LOTHROP PHILLIPS ~ 1836 - 1861
Husband of Charlotte Bean
Son of William Phillips and Mehitable Gould

THE HISTORY OF UPSHUR COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA, by W. E. Cutright, 1907

LOTHROP PHILLIPS, born October 19, 1836.  The first white child born on the waters of Laurel Fork of French Creek, son of William Phillips, the oldest son of David Phillips.  His mother was Mehitable, a daughter of Aaron Gould, Sr., and she gave birth to sixteen children, ten sons and six daughters, of which two sons and one daughter are now living (1907).

WILLIAM PHILLIPS children were:

Franklin, who married Fanny Shurtliff, the widow of Amandus Young

Note: According to Nell Stevens
 The site has Fannie Shurtliff as the widow of Amandus Young but it was Franklin's second wife Caroline who was married to Young who was killed in the Civil War.

David, who married Esther Gould, daughter of Nathan Gould, Jr.

Clara Ann, wife of Jason Loomis

Lafayette, soldier in Company E, 3rd W. Virginia Inf., married Elizabeth Cogar of Braxton Co

Lydia Jane, wife of Samuel Knisley (Kniceley), a soldier in Company F, 10th W. Virginia Infantry;

Mortimer, soldier in Illinois Company

Moselle, wife of Mr. Lowe of Braxton County;

Herbert, soldier in Company E, died at Bell Island, married Mary Carter; (Electa), wife of

Mirandus Rexroad, soldier in Company A, 10th W. Virginia Infantry

Goodman G., soldier, who died at home with fever, September 6, 1861; James S., soldier in Company E, 3rd W Virginia Infantry, killed at Cross Keys, VA

Lothrop, who enlisted at Buckhannon, 1862, in Company 3, 1st W Virginia Light Artillery, was in the Buckhannon fight and was discharged soon afterwards for a disability.  He re-enlisted in the 1st W Virginia Calvary under Captain Hagans.  He was never wounded and was mustered out at Wheeling. His (Lothrop) first wife was Charlotte Bean, daughter of Andrew and Nellie (Roberts) Bean of Hampshire County, and their children were:
James, dead;
Florence May, wife of W. P. Newcome
Cornelia, single; Rozetta, wife of John B. Lemmons
Ida Bell, wife of Charles McFallin; William Sherman, married Mary Loudin
Ellen, wife of William H. Ocheltree; Scott, married Cynda Cogar. His second wife was Susan A. Krise, daughter of Jacob Krise of Albemarle County, VA.

Mr. Phillips until 1904, lived in Meade District.  Is now a resident of Buckhannon.  Draws a good pension for palsy.

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The following has been transcribed from:

Upshur Brothers
Of the Blue
And the Gray

By Betty Hornbeck
McClain Printing Co.
Parson W. Va.
1967

A letter from Lothrop Phillips to his wife Charoltte, dated July 29, 1863 from Grafton, United States Hospital, wherein he wrotes

"..... had been picking black berries which I sold for a dollar and 20 cents.  If I was stout enough I cood make $2 a day gethering beris but the doctors wonte let me gather any more"

"Our company is down on the Potomac near Lee's Army where they will have something to do."

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