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EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power
These biographies were submitted by a researcher and evidently abstracted from the 1876 History of Sangamon
County, IL. Errors could occur, so one should always verify the correctness by obtaining copies of vitals and performing all
necessary research to document what is contained herein.
PHILLIPS, MRS. CHARLOTTE
, whose maiden name was Smith, a sister of Jonas Smith and Mrs. Ebenezer Colburn. She was born Dec. 18, 1799, in Suffolk Couty, L. I., New York, married in 1816, at Marietta, Ohio, to Burfit Goldsmith, a native of Maryland. They had four children, and Mr. G. died in 1837 at Cincinnati. The widow was married in 1838 to Joel D. Phillips. They had one child and father and child died in 1854, in Tipton county, Ind. All her children are dead, except her son, W. H. O. Goldsmith. He wa a member of the lst U. S. Dragoons for five years, and served through the war to suppress the rebellion. He is married, and lives in Rush county, Ind. Mrs. Phillips resides with her brother Jonas Smith, at Loami, Illinois.
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