And daughter Susanna Ann Phelps 's About says:
Mrs. R. A. Parks, a grand-daughter of the Felps, born in the year ______, remembers her grandmother, Susan, also does Mrs. Matt Dickey another grand-daughter - but neither remembers their grandfather. But Mrs. Dickey remembers being at a burying when quite small, but she can not say whether it was that of her grandfather, Brittain, or that of her Uncle John, a son of Brittain. Mrs. Park and Mrs. Dickey agree that their grandmother, Susan was very old when they first remember her, and that she died before the beginning of the Civil War. They describe her as a stockily built woman, low of statue, blue eyed and of fair complexion; that her hair was very thin and white, but that they have always understood that the natural color of her hair was sandy or reddish. She was thoroughly Dutch, and had Dutch Bible, from which she would sometimes read. She was born in North Carolina, during the Revolutionary War. Mrs. Parks says has been her understanding.
Susan (Waggoner) Felps survived her husband Brittain Felps some 10 or 12 years. Mrs. Matt Dickey Mrs. Parks remember her well, she always wore a fine lace cap and carried a large bunch of keys tied to her waist band. She owned many negro slaves, most of whom had grown old with the family, and she looked after the management of the large farm on Mulberry Creek which Brittain Felps owned when he died. She spoke English with an accent, and would often complain about the black sticky mud of this section saying she was raised in a sandy country where there was no muck.
Mrs. Dickey and Mrs. Parks remember one of these old slaves, his name was Jake, and he was regarded as a very mean negro, while back in North Carolina this negro slave became involved in an insurrectionary plot among the slaves, was detected in the plot, in a raid made on the slaves, a box of soldiers trapping, consisting of swords and a uniform, was found in this negro’s possession. He was tried and convicted, and sentenced to undergo a severe whipping. He was then brought to Tenn. by Brittain Felps, but was always regarded as a mean and dangerous negro.
Susan would often relate things that happened in her North Carolina home during this war. One of which was that when the "Tory" army was passing, her home, one of the army stragglers, a woman, left a child with the family which was kept and raised by them, being named Joe.
