Anderson County, Texas - News: Palestine, Texas, 1887 ---------------------------------------------------------- Submitted by: Don R Brownlee USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ---------------------------------------------------------- 21 June 1887 Dallas Morning News, p. 2 Sudden Death of a Gifted Young Lady PALESTINE, Tex., June 20 - The sad intelligence was dispatched here last night of the sudden death yesterday at Wootan Wells of Miss Minnie Phillips, daughter of Rev. H. B. Phillips of this city, at the age of 18 years. She was born and reared in this city, educated here and graduated at the University at Georgetown. A few days before her death she had been elected one of the teachers in the public school of Greenville, Tex. She will be interred here tomorrow.