Is there a Genealogical Society or Historical Society for Boone County and how to contact
them would be appreciated. I am looking for a grave of Philomen Phillips who died at the
home of his daughter Julia (Phillips) Hulsizer about 1872. See the story below. I think it
might be close to Zionsville, as this family lived in Northern Hendricks County.
THE FOLLOWING IS A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE. IT APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN IN THE BROWNSBURG NEWSPAPER
IN THE FALL OF 1914:
PHILLIPS REUNION
The Descendants of Philemon Phillips and Alexander Wilson Met Sunday
The Phillips reunion was held at the home of Milton Phillips in Indianapolis Sunday,
August 30th. The day being an ideal one the relatives with beaming faces from all
directions to the number of 53 had gathered. Milt and Emma had looked forward to this day
for almost a year and so had everything in tip top order having stretched a large canvas
in the yard. Under this stood a long table groaning with all the good things which were
possible to cook and there was fried chicken and then more fried chicken which the hungry
crowd did certainly enjoy. After eating of the good things to their hears content, Milt
opened a big freezer of ice cream and it is needless to say what happened then.
Those present were: S.M. Phillips of Victor, Colorado, Harry Phillips and wife, Charles
Phillips, James Barnes, wife and daughter of Scott country, Alfred Stout of Dupont, Wood
and Paul Phillips, and Julia Ogdon and children of Columbus, James and Clarence Phillips
and their families of Brown township, Mellvile Phillips and wife, John Waters and wife, Ed
Watts and wife of Pittsboro, Iva Bell and daughter, Samuel Amick and wife, of Brownsburg,
F.B. Hopkins and family of Clayton, George Peak, wife and son Raymond, Almet Wilson,
Albert Wilstec and family, Omer Delong and family and Charles Tinsley and family.
After the dinner hour the time was spent in music, singing and a general good time. Mrs.
Samuel Amick read an interesting paper which she had prepared on the descendants of the
Wilson and Phillips families, which will publish in next week's issue for the benefit
of those who were not present. The crowd then began to leave for their respective homes
hoping to meet again a year from that day at the tome of Ed Watts in [rest of article is
missing].
THE FOLLOWING IS A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE THAT APPEARED IN THE BROWNSBURG NEWSPAPER IN THE FALL
OF 1914:
The Brownsburg Newspaper
FAMILY HISTORY
The following is a history of the Phillips family which was delivered at the reunion,
August 30, 1914.
WILSON DESCENDENTS
Alexander Wilson's father was brought from Ireland when quite a small boy, he being
picked up by sailors in the old country, and brought to America and sold for his fare
across the water. Of him, we are unable to give any further account. Only that his son,
Alexander Wilson, married Mary Dixon, and lived in North Carolina in the early pioneer
days. Coming from there to Kentucky in the year 1804, they crossed the Ohio River, coming
to Madison, Indiana. There was just one house and a blacksmith shop in Madison at that
time. To this union, eleven children were born, whose names are as follows: Nellie,
Julia, Robert, John, Martha, Elizabeth, Mary, Margarette, Nancy, Moses, and Susan. They
came from Madison to Jennings County, four miles from Dupont, where he entered 160 acres
of land where he lived till his death. In the early days, he would take his family and go
to a fort several miles away built as a protection from the Indians.
Phillips Descendants
Philemon Phillips and Rachel Ballard were married in North Carolina, in the early days
about the year 1808. They came from North Carolina to Kentucky on horse back, and from
there to Indiana. They having at that time three small boys, Thomas, the eldest; Media;
and Philemon, Jr., who was four years old at that time.
They made the trip through the new country on horse-back bringing two horses, two feather
beds and three children. Philemon and Rachel, came to Indiana, and settled in Jennings
County, near Paris. The children of Philemon and Rachel Phillips were Thomas, Media,
Philemon Jr., Verlinda, Hester, Rachel, Washington and Julia.
