Joseph Stone PHILLIPS (Samuel¹),  son of Samuel Phillips and Sarah Stone, born 10 April 1833, died 12 July 1916.   

In Buffalo, his church was the Bethel Church, which was originally for seamen in 1830. Municipality of Buffalo, A History V II 1923 Lewis Pub. Co,. Chicago.

Joseph lived at the State Soldier's Home, Hot Springs South Dakota c1857, Brown County, Wisconsin and he lived in Algona and Boyden, Iowa, after he mustered out of the army in  1865.

His occupation: Minister/ Brick Maker. His church: Free Methodist Military: Sgt. Civil. War (Cavalry.)

He was in Mt Vernon Iowa 1899; Omaha, Nebraska, 1890 During census and in Shanesburg, Iowa in 1907; Preble, Wisconsin in 1860. He was a Free Methodist Minister and served in Phoenix, Arizona, Los Angeles, California, South Dakota and  Iowa. He was a Sergeant in Company G 2nd Wisconsin Calvary. His final home was in the Soldier's Home at  Hot Springs, South Dakota.

1900 MILITARY CENSUS--

4110 house 79. family 94; JOSEPH S. PHILLIPS; Private Company G 2nd Wisconsin Regiment; Enlisted Dec. 1861; Discharged Dec. 1865; Service 4 years, 10 days. P0 Address: Omaha, Nebraska.

1905 South Dakota State Census--MRS.. JOSEPH S. PHILLIPS born New York; Parents born New York,  JOSEPH S. PHILLIPS born New York; Parents born New York

MARY ELLEN MACK'S: Parents born New York; She was born in Pennsylvania.

Information on death certificate of  MARY ELLEN MACK PHILLIPS: Hot Springs, South Dakota; died  aged 79 years 0 months 21 days; birth place Pennsylvania; Father: Levi Mack, born New York  ; Mother Betsy Pallir born New York;

Mary died of Apoplexy; Informant Joseph Phillips of Hot Springs. -- Department of History Division of Census and Vital Statistics Reg # 57.

Information listed on the Death Certificate of Joseph Stone Phillips: Died of Pneumonia;

Informant L.(Lester) M. Phillips of Wendling, Oregon (Wendling Was A Small Town NE of Springfield, Oregon. It no longer exists); Father John Phillips born England; Mother born England)--Oregon State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, State Index 14 191 Local Reg. No 22.

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Algona, Iowa

Aug 29th 1904

I willingly give to J. S. Phillips the privilege to use the E 1/2 Lot 5 Block 44 owned by me in Sioux Falls Cemetery providing that the two graves thereon are not disturbed. (Grandmother deeded or gave these lots away--Alice Bettis 1995)  Mrs. Alice Phillips Shaddick.' Upon the death of Marguerite (Goebel) Dickinson, wife of John Henry Dickinson In 1993, the above document was found in her papers. Joseph Stone Phillips was the maternal grandfather of Pearl Ruby (Phillips) Dickinson, wife of Dr. William Eugene Dickinson. Alice Shaddick was the wife of Joseph's Son, William. She married George Shaddick after William's death In 1900. 
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Free Methodist Historical Center, Winona Lake, In 46590, April 7, 1980

Dear Mrs. Dickinson:

We are happy to be of further help in your research. We appreciate your contribution to the Historical office. The last address we find given for J. L. Phillips Is Rhinelander, Wisconsin which seems to be in The Northern District of which Chetek is the Center. I will mention two other Phillips I find mentioned, as well as the information I found on J. S.Phillips. In 1901, an E. S. Phillips was listed as a lay delegate, in The Nebraska Conference. From 1897 To 1900, an L. M. Phillips is listed as a minister in the West Iowa Conference. In 1900 he located at his own request. You mention in your letter that J. L. Phillips moved quite often. This was the rule rather than the exception in those days. You will see this in the life of J. S. Phillips as well. J. S. Phillips was ordained elder in 1884 in the Dakota Conference. in the history of the church, he is listed as a charter member of that conference when it was organized at Providence, Dakota, on September 19, 1883. In 1886, he was on the committee to study the opening of a school at Wessington Springs, South Dakota.  A later relative, Clara Grace OSGOOD, attended this school about 1925.

