Nansemond-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Phillips, Dr. John E., 1919 

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DR. JOHN EDWIN PHILLIPS 

DR. JOHN E. PHILLIPS DIES IN NORFOLK 

Suffolk's Pioneer Physician Succumbs To Long Illness 

  Suffolk, May 31. - Dr. John Edwin Phillips, Suffolk's pioneer physician and 
one of the best loved and most prominent medical men in this section, died 
this morning at Protestant hospital, Norfolk, after many months' feeble 
health. 

  Dr. Phillips was a native of Isle of Wight county, and was the son of the 
late Dr. John Phillips of that county, who was in his day one of the most 
widely known doctors of this section. 

  Dr. Phillips practiced medicine in Suffolk since the late 80's and was a 
type of the family physicians who served one generation after another. 

  He was twice married, his first wife being Miss Lucy Walker, and the second 
wife, who died some years ago, Miss Eliza Causey, of this city. 
He is survived by two sons, John Temple Phillips and William Causey Phillips 
and two grandchildren, John Temple Phillips, Jr., and Virginia Curtis 
Phillips; three sisters, Miss Carrie Phillips, and Mrs. George Seymour, of New 
York, and Mrs. Charles Vick, of Kinston, N.C.; three brothers, Jackson 
Phillips and Percy Phillips, of Suffolk, and Jasper J. Phillips, of Jackson, 
Miss.  Besides these near relatives, Dr. Phillips is survived by a large 
number of cousins and other kinspeople in Nansemond, Isle of Wight and 
Southampton counties. 

  He was in his 64th year at the time of his death.  He was a member of the 
Southside Medical Society, and of other medical societies, and had been for 
years a member of the official board of the Main Street M.E. church, to whose 
interests he was devoted. 

  He kept his interest in local and national affairs until the week of his 
death, and watched the progress of the great war with a keen enthusiasm, 
having in this war a young son, William Phillips, a member of the Rainbow 
division.  He was also a member of the staff of the Virginia hospital of this 
city. 

  The funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock at the Main 
Street M.E. church and will be conducted by Rev. J. Arthur Winn. 

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DR. JOHN EDWIN PHILLIPS 

   SUFFOLK, June 1 - The funeral services of the late Dr. John Edwin Phillips, 
who died yesterday at the Protestant hospital, were held this afternoon in the 
presence of a great congregation of friends and relatives at the Main Street 
M.E. Church, conducted by Rev. J. Arthur Winn, assisted by Rev. J.F. Coleman.

   The pallbearers were all members of the family of the deceased; Eugene and 
A.H. Hargrave, C.C. Phillips, Sidney Ellis, James R. Jordan, T.B. Wright, Dr. 
P.P. Causey, Dr. E.F. Corbell.  Appropriate hymns were rendered by the choir 
of the Main Street M.E. church.  Interment was made in Cedar Hill Cemetery.


Dr. John Edwin PHILLIPS, 
b. 16 Sep 1856, Isle of Wight Co., d. 30 May 1919, Norfolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block F, Lot 49), Suffolk, 
"Virginian-Pilot and Norfolk Landmark," June 1, 1919, 
   clipping posted with Find a Grave Memorial #84430675, 
   by MemoriesofM; 
donated obit, publication unknown 

*Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County 
   Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_p.txt 

A photo of his gravestone - added by Jake Dog - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #84430675. 

D.Cert. 14635 (Norfolk #930) 

The obits ("Times-Dispatch" & "Norfolk Landmark," Apr. 11, 1905) 
   of his second wife Eliza are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/p412e1ob.txt 


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