CROSS CO, AR - ANDERSON PHILLIPS - Bio

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SOURCE:  Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern 
Arkansas. Chicago:Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.
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     Anderson Phillips, one of the prominent colored farmers in Searcy
Township, was born a slave of David H. Walker, of Carroll County, Mo., in
1843.  His father, Carter Phillips, died in 1889.  His mother at last accounts
was in Nebraska.  Mr. Walker had crossed the plains with his slaves, and left
the mother of our subject in the West, and she never returned.  After the
Emancipation Proclamation, Anderson Phillips came north and joined the Federal
army, and served until October, 1865, when he received his discharge, then
coming to Phillips County, Ark., where he remained seven years.  In 1874 he
bought his present property, consisting of 240 acres in Cross County.  He
first purchased 660 acres, but has given a portion to his children, and now
has 180 acres under cultivation.  Mr. Phillips was married first in 1866 to
Charlotte Smith, who died in 1874, leaving three children: G. A., James H. and
Glenn A. (wife of Jeff Ham, a resident of this county).  His second marriage
was to Alice Ham (who was killed in a railroad accident in 1879).  They became
the parents of four children, all of whom are deceased.  Mr. Phillips' present
wife was formerly Martha E. Davis, whom he married in 1880.  They have one boy,
Anderson.  Mr. and Mrs. Phillips are members of the Independent Order of the
Immaculate, and are connected with the Baptist Church.  The former is a strong
Republican, and takes an active part in politics, having held the office of 
coroner of the county two times.