By the year 1870, Samuel Walter Phelps was living in Missouri,  moved there the same time his brother Fountain Turner Phelps and wife Henrietta Wright  with their two sons Loren and Grant. 

1870 census Prairie, Schuyler Co., Missouri  

Phelps, Fountain T.  age 34  Ill.  Grocer Retail  Henrieta  age 32 Ill. Lorin E.  age 11 Ill.  Ulysses G.  age 6 Ill.   Clark, Lawrence  age  32  New York  Station hand RR  Phelps, Samuel  age 25  Ill.  Farmer

 Fountain Turner Phelps died in 1871 and in 1873, Samuel Walter Phelps married Henrietta and raised the two boys.  Sometime before 1894, Henrietta died and Samuel at the age of 49 married Rosa Senteniel  Alward, age 18 and started his own family.

1880 census Green top, Schuyler Co., Missouri List

Phelps, Samuel  age 36  Ill.  Henrietta  age  40  Ill.  Loren  age 21  Ill.  Grant  age 16  Ill.

  Samuel Walter Phelps  about 20 years old circa 1865

  Samuel Walter Phelps  about 30 years old circa 1875

                               Husband       Samuel Walter Phelps

                                   Date born      May 21, 1845 

                             Ashmore Twp., Coles County, Illinois

                                   Died         October 1, 1927 

                               Jennings, Pawnee County, Oklahoma  

                                       buried  Manford, Oklahoma

                             Wife #1      Henrietta (Wright )(Phelps) Phelps

                                  Date born                  1835

                                  Died    before  1894

     Marriage date    March 11, 1873  in  Adair County, Missouri http://www.rootsweb.com/~moadair/adairmarr1800-2-P.htm 

Picture of Samuel Walter Phelps   about 65 years old   circa 1909       

Picture of Rosa Senteniel. Alward Phelps    about 34 years old      circa 1909

Picture  Rosa Senteniel Alward Phelps Anderson circa  1956               80 years old  

                          Wife #2   Rosa Senteniel Alward

                                 Date born        November 4, 1876

                               Lancaster, Schuyler County, Missouri

                                Died      February 13, 1962 

                         Morgan Hill, Santa Clara County, California  

                                buried in Manford, Oklahoma

                         Marriage date      January 31, 1894

                         Greentop, Schuyler County, Missouri

    Rosa Senteniel Alward Phelps  married 2nd  June 5, 1933 to Henry Anderson,       Picture of Henry  

                  Children                                        Date born

             Anna Eveline Phelps                     November 20, 1894

            Walter Miller Phelps                     September 30, 1896

            Joe Ben Phelps                                  August 18, 1898

            James Franklin Phelps                            July 14, 1901

            Mary Elizabeth Phelps                           April 14, 1905

            Samuel Thomas Phelps                           April 1, 1908

            Lee Samuel Phelps                              August 8, 1910

            Earl Jesse Phelps                                  May 26, 1913

            Murl Lesley Phelps                                 May 26, 1913

            Mildred Rosa Phelps                         October 23, 1919