Death of Anita Phelps Carroll (March 24, 1873)

(To increase the size, click on the picture then click again when the magnifying glass appears.) New York Times, March 27, 1873, p. 2. Anita Phelps was the daughter of Royal Phelps of New York City and the mother of eight children. The article identifies the youngest child as being 15, but that child was Mary Helen Carroll, born the day her mother died.