They endured many hardships in the early pioneer days. At one time Rachel, his wife,
killed a deer with an ax and dressed it while her husband was away. At another time while
he was away the wife and children found a bear up a tree near the house and minded it
there until the father came home and killed it.
Julia, now well known to us as Aunt Julia Hulsizer, then only a small child, her mother
carried on her shoulder as they would go back and forth trying to mind the bear till her
father came would look back and say "Run, Mamma, the Booge, is coming."
Philemon's wife dying in Jennings County, he married Nancy Wilson and moved from there
to Hendricks County, about four miles north of Brownsburg, on a farm where Nancy, his
wife, died. Philemon living to be quite an old man died at the home of his daughter,
Julia Hulsizer in Boone County.
Thomas Phillips, eldest son of Philemon and Rachel Phillips, was married to Susan Wilson
and lived six miles from Paris, Jennings County. To this union eleven children were born:
Newton, James, Wood, Loucinda, Susan, Rachael, Martha, Melville, Thomas, Milton, and
Daniel. Thomas, the father, died October 30th, 1851, age 41 years and 14 days, leaving
Susan, his wife with ten small children. She endured many hardships raising her family
alone and when the war broke out three of her sons enlisted in the war: Wood, Thomas, and
Melville.
In the Spring of 1864 Thomas came home on a sick furlough and died March 9th, 1864, age 17
yrs., 8 mos. and 8 d. Lucinda and Rachel, both married and away from home came at this
time to see their brother who was stricken down with spotted fever. They also were
stricken down with the same dreadful disease and died; Rachel leaving a small child,
Lucinda leaving four small children. When the war was over Wood came home and lived with
his mother and took care of her, they moving in a few years to Hendricks County, where she
died July 31, 1891. She was born July 15, 1815, making her age 76 years and 16 days. Her
troubles and afflictions were great having been a cripple for some years, but she was
patient through it all, always expressing her faith in her blessed Savior and as always
leaning on his blessed promises. Of her eleven children, six are living, five are with us
today. They are Newton, of Scott County; James and Melville, of Hendricks County; Wood,
of Columbus, Ind.; Susan Peak and Milton Phillips of Indianapolis. Newton who is nearing
his 80th year was too feeble to make the trip.
THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPHS (author believed to be Iola Phillips, granddaughter of Walter G.
Phillips) WERE ADDED TO THE TYPEWRITTEN VERSION OF THE ABOVE ARTICLE, SENT TO WALTER G.
PHILLIPS, TUSCOLA, ILLINOIS ON FEBRUARY 27, 1936:
Washington Phillips, youngest son of Philemon and Rachel Phillips, married Isabelle
Lawhead, and they lived in Indiana. They moved to the southern part of Illinois. To this
union five children were born: John, David, Thomas, Alvy, and Walter. [SIC: They also
had two daughters: Elizabeth and Ida.]
Walter Phillips, youngest son of Washington and Isabelle Phillips, won a teacher's
certificate at the age of 18. In 1891 he came to Douglas County and worked on a farm for
R.C. Macy, former prominent local resident who now lives in California. He married Jennie
Rees in 1894. To this union four children were born: Adrian, Clell, Pearl, and Emma. He
continued to return to Jasper County to teach during the winter school term.
Later he worked for eight years for C.R. Lewis, drainage boat operator. He then farmed
for a time on the farm of the late Edward Owen near Macedonia, which is located on the
mail route he was later to cover. From the farm he went into the mail service in 1915.
For four years he carried the mail on rural route 4 and was then transferred to route 3,
which he has carried ever since, until he reached the retirement age of 65 last year.
His daughter, Mrs. Pearl Crowdes, has kept house for him since the death of his wife eight
years ago. Another daughter, Miss Emma, is a supervising nurse at the Burnham hospital in
Champaign. The two sons, Adrian and Clell are engaged in farming west of Hayes. He has
seven grandchildren.
Mike Phillips
Lee's Summit, Missouri
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