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The Resting Places of the Phillips Family. Mr. Hiram Phillips, a wealthy and re tired member of this old and well-known family, who is now a resident of Middle town, has just had removed from the old burying ground at Phillipsburgh to the new incorporated cemetery adjoining, the bodies of his father and mother, George and Mary Phillips, who died about 1840, at the ages of 80; also of his former wife who died in 1859, also his brother Edward Phillips and his wife who died some years ago. The lot in which their remains were reinterred lies alongside the lot to which Mr. Wm. N. Phillips, of Chicago, a few years ago re moved from the old ground the bodies of his grandfather and grandmother Moses and Sarah Phillips, who died about 1818, of his father and mother, Wm. and Sa rah Phillips, and of his uncle Henry Wisner Phillips and his two wives. The last named gentleman, although dying at the age of only forty, was one of the best known of the family, and was a commercial man who owned ships on many a sea, and who lost heavily in the war of 1812. He died at Mount Hope, N. J., but his remains were brought to his old home for burial. There are lying still in the old grounds the bodies of Dr. G. N. Phillips and wife and of Mr. Henry W. Phillips, but these are also to be removed, we understand, either to the new cemetery or to Hillside Cemetery. Gabriel Phillips is another of the older members of the Phillips family whose remains lie at Phillipsburgh, and over them is a handsome monument. Two brothers of the second generation, Moses and Lewis Phillips, the latter of whom was a partner of Henry W., were buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
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Middletown Daily Press
Middletown, New York, US
Thu, Oct 03, 1878
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