Guernsey-Belmont-Noble County OhArchives Biographies.....Phillips, Jacob May 10, 1822 - May 1, 1867
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Source: Civil War Pension Application
Author: Nancy Blomgren

Jacob Phillips father died when he was young.  Amanda said there were six in 
his family.  He was "bound out" and went to live with the William Cowden family 
when he was 8 - 10 years old and stayed there until he was 17.  The Cowdens 
lived at Millwood Township, Guernsey County.  (This was near Quaker City)
At the Cowdens he did farm work and went to school winters. 
His occupation was a tenant farmer and hired hand.  Wm P. Hartley was living at 
Millwood Township Guernsey County when Jacob lived nearby and stated in the 
pension claim that Jacob split nails, cut oats and wheat and did other work for 
me by the day occasionally while he lived here for two years." "He and I cut 
oats together one day on my place and we tried to outdue each other down with 
the cradle but he held out."  He left before he went into the army, living in 
the area of Oxford Twp. Guernsey County Ohio in 1860.
Before his marriage to Maria Grayem,Jacob may have been married to Hannah 
Kelsey but she did not live long and they did not have any children.
Amanda said that her parents were married Aug. 13, 1842 at Freedom in Guernsey 
County by Rev. Leeper.  Present were Washington Grayem, Maria's brother and 
Wesley and Amy Phillips.  They were at Quaker City in Guernsey County 1848  
When the B & O Rail line was laid down, Jacob worked on the grading.  They were 
living on the Holtz place and then the Henderson place several years 2 or 3 
miles from Quaker City, Ohio.  They grew tobacco in this area and there was 
surface mining for coal.  The living conditions could not have been very nice 
with a family moving from place to place.
Linnie Lewis, widow of Jacob Lewis, and her daughter Martha gave statements 
that they lived in the same house with them on the Holt's place and they were 
present when one of the children were born.
March 10, 1860 Dr. Roman noted that Jacob Phillips owed $4 (this was birth of 
their youngest child, James Howard Phillips)
Jacob enlisted in the army at Middletown, Guernsey County Feb. 27,1862; was 
private in "K" 74th Ohio Infantry.  74th Regiment was commanded by Col. 
Granville Moody.
He mustered out on July 31, 1863 and came home sick.  
While he was in the service his family moved in with Nancy Grayem and her son 
William Jasper Graham and were on David Graham's farm and helped farm the 
Graham farm at Sarahsville, Noble Co., Ohio. The 74th Ohio went to Nashville 
and fought and Jacob was in the hospital there.
Oct. 13, 1863 Jacob was a resident of Enoch Township in Noble County when he 
gave a sworn statement for an application for pension.  He was examined Nov. 
15, 1863, and at that time the Examining Surgeon states that he finds him going 
into consumption and refers to his varicose veins and fistula in ano in terms 
that shows that he was at that date a great sufferer from these disabilities.  
Jacob Phillips states that at Camp Chase Ohio, the latter part of February or 
first of March 1862, he contracted a severe cold, affecting his lungs, and 
diarrhea which resulted in fistula of ano and asthma, and his veins were 
ruptured and was affected with general disability.  Jacob stated that before he 
was issued proper clothing he suffered from exposure at Camp Chase near 
Columbus Ohio and he was standing guard and drilling and contracted a severe 
cold. His daughter Amanda remembered that it was so cold at Camp Chase that her 
father's boots were froze and he had to thaw his boots before he could get them 
off.Jacob duty was guarding prisoners there.
Pension was not granted.  
George W. Phillips stated that after his father was discharged, he came back to 
Sarahville and "we lived on George Sweeny's farm." and "He was not able to work 
a day after he came out of the army."
The widow filed a claim for pension in 1881 alleging that soldier died of lung 
disease. Jacob Phillips suffered a great deal before his death May 1, 1867 at 
Mt. Olivet, Ohio. 
The family moved to Mt. Olivet (also called Chaneytown) in Belmont County where 
he lived three years before he died.  Thomas Moore had a store across the road 
and stated he helped take care of Jacob, along with others, and he was 
unconscious for 49 hours before his death and never took water or food during 
this time.
Maria's nephew, William Jasper Graham described him: "Dark complexion, not red 
and flishy looking, he had hair as dark as an Indian's and was very dark 
himself--he always wore his hair long and it hung down his shoulders like an 
Indian.  I think that he told me that he contracted his diarrhea at Camp Chase 
Ohio."  (Pension File)
Buried at Friend's cemetery, Barnsville, Ohio
Children:  Amanda, Sarah, John William, Lewis Jackson, George Washington, Isaac 
Wesley, Newell, Albert, and James Howard.


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