Phillips:

 

John Samuel Phillips was born 15 Feb. 1776, in Pennsylvania [2], and married Sally (Salome) (Sarah?) Sides (Seitz?). Sally (Salome) was born 16 Sept. 1775 [2], in North Carolina; she died 17 Aug. 1851, and is buried here, in the (Old) Pleasant Hill Methodist Cemetery. Their marriage bans were announced at Friedland, North Carolina, 4 May 1794 [2].

 

Their daughter, Sarah (Salome) Phillips, was born 29 Sept. 1815, in North Carolina, and she married Elias Grimes in 1843; Elias and Sarah (Phillips) Grimes buried two young daughters in (Old) Pleasant Hill Methodist cemetery (see Grimes section, above).

 

Their son, Samuel Phillips, was born 19 May 1808, in Stokes County, North Carolina [2], and married Rachel Newman, who was born 16 Mar. 1818, in Randolph County, North Carolina. Samuel Phillips died in 1880, and his wife Rachel (Newman) Phillips died in 1901; they are both buried in the Amo Cemetery [2] [5b].

 

Samuel Phillips and Rachel (Newman) Phillips had eight children, including

1. Jonathan Franklin Phillips, b.16 Apr.1840, in Clay Township, and married Makina Couch;

2. Susanna(h) Elizabeth Phillips, b.11 Nov. 1841, married Enoch Harlan (1838-1918) on 5 May 1867, in Hendricks County (see Harlan section, above);

3. Lewis A. (Albert? Lewis) Phillips, b.1843-1844, married Rosalie Masten;

4. Samuel Elwood Phillips, born 17 Feb. 1850 [buried in (Old) Pleasant Hill Methodist Cemetery];

5. Sallie Marie Phillips, b.ca.1851-1852 (after the 1850 census), married William Shirley;

6. John Nelson Phillips, b.ca.1854-1855, married Joanna Ratcliff;

7. Oliver Perry (“O.P.”) Phillips, b.28 Oct. 1858, married Addie Julia O’Neal, 3 Dec. 1890; and

8. Emory Ellsworth Phillips, b.1863, married Rosella Justice; Emory and Rosella are the parents of Holiday Chauncey Phillips (1894-1983) [see Note 1, “Phillips Estate” papers, and Appendix 1].

 

John Samuel Phillips (b.1776) died in Wayne County, Indiana, before 1836 [40]; the rest of the family, including his widow Sarah (Sally/Salome Sides/Seitz) Phillips, can be found together in the 1850 census, enumerated on 28 Aug. 1850, in Clay Township, Hendricks County [52]:

 

Samuel Philips

35

North Carolina

[1814-1815]

[sic, Philips, one ‘l’ on census]

Rachel

30

Ditto [N.C.]

[1819-1820]

[Rachel Newman]

Jonathan

12

Indiana

[1837-1838]

[Jonathan Franklin Phillips]

Susanna

10

Ditto [Indiana]

[1839-1840]

[Susan, wife of Enoch Harlan]

Lewis

6

Ditto [Indiana]

[1843-1844]

 

Samuel E.

8/12

Ditto [Indiana]

[born 1849]

[died 1851, buried Pleasant Hill]

Sarah Philips

75

North Carolina

[born 1775]

[died 1851, buried Pleasant Hill]

 

 

“Old Pleasant Hill Methodist Cemetery”, Copyright 2003, by Frank McAninch       page 36 of 68

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