Biography of Lewis B. Phillips, Franklin Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed
Publishing Co., 1889.

Lewis B. Phillips. Prominent among the leading men of Hogan Township,
and among those deserving special recognition for their long residence
in the county, stands the name of Lewis B. Phillips, who was born in
Georgia, in either Henry or Carroll County, January 15, 1823, and is
the son of William and Mary (Spinks) Phillips, natives of North
Carolina and Georgia, respectively. William Phillips came to Arkansas
when Lewis Phillips was a young man, and nothing further was ever
heard of him. He was a farmer by occupation. The mother made her home
with her children, and died in 1880 at the age of eighty-seven years.
She was a member of the Protestant Methodist Church. The Phillips
family came from Georgia to Alabama, and remained there for several
years. When the father came to Arkansas the family remained in
Alabama. Lewis B. Phillips was the fifth of ten children. He received
his education in Alabama, and during the Florida War, in 1836, he
belonged to Capt. J. M. Carter's company, Second Alabama Mounted
Volunteers, and served six months. In 1856 he left Alabama, and came
to Franklin County, Ark., where he has since resided, and where he has
followed agricultural pursuits. He was in the Confederate service a
short time, when he was taken prisoner, and retained at Leavenworth,
Kas., and Camp Douglas, Chicago, in all about one year. February 18,
1844, he married Miss Nancy McDuffe, a daughter of Angus McDuffee, who
was born in North Carolina, and who immigrated to Tennessee, and from
there to Alabama. She was born in Roane County, Tenn., December, 26,
1825, and eight children were the result of her union, five now
living: Mary, widow of William Patton; William C.; Caldonia, wife of
Rev. C. S. Jones; Martha J., wife of T. J. Brown; Virginia, wife of O.
B. Donaldson. Those deceased were named John, Sarah Ann and Nancy P.
Mr. Phillips is a Republican in politics, was for several years
justice of peace, and one term postmaster at Altus. He was engaged in
mercantile pursuits for two years at Altus. He and wife are members of
the Methodist Episcopal Church.