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, Moses (1830-1894) ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Tucker County, West Virginia From the Earliest Explorations and Settlements to the Present Time. by Hu Maxwell Kingwood, W. Va.; Preston Publishing Company, 1884. Page 470 Moses Phillips, son of Isaac Phillips, was born in Barbour County, January 19, 1830. When he was 16 he came to Tucker, and lived in a house that had no floor, door, chimney or window. A log was cut off, and the family crept in at this hole. In 1851 he married Lamira, daughter of William Phillips. Children: Marion J., Bede, Catharine, Barbara M., Columbia J., Melvina, Laura E., Abraham F., Adaline and M. C. Bernard. He owns a farm of 100 acres, 60 is cleared land, 5 miles from St. George, on Texas Mountain. He was eight years justice of the peace. During the war his sympathies leaned toward the South, and in McChesney's raid, Phillips was one of the fifty infantry that followed toward Hannahsville, but who did not arrive in time to take part in the fight. He saw the battle of Corrick's Ford, but was not in it. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Register of Deaths, Tucker County, WV (Page 7, Line No. 30) FULL-NAME: Moses S. Phillips DEATH-DATE: April 3, 1894 DEATH-PLACE: St. George, W.Va. CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Heart failure AGE-AT-DEATH: 64y-2m-3d MARITAL-STATUS: Married ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Tucker County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/tucker/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------