Here are a list of his appointments:

• 1888 - Mitchell, MT. Vernon, Parkston and Providence.
• 1889 - Mitchell and MT. Vernon.
• 1890 - transferred to West Iowa. appointed to Omaha. (he is listed on the 1890 veteran's census as living in Omaha, Nebraska.)
• 1891 - Clarinda and College Springs.
• 1892 - Shenandoah.
• 1893 - transferred to Southern California. appointed to Los Angeles.
• 1894 - District chairman of the Arizona district and appointed to Phoenix.
• 1895 - Pasadena and Lamando Park.
• 1896 - transferred to West Iowa. appointed to Clarinda.
• 1897 - College Springs and Pleasant Hill.

Joseph retired in 1899.

sincerely yours, Mrs. Arline Clyde'

Algona Iowa
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March 25th 1914

State Soldiers Home

I am writing a few lines to ask about Rev. J.S. Phillips.

I had a letter from him a few weeks ago. he was just up from a severe sick spell, was hardly abel (sic.) to write to me. I answered the letter but have had no word from him. Please let me know about him. we are very anxious in regard to him. kindly oblige,

Mrs. Geo Shaddick

Algona Iowa

The above letter is in Joseph Phillip's file at the soldiers home in Hot Springs, South Dakota.
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The obituary of Mary Ellen Mack Phillips, daughter of Rev. Levi M. Mack: She was born May 3 1831. She departed this life at Hot Springs, South Dakota, May 25, 1909. She was married to Rev.Joseph S. Phillips in the Sailor's Bethel Church at Buffalo, New York, (Presbyterian at the time of the marriage.) by the Rev. Griffith, July 17, 1853. Lovingly and loyally side by side, they fought the battles of life for 56 years and 22 days. From her childhood she was an earnest, devoted Christian and never failed or faltered in the path of duty. modest and retiring, she desired to be remembered only by what she had done. Truly a mother of Israel has left us. Her last days were made happy and pleasant by the presence of the lord and the kindly ministrations of friends who knew and loved her. Her remains were laid to rest in the beautiful Woodlawn Cemetery at Sioux Falls, feeling that she is not dead but sleeping. May those who so kindly ministered to us in the hour of bereavement lack no kindly voice to cheer and comfort them at the close of life.  J.S.P. (Joseph Stone PHILLIPS - Hot Springs Weekly Star Friday, June 11, 1909).
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A search was made for an obituary on Joseph Phillips in the Hot Springs newspaper but the relevant copies are not on file. Joseph Phillips was living at the soldier's home in Hot Springs, South Dakota. The home has a file on him that has many interesting documents. At the time that Joseph Phillips lived here, there were small cottages about the grounds of the state veterans home. the veterans were kept on register, and if they kept a wife with them, they were not on roll, and registered, so therefore, we have no record of Mary Ellen. We do note on the application for admission, Mary E. Phillips, wife was mentioned as next of kin, and there is a line drawn through her name, and son C. L. Phillips of 802 first Ave 5, Sioux Falls, South Dakota was written in....'--State Veterans Home, Hot Springs South Dakota. 57747.'

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the following information was taken from the military records of Joseph Phillips: lived -

Nov  1861 Green Bay, Wisconsin; Jan 1862 Madison, Wisconsin.; 1865 Boyden and Algona, Iowa, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Omaha, Nebraska, Shendoah, Iowa, Los Angeles, California, Phoenix, Arizona, then Sioux Falls, then Hot Springs; July 1889 MT Vernon, Davidson, Dakota Territory; July 1890 Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska; February 1904 Grant County, Indiana?, Marion Oct 1904 Sioux falls, South Dakota; April 1907 Shambaugh, Iowa; April 1908 Hot Springs, Fall River County, South Dakota; May 1912 Hot Springs, South Dakota.

A department of the interior document shows only sons: Charles, Joseph, Willie, George, and Lester were alive by 5 July 1898. 

