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Welcome to Phelps
County Missouri Genealogy Research
Houston Hotel in Newburg circa
1890
My name is Bob
Jenkins and I created this
website to provide genealogy
information and links to genealogy
information to assist people in
researching
their Phelps County Missouri
ancestors.
I would appreciate any
contribution that you would like to
make to this site:
biographies, obituaries, birth,
marriage, death info, grave info,
photographs....etc
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Use the box below to
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for Phelps
County Data
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Brief
History:
Phelps County is a county
located in the central portion of the U.S.
state of Missouri. The county was
officially
organized on November 13, 1857, and
was named after U.S. Representative and
Governor of Missouri John Smith
Phelps.
The first Phelps County Court
convened on November 25, 1857 in the John
Dillon cabin. The historic courthouse
was begun in mid-summer of 1860,
used as a Union hospital during the
American Civil War and served as the
courthouse until February 1994, at
which time all county offices were
relocated in the new Phelps County
Courthouse. The new courthouse was
dedicated on May 22, 1994.
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