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The Sookity JuN 1911 LEWIS PATRICK PHILLIPS Nostra ^ueb LEWIS PATRICK PHILLIPS SON OF JOHN PHILLIPS A SOLDIER OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY fj^HE CALIFORNIA SOCIETY SONS OP THE REYOLUTION, HONORS AS ONE OP ITS MOST CHERISHED MEMBERS, THE SON OF A VALIANT SOLDIER WHO SERVED THROUGH MANY CAMPAIGNS WITH THE CONTINENTAL TROOPS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH CAROLINA, DURING THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION. JOHN PHILLIPS WAS BORN 1759, IN HALIFAX COUNTY, NORTH (CAROLINA, AND HE DIED ON NOVEMBER 20, ]S3(;, IN JOHNSTON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. A FEW YEARS BEFORE HIS DEATH, FOR THE BENEFIT OF HIS CHILDREN, HE COMPILED A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF HIS LIFE, OP WHICH A MOST INTERESTING PART IS NOW RETAINED BY HIS SON. THIS MEMOIR IS WRITTEN IN BEAUTIFULLY REGULAR AND DIS- TINCT CHARACTERS, AND HIS OBSERVATIONS UPON THE SOCIAL LIFE OF HIS ENVIRONMENT, AND THE PROFOUNDLY RELIGIOUS COURSE OF THOUGHT PERVADING HIS WRITINGS INDICATE AN INTEL LECTUAL CULTURE OF A HIGH ORDER. OF HIS EARLY LIFE HE SAYS: "MY FATHER DYED IN MY INFANCY, LONG BEFORE MY REMEM- BRANCE; MY MOTHER BEING POOR AND NOT FURNISHED WITH THE NE(JESSARIES OF LIFE GAVE ME UP TO THE DISCRESION OF MY UNCLES AND GRANDMOTHER BY FATHER'S SIDE. MY GRANDMOTHER TOOK SOME PAINS IN LEARNING ME MY CREED, THE LORD'S PRAYER ETC, AND WAS VERY CAUTIOUS IN NOT ALLOWING MiE TO LYE, CURSE NOR SWEAR. IT PLEASED THE LORD TO PUT IT INTO THEIR HEARTS TO GIVE ME SOME SCHOOLING." HIS FIRST ENLISTMENT WAS IN JULY 1775, AS A PRIVATE IN CAPTAIN POKT'S COMPANY OK TIIK SOT'TII CAROLINA RECxIMENT COMMANDED BV COLONEL POWELL, A.\D UIS LAST ENLISTMENT WAS ON OCTOBER 10, 177,S, JX THE COMI'ANV OP CAPTAIN JOSEl'H WOOD, IN THE NORTH CAROLINA RECIMKNT COMMANDED I5V COLONEL I'HILTP ALSTON. H K PA UTICI I'ATIII) IN MAX V TOURS AND SKIRMISHES. AND IN THIO H.VTTEES OP HHW.H CK'EEK. GEORCilA, MARCH .3. 1779; COWPENS, SOUTH CAKOIJNA, .lANIAI.'V 17, 17S1, AM) CUILPORD, NORTH CAROLINA, MARCH l.", 17X1, KPCPl V i \( J AN HONOKAHLE DISCHARCE AT THE CLOSE OP HIS SERVICES, WHEN HE RESUMED HIS STUDIES AND POR A CONSIDERABLE I'lOIMol) HE TAUGHT SCHOOL. HIS SECOND WIPE WAS POLI.V THOMPSON, WHOM HE MARRIED ON OCTOBER 3, ISL'l, IN JOHNSTON COUNTS, NORTH CAROLINA, WHEU'E HE LIVED THE LIPE OP A PLANTER. AN I. HERE, ON OCTOBER 2, 1831, WAS BORN HIS SON LEWIS PATRICK PHILLIPS, THE YOUNGEST OP HIS THREE CHILDREN BY THIS