Re Joseph:
Declaration for original invalid pension: '10th day of May 1862 he incurred an injury to the left side caused by jumping from an untamed horse which had been unmanageable. also incurred injury during the sinking of the steamer 'John R. Roe' in the Mississippi River 12 September 1864 which has resulted in and caused rheumatism of the heart and general disability being now almost totally disabled and unable to perform manual labor on account of aforesaid disabilities.'--July 10 1889. (H.J. Harlow of Sioux Falls was appointed as Joseph's true and lawful attorney to prosecute the claim.)

Since discharge Nov 15, 1865 Joseph resided in Boyden and Algona, Iowa working as a brick maker. Prior to the Civil War he was a farmer.

Rev. Joseph Phillips was city trustee in Algona, Iowa c1875.--'History of Kossuth County' 1912. (parmr-aol)

additional information on children:

• child #1 Charles Laurence - buried in Woodlawn Cemetery Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
• child # 2 Joseph LeRoy born 1856.
• child # 3 Sarah born about 1858
• child #4 William Henry - born 1860, wife Alice Pettit was the daughter of Isaac and Marie (Arwy / Orivig)  Pettit of Algona, Iowa. Alice and William are buried in Riverview Cemetery Algona, Iowa.
• child #5 George S (tone ?) (Mack ?). - born 1862,  married first Abba Thompson born Dec 1863 Ohio. Married 2nd c1896 l. Luella ____________ .
• child #6 Lester M (ack ? / Mattier ?) - baptised 1866, wife Georgia Lillian Miller was born 25 Nov. 1873 and died 10 Mar 1931 trail or they are buried in Oregon City Cemetery.
  Perhaps: Another Sarah and a Dadie, both born after the Civil War.  This list from Joseph Stone Phillip's pension papers

General Remarks:

Philip, Phillips: the name signifies in Greek a lover of horses, being the combination of two words philos and hippos.
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• Charles Lawrence Phillips, son of Joseph Stone and Mary Mack, born 23 April 1854 in Buffalo, NY. H

• Sarah PHILLIPS, daughter of Joseph Phillips and Mary Mack, born about 1858 in Wisconsin.  

• William Henry PHILLIPS, son of Joseph Stone and Mary Mack, born 1 June 1860 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. 

• Joseph Leroy PHILLIPS, son of Joseph Stone and Mary Mack, born 20 March 1856 in Buffalo, New York.

• George S PHILLIPS, son of Joseph Stone and Mary Mack, born August 1862 in Madison, Wisconsin.

• Lester Mack/Morten PHILLIPS, son of Joseph Phillips and Mary Mack,  born 28 October 1866 (not found) in Algona, Iowa

• Sarah PHILLIPS, daughter of Joseph Phillips and Mary Mack,born 1864, died 5 July 1898, at the age of 34.   From Father's Pension p

• Dadie PHILLIPS,  daughter of Joseph Phillips and Mary Mack,  born +1864, died 5 July 1898, at the age of 34.   From Father's Pension p

Charles Lawrence Phillips, son of Joseph Stone and Mary Mack, born 23 April 1854 in Buffalo, NY. He married Annie Jones.  Charles died 3 December 1935 in Canistota, South Dakota, at the age of 81.   Charles had children, but Warren did

 not know their names.Canistota Main Street 2002

• Sioux City 
• Des Moines Iowa, 
• Wisconsin,
• Idaho, 
• Bellingham, Washington, 
• Sedro Wooley Washington,
• Springfield Oregon,
• Wendling , Oregon, 
• Medford Oregon, 
• Trail Oregon, back to 
• West Springfield 
• and passed on  in Gladstone Oregon. 

  L. M Phillips at Rough River Hatchery	Lester M. PHILLIPS in front, sons L to R Lester, Raymond, Loran and Joseph
  The Reverend  Lester Mack or Morton. Phillips found that with such a large family  it was necessary for him to supplement his preachers salary by working in  the lumber mills which he did in Bellingham, Sedro Wooley, Springfield, and  Wendling. When he moved to Trail he was employed by the U. S. Fish Hatchery  located at the confluence of Elk Creek and the Rouge River.  This is a  small creek on the Rouge River. T was located at the confluence of the Rouge and k. Elk Creek for the dispute over the construction of a Dam opposed by various conservation groups. The hatchery is  no longer there and the area has been turned into a campground. He took up  a home stead just across the Crater Lake highway from the hatchery. This is  where Georgia passed on the victim of diabetes in 1931. A few years later  he remarried ?. After he retired he returned his homestead to the State of  Oregon for a small monthly pension. He came back to His son's place on  Henderson Ave where he built a small House. When he and his second wife  could no longer take care of themselves, she returned to her family in  Louisiana and he went to live with his daughter, Bernice in Gladstone. He  passed on there in the early 60's at around 93 years of age.   That is about all I know of my Grandfather that you don't already  know.   After Reverend  Lester M. Phillips retired, in Springfield, he was the pastor of the Free Methodist Church in  Glenwood or what is now called West Springfield on old highway 99 between  Eugene and Springfield.

