SCHLEY COUNTY, GA - BIOS  Hardy H. Phillips

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Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., page 822
Published by The Southern Historical Association in 1895


SCHLEY COUNTY

Hardy H. Phillips, planter, Schley county, Ga., was born in
Randolph county, Ga., Dec. 10, 1850.  His grandfather, Elijah
Phillips, was an early settler of Georgia, a practical farmer,
a soldier in the patriot army during the revolutionary war, and
a Primitive Baptist minister.  His father, Trussa Phillips, was
a plain, hard-working farmer in Randolph county, but moved to
Macon county, where, when Mr. Phillips was only six years old,
both parents died.  He was then bound out to Capt. Kinsey, from
whom he received such harsh treatment that, when fourteen years
old, he ran away from him and came to Schley county.  Here he
hired himself out for a year under an agreement that he was to
work a portion of the year and go to school the remainder.  The
next year he went to work at the carpenter’s trade, and
continued at it until he married.  Mr. Phillips was married
Dec. 14, 1871, to Julia Ann, daughter of G.W. Marshall, a
planter of Schley county.  He and his wife then began life on a
rented farm.  By constant work and close economy they made and
saved up by 1881 money enough to buy the fine 400 acre farm
which has since been their home.  Of the children born to them
there are living: Jane, Rebecca, Eliza, George and Trussa.  Mr.
Phillips and his wife are devoted Christians, and for the last
three years Mr. Phillips has been in the ministry.  He is a
useful and highly esteemed member of the community in which he
lives.