MARRIAGE. ON AUGUST 2!t, 1S37, HE WAS GRANTED A PENSION BY THE UNITED STATES Gt)VERNMENT POR HIS SERVICES DURING THE WAR OP THE REVOLUTION, BUT HE LIVED ONLY TWO YEARS AND THREE MONTHS THEREAPTEK, DYING WHEN HIS YOUNG SON WAS BUT EIGHT YEARS OLD. ON NOVEMBER 3(i, 1843, POLLY TI10MPS(JN PHILLIPS, Ills WIDOW, RECEIVED A PENSION, AND SUP SURVIVED HIM UNTIL 1S70, HER LIPE TERMINATING IN THE HOME OP II PR SON IN SHELBY COUNTY ILLINOIS. LEWIS PATRICK PHILLIPS RECEIVED AN EXCELLENT EDUCA- TION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND IN POWELL'S ACADEMY, OP NORTH CAROLINA. AT THE COMMENCEMENT OP THE CIVIL W.\R HE WAS A .lUSTICE OP THE PEACE IN JOHNSTON COUNTY, AND LATER, HE WAS EXEMPT FROM MILITARY SERVICE IN THE CONPEDERATE ARMY, BV REASON OP HIS BEING THE AGENT AT STABLING'S STATION,' OP THE NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL RAIL ROAD COMPANY, WHICH POSI- TION HE HELD UNTIL THE CLOSE OP THE WAR, ALTHOIU.'H HIS REPU- TATION AS AN ACCOUNTANT AND MANAGER INDUCED THE CONFEDER- ATE MILITARY COMMANDER IN HIS VICINITY TO CALL UPON HIM POR ASSISTANCE, AND POR A SHORT PERIOD HE ACTED AS CLERK POR COLONEL RADC:LIFF. IN APRIL, 18Ci5, HE WENT TO SHELBY COUNTY, ILLINOIS, WHERE HE CONDUCTED THE OPERATIONS OP A FAIUI UNTIL 1870, WHEN HE ACCEPTED THE APPOINTMENT OP DEPUTY COUNTY CLERK OF MOULTRIE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, WHICH POSITION HE HELD FOR SIX YEARS. IN 1876 HE RETURNED SOUTH AND, LOCATING ON A FARM IN JOHNSON COUNTY, TEXAS, HE RAISED ( (ITTON AND CORN DURING THE SUCCEEDING ELEVEN YEARS. IN 1887 HE CAME TO CALIFORNIA AND MADE A HOME IN DOWNEY, LOS ANiiELES COUNTY, WHERE HE HAS SINCE RESIDED. IN 1894 HE WAS ELECTED JUSTICE OP THE PEACE FOR DOWNEY TOWNSHIP, AND IN NOVEMBER, 1910. HE WAS RE-ELECTED FOR THE THIRD TERM OF FOUR YEARS. JUDGE PHILLIPS DURING HIS LONG LIFE HAS BEEN AN ADHERENT TO THE PRINCIPLES OF THE DEMO CRATIC PARTY, BUT THE AFFECTION OF HIS NEIGHBORS, THE GREAT REGARD OP HIS ASSOCIATES AND THE RESPECT FOR HIS CHARAC- TER AND ABILITIES, HAVE PLACED HIM ON THE .lUDICIAL BENCH DURING FOUR ELECTIONS IN A DISTRICT HAVING A LARGE REPUB- LICAN MAJORITY. HE HAS BEEN MARRIED FOUR TIMES AND HAS BEEN BLESSED !/ WITH FOURTEEN CHILDREN, THOSE OF THE YOUNGER GENERATION 1/ BEING MEMBERS OP HIS FIRESIDE. HE CARRIES HIS SEVENTY-NINE YEARS WITH A VIGOR THAT PROMISES MANY DAYS OF HAPPY ASSOCIATION WITH THE LOVED ONES OF HIS CALIFORNIA HOME. ^ Ki:5-:W!1 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS |||i|||,|iiillilillll^m. illi ^mrm wm lilii