PHILLIPS
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Around 1870, two brothers,  William P. and  George Washington Phillips and their  
families from Henderson County, North Carolina, settled in the old Neely 
community near Dardanelle, Yell County Arkansas.
   
The brothers ran a cotton gin and in later years  William P. Phillips owned 80 acres of 
land which joined the Atwood 60 acres later sold to  John J. Cooper about 1884.

William P. Phillips b 1831 d 1882 m   Fannie Jane Beck b l838 d 1873 
        They had issue
                 Franklin S. Phillips                           b 1854  d 1855
                 Eliza Ruemma Phillips                  b 1856  d 1889    
                 Amanda G. Phillips                     b 1858  d 1877    
                 James B. Phillips                              b 1860  d 1875    
                 William Washington Phillips    b 1862  d 1947    
                 Perry G. Phillips                              b 1865  d 1869
                 Ora I. Phillips                                        b 1871  d 1871

The youngest child was born in Yell County.   Ruemma Phillips married in 1873  A. 
Berry Bagwell. They had four children,  William,  Georgie,  Dora and  Ebb, all  born In 
Yell County.   Amanda Phillips married in 1873  John P. Smith in Yell County.  Will 
Bagwell b 1875 d 1901.

 William Washington Phillips lived at home with his father after his mother's  death 
on May 14, 1873. His father,  William P., married   Henrietta Neely December 17,  1873. 
William P. died May 10, 1882. It is said that  W. Wash Phillips did not get on well with 
the stepmother so he took a team of gray horses and a gold watch  of his father's as his 
part of the estate and went to live with an old Negro slave,   Granny Flowers, who had 
moved to Arkansas with the Phillips. Wash married    Martha Jane Smith on January 
10, 1884.

Several members of the  William P. Phillips family are buried at Bata Mill cemetery.  
Fannie and  Emma Bagwell are known to be buried there. William P.  was buried at 
Brearley cemetery, Dardanelle, beside his wife,  Henrietta, who died March 7, 1914 at 
the age of 74.
   
 George Washington Phillips from Henderson, Sorth Carolina fought in the 
Confederate Army and was born about 1836. He died at the age of 60 in 1896.  His wife.  
Mary, was born March 6, 1838 and died January 8, 1858. They were buried in the 
Brearley cemetery, Dardanelle, in the west part of the cemetery.