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, Walter (1834-1905) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Upshur County West Virginia From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by W. B. Cutright Buckhannon, W. Va., July 1, 1907 Pages 532-533 WALTER PHILLIPS, son of Richard and Eliza (Perry) Phillips, grandson of David Phillips, emigrant from Massachusetts. Born September 16, 1834, at French Creek. Raised on a farm to which vocation he was greatly devoted and pursued more or less throughout his life. Was educated in the schools of his community, where his parents lived, and in young manhood took up Cabinet making and house building for a livelihood, which pursuit he followed until the outbreak of the Civil War, when he enlisted with Company E. Third West Virginia Infantry under Captain S. B. Phillips, and remained with that Company until 1863, when on account of bad health he resigned and returned home. Soon his health became better and he raised the Company of State Militia, and was Captain of the same. For twenty-five years after the ending of the war, he was energetically engaged in the mercantile business at French Creek, he succeeded eminently and amassed a fortune, which served him well in his last days. In 1888 he was elected sheriff of Upshur County, in 1893 he moved to Buckhannon where he lived until his death, December 19, 1905. He was married to Hannah V. Shobe, daughter of John and Nancy (Douglas) Shobe, December 25, 1861, by Rev. John W. Carter. John W. Shobe, his wife's father, was born 1808, and died in 1869, being killed accidently while filing a saw in his mill at French Creek. Children: Parley V., Dr. of Medicine, married Minnie Carper, one child, Walter; Lelah, wife of Dr. G. O. Brown; Hazen W., single; Virgie, wife of Horace Withers. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Upshur County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/upshur/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------