As you knowLester Mack/Morten Phillips married Georgea Miller [ or Muellar?]  They had 11 children.   

• Bernice Phillips, daughter of Lester Mack/Morton Phillips  and Georgia Bernice was born about 1905

• Morten Phillips son of Lester Mack/Morton Phillips  and Georgia, born about 1889 (Morton P or Martin J?)

• (Alice) Irene Phillips, daughter of Lester Mack/Morton Phillips  and Georgia, born about 1891,  Iowa,

• Joseph Stone Phillips, son of Lester Mack/Morton Phillips  and Georgia, born in Des Moines, Iowa 18 November 1893

• Lester Stone Phillips, son of Lester Mack/Morton Phillips  and Georgia, born iabout 1907, married, 4 children, names unknown, lived at Trail, Oregon and Glenwood, Oregon and was divorced in early 40's. Lester lived in the Eugene, Oregon area until he died.

• Violet Phillips, daughter of Lester Mack/Morton Phillips  and Georgia, born about 1910. Married a ? Schrock and lived in Portland, Oregon

• Beula Grace Phillips, daughter of Lester Mack/Morton Phillips  and Georgia was born about 1914 and was killed as a child in a hunting accident

• Hazel Phillips, daughter of Lester Mack/Morton Phillips  and Georgia. Hazel was born about 1903 

• Loran Phillips, son of Lester Mack/Morton Phillips  and Georgia, born about 1912, married and had one son.  He lived at Trail, Oregon until he joined the army.  He was a paratrooper and was killed in Italy in WW II

• Raymond Phillips, son of Lester Mack/Morton Phillips  and Georgia was born about 1917.  He married Vera and had no children.  He was an engineer and a Sergeant in WWII and survived D Day landing in World War II.  They lived in Eugene, Oregon

• Charles Phillips, son of Lester Mack/Morton Phillips  and Georgia. Charles  was born about 1899 

• James L  Phillips, son of Lester Mack/Morton Phillips  and Georgia. Charles  was born about 1898 

• they  had two sons. I don't know their names.  

• Russel Perkins, son of (Alice) Irene Phillips and Pat Perkins

• Loretta Perkins, daughter of (Alice) Irene Phillips and Pat Perkins

• Byron Perkins, son of (Alice) Irene Phillips and Pat Perkins

• Dorothy.  Perkins, daughter of (Alice) Irene Phillips and Pat Perkins

Joe went into the Army during WW II.  After the war he went to work for the Booth Kelly Lumber Company and worked for them and the subsequent owners, Georgia Pacific until his retirement in 1959. except for the short time during the depression.

Helen Jane {Lee} Phillips

Across the road from the parsonage where he lived were the H. E. Lee family, staunch members of the church. Helen Jane Lee was the third child in  the family. She was born in 1900. They were married in 1917. Joe went into the Army During WWll, After the war he went to work for the Booth-Kelly Lumber company and worked for them and the subsequent owners, Georgia Pacific until his retirement in 1959 except for a short time during the depression.. He enjoyed a reputation for being a hard worker, honest and generous. 

At some point he assisted every member of his family and that of his wife's. He and my mother made great sacrifices to send me to college. They lived at 2180 South Henderson Ave. in Glenwood until after they retired. They then moved Smith-Oak St in Eugene, Oregon.  He died from a heart-attack in 1967. Helen died in 1969 from a brain tumor.  Joe and Helen had two boys. Warren Byron Phillips and Lawrence Jason Phillips. Larry born at Glenwood on 13 February 1922. He graduated from Springfield High School in 1940. He was an Engineer for the  southern Pacific Railroad until retirement in 1967. He married Shirley  Barnes in 1942. They had three children: Robert Dixon born in Eugene in 1943. He became a railroad engineer like  his father and is now retired living in Eugene, Oregon. he has two children. Sheril who has been married three times and had one son. She now lives in Arizona Rodney who is married and living in Reno, Nevada. He has no children of his own.    

