~ FREDERICK SHEPARD PHILLIPS ~ 1839 - ? ~
Husband of Laura A. Taylor
Son of Abiram Phillips and Lucretia JepsonA LETTER FROM FREDERICK N. PHILLIPS
(From 1964 Pioneer)Submitted by Mike Gould
Frederick N. Phillips of Salem, Oregon, traveled to French Creek to attend the 1962 Pioneer Meeting. He came as a guest of Mr. and Mrs. George P. Brady with whom he had been corresponding about the Phillips genealogy.
His letter to the secretary follows:
Dear Mrs. Hoover,
I received your letter with interest but do not know what to include in a sketch or short biography of myself that would be of interest to others.
I might say that I am a descendant of Lemuel Phillips, brother of Elijah and David Phillips, who were pioneers of 1814 and 1815 of French Creek. My descent continues through Abiram Phillips who removed from Ashfield about 1850 with the younger members of his family. Lucretia, wife of Abiram, died April 6, 1845 at Ashfield.
My grandfather, Frederick Shepard Phillips, and his brother, Nathan, were members of Company K, Wisconsin Volunteers, and both were wounded in the battle of Corinth, Mississippi, May or June of 1862, and both received medical discharges in the fall following.
Frederick Shepard Phillips was married to Laura A. Taylor, November 24, 1863, at Winona, Minnesota. Then by easy stages the family came west to Montecito, California, by the fall of 1874. My father was born January 1, 1883, at Montecito or Santa Barbara (as the city today extends to include Montecito). My father, Frederick Norman Phillips, was the youngest of a family of five boys.
My father met my mother, May Hulda Byles, of Santa Barbara, California, and they were married July 3, 1910.
I spent the first few years of my life near Santa Barbara, but my father and Uncle Ralph felt the urge to go North, so we spent fourteen years in the Sacramento Valley in Glenn County, and I have been in the state of Oregon now 32 years.
In 1943 I became interested in family records and started in a modest way at gathering all that was available. The first dozen years my efforts seemed so hopeless as I was always probing "blind alleys", so to speak. Then I found the key to the books I had already gathered and the records began to come in fast.
About 1960 I discovered the Phillipses of French Creek and got in communication with the family of George P. Brady.
I enjoyed my visit in French Creek in August of 1962 while attending the Pioneer gathering. Although I am not able to attend this one of 1964, I expect to be on hand at future gatherings.Just recently I found additional record of Phillips' descendants of the pioneers of 1819 in Indiana.
I have been a clerk with the Oregon State Bureau of Labor here in Salem for the past seven years. This past spring I was elected to fill out the term of Secretary of the Marion County Historical Society.
Sincerely,
Frederick N. Phillips
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