Biographical Sketch of William Phillips, Laclede County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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William Phillips was born in McMinn county, Tenn., in 1836, and is a 
son of Robert and Nancy Phillips, who were born in Tennessee, and were 
of Dutch and Irish descent.  They moved to Laclede county, Mo., in 1849
and entered 160 acres of land on Brush Creek, afterward purchasing 100
acres of land on Osage Fork of the Gasconade River.  Here they were
engaged in farming until 1857, when they went to Jefferson County, Ill.
and after farming for some time the father engaged in the mercantile
business, and died in 1873.  Eleven children were born to their union,
William Phillips being their eighth child.  He was reared and educated
in Tennessee and Missouri, and in January, 1861, was married to Nancy 
J. Hemphill, of North Carolina, a daughter of Alfred and Maria Hemphill
who were natives of North Carolina, where the father died.  The mother
is now residing in Missouri.  To Mr. and Mrs. Phillips six children
have been born, only two of whom are living: Nancy, wife of Philip
Owens, and James Monroe, who resides with his parents.  The family 
attends the Baptist church, and Mr. Phillips is a member of the Agri-
cultural Wheel, and in his political views is a Democrat.  His first
purchase of land was eighty acres where he now lives.

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