with the horse on the bottom left is unknown. Te bottom right photo is from 1901 and is starting from the far right, Lilly Hoover, Kate Bender, Amy Phelps, Harry Phelps, Perry Hoover and I think it is Cary Hoover and maybe his wife or another woman. I have conflicting information on two copies of this photo. The other photos have no dates

Funeral Notes For Amy Rose Phelps

Following are 2 pages of notes made for the Amy Rose Phelps Funeral

Harry E. Phelps & Amy Rose (Hoover) Phelps

Amy Rose Phelps

Harry E. Phelps

Another page from Lillian's scrapbook. This one contains a newspaper article dated March 5, 1910, concerning the suicide of her father, Harry. E. Phelps. Also on this page is a small obit for her mother Amy Ros Phelps, and a picture showing her brother Ralph Phelps.