U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Phillips, Samuel Elliott (1832-1923) ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Page 436 Samuel Elliott Phillips, born in Randolph County, 1832, son of Eli and Mary (Kittle) Phillips, was married November 9, 1854, near Meadowville, to Sarah, daughter of James L. and Prudence (Phillips) Yeager. Children, Prudence, Elam H., Cordelia, Naomi, Louisa A., Irvin, Rebecca, Octava, Virginia J. and Joshua Corder, who was born December 15, 1875 and died April 20, 1899. He is a Democrat and a farmer, living on Glady Creek, where he owns 96 acres, nearly all improved, and partly underlaid with a three-foot vein of coal. There is an excavation and a ruin on his land which have been supposed to be traces of a furnace. It has been attributed to Indians. It should be borne in mind, however, that Indians were unacquainted with the process of smelting ores, and mined nothing except native copper, which they could hammer into shape. Therefore, if the ruin really was a furnace, it was probably made by the first white settlers, and the circumstances of its building have been forgotten. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Barbour County, WV #1773 FULL-NAME: Samiel E. Phillips BIRTH-DATE: April 16, 1832 BIRTH-PLACE: Barbour County, WV DEATH-DATE: February 8, 1923 DEATH-PLACE: Glade District, Barbour County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: (not recorded) OCCUPATION: Farmer FATHER: Eli Phillips (born in Barbour County) MOTHER: Mary Kilty Phillips (born in Barbour County) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Pneumonia fever INFORMANT: Virginia J. Butcher of Belington R#4 BURIAL: Little Bethel ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Barbour County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/barbour/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------