Lucius M. Phelps, of the well-known song and dance team of Stiles and Phelps, also Armstrong, Stiles and Phelps, had been out of the profession about four years prior to his death, which occurred in Springfield, Mass., about August, 1876.
He had been with Unsworth’s Minstrels in 1871; Moran and Dixey’s in 1872, and also with the companies of Skiff and Gaylord, Carncross and Dixey, and Hooley’s.
Ned Fox was a brother of Jim Fox, of Goss and Fox, and was very well known during his comparatively brief career, as a comedian of more than ordinary merit.
After his death, the following lines by Billy Devere, were dedicated to his (Fox’s) widow:
“Another old-timer gone they said.
As I came to the green-room door to-night;
Another “old pard” has passed away
To that beauteous land of joy and light—
Buoyed aloft by a Saviour’s love,
Searching the home of the good and true