PHILLIPS, FRANCIS
, was born in 1785, in Maryland. He went to Greene county, Ky., and was there married in 1810 to Mary Duggin, a native of Virginia. They had five children in Kentucky, one of whom died young. The family moved to Sangamon county, arriving in 1829, near Springfield. Of their children -MOREAU, born May 26, 1811, in Green county, Ky., came with his parents to Sangamon county in 1829, and was in the Black Hawk war in a Sangamon county company in 1831. He returned to Kentucky, and was married in Green county, in 1836, to Melissa Lee, a native of that county, also. They had nine children in Sangamon county, two of whom died young. F. MORTIMER, born Nov. 7, 1837, married in 1861 to Mattie A. Troxell, a native of Maryland. They have two children, Alice Bell and Willie, and reside in Springfield. THOMAS J., born Dec. 3, 1839, died April 1871. MOREAU, J., born Feb. 16, 1843, and WILLIAM O., born in 1846, reside in Springfield with their parents. CHARLES J., born in 1848, married, Oct. 1873, to Etta Snow, a native of Maine. They have two children, Bertha and Etta, and reside in Springfield. MARY, born Sept, 1853, died March 1873. URIAH EDWIN, born June 1851, and ROBERT EMMET, born Feb. 8, 1858, reside with their parents, in Springfield. Moreau Phillips was one of the ten young men who went to Nashville, Tenn., to hear Henry Clay make a political speech in 1840. See sketch with name of J. H. Matheney.
JEFFERSON, born in 1813, in Green county, Ky., married in Springfield, in 1836, to Elizabeth Dillman, a native of Ohio. They had four children, two of whom died young. WILLIAM A. and FRANCIS reside at Winona, Illinois. Jefferson Phillips died about 1845.
MARY, born in 1815, in Green county, Ky., married in Springfield, in 1836, to Stephen G. Ubanks, They had two children - SUSANNAH, born in Petersburg, married there to Theodore S. Rogers. They reside near Zanesville, Montgomery county, Ill. MARGARET G., born Oct. 2, 1839, married Jan. 30, 1860, to Wm. H. Wickersham. They have five children, Lillie B., Nettie, Maude, Oliver and Charles S. Mr. Wickersham was born March 7, 1836, in Versailles, Ky., learned the business of printing in the State Journal office, went to California, in 1853, returned to Springfield in 1839, enlisted, Aug., 1862 for three years, in Co. C., 124th Ill. Inf., served until the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged. He is now engaged in the Journal office. Mrs. Ubanks died in 1845.
WILLIAM, born in 1826 in Green County Ky., raised in Sangamon county, married about 1846, in Petersburg, Ill., to Margaret White. They had two children, FRANK and JEFFERSON, both living in Petersburg. William Phillips died in 1852, in Petersburg.
Mrs. Mary or Margaret? Phillips died in 1835 in Springfield. Francis Phillips went back to Kentucky, married a Mrs. Lambkin, came to Springfield on business, and was returning to Kentucky when he died on the road.
Francis Phillips was something of a genius. Farming and chair making was his main business, but he would do any kind of job of painting, plain or ornamental. A hotel sign painted by him for Archer G. Herndon, is remembered by some of the old men, who in their boyhood days regarded it with an awe inspiring reverence that seems not to have left them to present time. The name of the hotel was the" Indian Queen", and the sign was the painter's idea of that imaginary personage.