Bio: Isaiah Phipps, Claiborne Parish, LA
Source:  Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez

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Isaiah Phipps is a practical farmer, one who believes that it is beneficial 
to have all his farming operations conducted in a manner so thorough as to 
not slight one department of labor in order to bestow more work on some other 
portion.  He was born in Perry County, Ala., December 9, 1820, to John Phipps, 
who was born, reared and married in Georgia, the last event being to Miss Mary 
Ann Crenshaw, a Georgian also.  They emigrated to Alabama after their marriage, 
where the father was an active and fairly successful tiller of the soil until 
his death, which took place about 1842.  He was a soldier in the Creek War, and 
was afterward captain of a company of militia.  His widow survived him until 
1880, when she passed from life in this State.  Isaiah Phipps grew to manhood 
in Alabama, marrying there, at the age of nineteen years, Miss Mary Veazey, an 
Alabamian by birth, and in that State they continued to reside and farm for a 
number of years, removing to Louisiana in the fall of 1853 and locating in this 
parish on a farm.  He purchased a fine plantation, and with the aid of a number 
of slaves which he possessed he opened the greater portion of this large plantation.  
Although he lost his slaves during the war he has been successful, and is now 
the owner of 1,600 acres of land, all in one body, about 800 of which is open 
land.  He raises from fifty to ninety bales of cotton annually, but the most of 
his cultivated land he rents out.  In 1862 he enlisted in Col. McNeil's regiment, 
and served until the war was over, being a participant in several important 
engagements in Louisiana and Arkansas, returning at the close of the war to his 
home.  He has always supported the measures of Democracy, and has taken an active 
part in the political campaigns of his parish.  In 1875 his wife died, leaving a 
family of ten children, all of whom are now living with the exception of two.  
In 1878 Mr. Phipps wedded Mrs. Margaret Oakes, an Alabamian.  She has three children, 
who are now grown, by her former husband.  Mr. Phipps and his wife are members of 
the Baptist Church, and he belongs to the Masonic fraternity.