~ DAVID PHILLIPS ~ 1766 - 1843 ~
Husband of Anna Goodwin
Son of Mercy Phillips and Philip Phillips

Memorial
Submitted by Dorothy Phillips
Excerpt By Dorothy Phillips

A Phillips history taken from "French Creek Presbyterian Church" by Lois M. Pinnell.

David Phillips

David was ordained 3rd Elder of the church and was born in Mass. as was his wife, Anna Goodwin Phillips. She was the widow of a young Revolutionary War Officer, whose people lived in Canada, and she and her daughter lived with them. She became so homesick that she left her daughter with her husband's people and went home to Mass. She never saw her daughter again.

David was the son of Philip Phillips and Mercy Phillips (Phillips). His parents were third cousins. He had six sons who were:

William, who lived in French Creek, beyond the mouth of Kettle Run. He married Mehitable Gould, the daughter of Aaron Gould and Lydia Gray Gould.
Richard, who married Eliza Perry, the daughter of Elias Perry Sr. Richard  lived almost directly across the creek from his brother William.
Ebeneser Phillips married Catherine Louden and lived on Laurel Fork, not far from were the road turns from Waterloo Road Fork.
Uriah married Mary Young, the daughter of Gilbert and Amarylis Barrett Young,  and lived (I think) about where Albert and Cora Yeager now live.
Horace married Susan Cutright and lived in the area of Indian Camp John lived a short distance up Laurel Fork and seems to have been the one who owned and operated "Phillips Mill". He was married twice. His first wife wasHarriet Bosworth by whom he had one child. His second wife was Eva Haddock, who was the mother of two children.

David Phillips first settled on what is now the Darnall farm. His house was  down the hill on Bush Run. When he too, had trouble about his land title, he chose to accept payment for his improvements on unimproved land, and moved down French Creek, apparently to the farm on which his son Richard later lived. A great pear tree, evidently one of the ones which the pioneers had carried across the mountains with them, stands to mark the spot where he lived.

David was ordained Elder on May 17 1923 and was choir leader, following Jonathon Alden.

This was taken from a book "FRENCH CREEK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH" By Lois Pinnel.

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