History of Union Grove Cemetery and Phillips Family - Upshur Co, TX ***************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net Director of the Computer Interest Group, ETGS 25 April 2002 ***************************************************************** Originally published in the East Texas Family Records, Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 1978 History of Union Grove Cemetery and Phillips Family Contributed by Murle K. Rhodes, P. O. Box 121. Columbus, TX 78934 The Union Grove Cemetery (formerly Phillips Cemetery) is situated in the H. H. Edwards survey, Upshur County, Texas. This cemetery was in the beginning a burial plot on Phillips for family members. A few of the markers of these original families buried in Union Grove Cemetery William Riley Phiilip, 1889-1938 William Marshall Phillips, 1859-~937 Georgia Belle Littlo Phillips. 1873-1896 Annie Lee Phillips Jenkins, 1894-1971 Sarah B. ~lings, 1862-1955 Mary Pearl Phillips, 1876-1955 James Riley Phillips, ]822-1862 Rebecca J. Mackev Phillips, 1836-1902 Joel Lewis Mackey, 1801-1855 Mary Fonville .Mackey, 1801-1858 As those ~ are interested in Union Grove Cemetery are also interested in Union Grove School, they are referred to the first few pages of "Union Grove Comman School District-1888-1955"., which states that "formal education began in Union Grove Commuinity in the year 1888, on a two-acre tract of land belonging to U. M. Phillips". (Book One, Page 598, Upshur County Deed Records). William Marshall Phillips was a civic minded man who counted among his ancestors the Lewis familv who gave the land for the University of Virginia. He was proud of Union Grove. Murle Phillips Rhodes February 9, 1978