ELIJAH PHILLIPS ~ 1759 - 1840
Husband of  Cynthia Goodwin
Son of Philip Phillips and Mercy Philips From an article submitted by Ina Atchison

In the year 1814, Elijah, leaving his eldest son Elijah and probably three daughters in Massachusetts, left his home at Ashfield, and, with his wife and several children, drove in an ox-cart 600 miles to West Virginia where he settled at the end of the road on Mulberry Ridge of French Creek, on land now owned by Mrs. Linn T. Phillips, the widow of a grandson of Elijah Phillips. A year later, Elijah's brother David with his family, came from Massachusetts and settled on an adjoining farm. Elijah Phillips had seventeen children, three of whom died in childhood. David, his brother, had six sons and from these two families there has descended a numerous posterity. The children of Elijah were Elijah, Mabel, Ansel, Abiezer, Mercy, Luceba, Lyman, Lydia, Cynthia, Samantha, Delia, Edwin, Lydia, Jonathan and three unnamed infants. The grandchildren of Eljah numbered at least eighty-nine. Of the children of Elijah Phillips named above Edwin, Cynthia, Samantha and Delia married and reared families who resided in Upshur County, most of them at or near French Creek.

David's children were William, Horace, Richard, Uriah, Ebenezer and John. All these sons married and raised families within the vicinity of French Creek. William, the eldest, married Mehitable Gould and there were born to them sixteen children; Richard married Eliza Perry and had nine children; Ebenezer married Catherine Louden and had seven children; Uriah married Mary Young and had four children; Horace married Susan Cutright and had nine children and John married Miss Bosworth, and later, Eva Haddock, one child resulting from the first union and two from the latter.

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