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Phillips, James Marion (b. 1852)
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The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, 
From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time
by Hu Maxwell
The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899

Pages 436-437

James Marion Phillips, born 1852, near Meadowville, son of Simeon
and Susanna (Fitzwater) Phillips, was married March 14, 1876, to
Masalona, daughter of Isaac and Mary Coonts, and was married a
second time, November 1, 1890, at Philippi, to Evaline, daughter of
Daniel and Harriet (Kittle) Boyles. Children, Gilbert H., Dota
Susanna, Lummie Ruth, Burnett D., Erca May. He is a member of the
M. E. Church, South, is an Odd Fellow, a Democrat and a farmer,
living near Calhoun, where his farm of 120 acres is nearly all
improved. He introduced the variety of potatoes known as the Early
Harvest into Barbour. He was educated in the public schools. On his
father's side, his people were English and German; on his mother's
side his grandfather, John Fitzwater, was a native of Hardy County,
and came to Barbour at an early day.

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