Clay County AlArchives Obituaries.....Phillips, James June 8, 1876
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Our Mountain Home 
Died, on the 9th of June at the residence of his son, Zachariah Phillips in Clay 
County. Mr. James Phillips aged eighty-two years, Mr. Phillips was a native pf 
Morgan County, Georgia. He immigrated in 1834 to Coosa County, in this State 
where he resided till recently, he came to this County and lived with his son. 
The subject of this memoir was a soldier in the yar of 1812 with Great Britain. 
He served with distinction as a private under General Floyd, He was an honest, 
brave man the "noblest work of God." After the close of the war, Mr. Phillips 
returned to his home in Morgan County, Ga., and followed the peaceful occupation 
of agriculture. Though Mr. Phillips never embraced religion, he was a charitable 
man, if he heard of a calamity or misfortune in his neighborhood, James Phillips 
was the first to come to the aid of suffering humanity with all the means he 
could command.

Additional Comments:
Zachariah Phillips is buried at Bethlehem Cemetery Clay County. The location of 
his father's grave is unknown. 

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