• Warren Byron Phillips  son of Joseph Stone and Helen Phillips

• Lawrence Jason Phillips son of Joseph Stone and Helen Phillips

• Ebba Swanson  born 20 January 1889 at Hecla, South Dakota. 
• Carol's father James Arthur  Bird married Ebba 22  April 1916 at Great Falls Montana. He was born 23  January 1887 at Higonsville, Mo.   
  
• Ebbas Father Hogan Swanson migrated from  Sweden to Hecla South Dakota where he  married Christina Olson.
  They moved to Barnsville Minnesota. Ebba graduated  from Moorhead Normal School and moved to Haver Montana where she taught  school and homesteaded 360 acres. Art Bird had a mail route out of Box  Elder and also homesteaded close by. They married and after six years of  grasshoppers moved on to Shelby Montana where they operated a restaurant  during the famous Jack Dempsey-Georges Carpenter Heavyweight fight. Then  onto Spokane, Washington and finally to Eugene where Ebba swore she would  never leave and she didn't.   
• Carol attended Eugene High School and I went to Springfield High. Although  a year younger than I she was a year ahead of me in school. I first saw her  while working on a neighbors farm. She was riding horses with the farmers  Daughter. My senior year in high school, I saw her again when she was part  of a symposium put on at my school by the University of Oregon Speech Dept. The next year  we were in the same speech class at the University. And the following year  she and two other girls seated around me managed to pass Psychology 101 by  copying off my paper during the final exam. Our junior year we started  dating and we were married on our graduation day from the University of Oregon. Now 62  years later she is still my valentine! - by Warren 2005
      
  Warren and Carol had 4 or 5 children

• Warren Byron Phillips, Jr., son of Warren Byron Phillips and Carol Amy Bird   

• Lawrence Eugene Phillips son of Warren Byron Phillips and Carol Amy Bird

• Mark Christian son of Warren Byron Phillips and Carol Amy Bird

• Jill Karol Phillips daughter  of Warren Byron Phillips and Carol Amy Bird

• Julie
• Wilson.  

• Gustav Warren. Gus is married to Audrey Word.  Gus and Audrey live at Fort Wainright, Alaska.
• Selena Kathleen.  

• Robert Dixon Phillips , son of Lawrence Jason Phillips and Shirley Barnes

• Sheril Phillips, daughter of Lawrence Jason Phillips and Shirley Barnes, has been married 3 times and had one son.  She now lives in Arizona

• Rodney Phillips , son of Lawrence Jason Phillips and Shirley Barnes. Rodney is married and lives in Reno, Nevada.  He has no children of his own

• James L Phillips born about 1898

•  Delores Purkey was the daughter of Bernice Phillips and Carson Purkey

• Winston. Purkey. was the son of Bernice Phillips and Carson Purkey

• Lester  Leroy  Phillips (Sonny). Lester was the oldest son of Lester M. Phillips and  Gertrude.  He died at age nine, passing away in a local hospital at 8:30 Saturday morning.

Obituary:  He was born at Trail November 24, 1928.  For two years he attended school at Phoenix.  Beside his parents Mr. & Mrs. Lester Phillips. he leaves two sisters and one brother, Dorothy, Jean, and Robert Phillips.  Also three grandparents, L.M. Phillips, Sr. of Trail and Mr, and Mrs. Daniel Hanscom. Funeral services in care of Conger Funeral Parlors will be held at the grave in Tail Cemetery at 10:30 am Monday with Rev Starkey of the Free Methodist Church officiating - - Medford, Oregon Mail Tribune, Sunday, January, 1938.  Lillian (Miller) and Lester (Mack?) Phillips 

General Remarks:
The Lester Milton PHILLIPS born 7 April 1901; died 31 August 1968
Buried Rest Haven Niche's in an Ashland Cemetery, does not appear to be our Lester.

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