Descendant of Celia Phillips and Arthur Reese
SIMEON PHILLIPS - Ftaher of Celia Jane Phillips and husband of Nancy Bodkins
Simeon
Phillips was born at French Creek in 1840, a son of Horace and Susan Cutright
Phillips. He died at Buckhannon, December 9, 1905. His first
wife was Rebecca Loudin and their children were Ord, Henry, U. Kester,
Cora, Clark, Arminta (Farnsworth), and Celia (Reese), was the child of
his second wife, Nancy Bodkins. Mr. Phillips was a farmer, a Justice
of the Peace, and a leader in the Methodist Church at Laurel Fork.
He named the church Ebenezer. A private in Co. E, Third West Virginia
Infantry under Capt. S. B. Phillips, he served until his company was reorganized
as a part of the Sixth Cavalry, he re-enlisted, and went to the Western
plains to protect the frontier from Indians.
--Arminta Farnsworth
Hot Springs, VA., 1960
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Phillips, Simeon Fch. Creek, W.Va. 20 June 27, 1861 Clarksburg, W.Va. Farmer, born Lewis Co., W.Va. Re-enlisted as a Vet. Vol. Feb. 29, 1864, under Gen'l Order #191, War Dep't Series of 1863; transferred to Co. C by consolidation
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