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L. G. PHILLIPS FAMILYSUBMITTED BY: Pam Mathiasen QUICK LINKS-L.G. PHILLIPS, LEANDER G. PHILLIPS FARM HOUSE, SARAH BUCHANNAN PHILLIPS, ADA PHILLIPS & HUSBAND ROBERT ANDERSON, MARGIE ANDERSON, LITTLE MARY
FIRST MERCHANT OF O'DONNELL 1911 DEATH REMOVES PIONEER; DIED WEDNESDAY ARTICLE IN JPG FORMAT HAULED MATERIALS FOR FIRST STORE FROM BIG SPRING LAST RITES FOR L.G. PHILLIPS 1856-1939, age 82, FIRST MERCHANT IN O'DONNELL AND WHO DIED IN HIS HOME HERE WEDNESDAY MORNING AT 8:30 O'CLOCK, WERE HELD FROM THE FIRST METHODIST CHURCH TODAY AT 2 O'CLOCK P.M. WITH PASTOR J.H. CRAWFORD, AND A.H. CUMMINGS OF THE NAZARENE CHURCH OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS MADE IN THE CITY CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF CLYDE BRANNON, FUNERAL DIRECTOR OF THE HIGGINBOTHAM FUNERAL HOME, LAMESA. SURVIVORS INCLUDE MR. PHILLIPS, WIDOW; SONS, LESTER OF OREGON, W.B. OF O'DONNELL, JAY OF OAKLAND, CALIF, WILL OF SAN ANTONIO; DAUGHTERS, FANNIE OF O'DONNELL, MRS. BEULAH SPENCER OF SAN FRANCISCO, MRS. CLEO CARTER OF OREGON; SISTER, MRS. LIZZIE COLLIER OF GOLDTHWAITE AND HALF-SISTER; MRS. F.K. POPLEWELL OF LUBBOCK. FORTY GRANDCHILDREN AND 37 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN ALSO SURVIVE. PALL BEARERS WERE R.C. CARROLL, J.W. GATES, T.R. TUNE, HARVEY LINE, ALBERT KOENINGER, ROY GIPSON, WHILE SERVING AS HONORARY BEARERS WERE WALDO MCLAURIN; PERRY HOWARD; A.C. HAMILTON, A.W. EARLY, MR. COOK; EARL CURTIS; O.D. HOWARD; CHAS. WELLS; ED PAYNE; CLIFF LAMBERT; P.G. GALNEAU, J.S. FRITZ, MR. MURPHY; J.E. TREDWAY AND J.B. MILES. FLOWER BEARERS WERE GRANDCHILDREN OF MR. PHILLIPS. BORN IN JULY 1856, MR. PHILLIPS WAS MARRIED OVER 63 YEARS AGO IN COOK COUNTY; LATER MOVING TO LYNN WHERE HE SETTLED AT DRAW. HE BECAME THE FIRST MERCHANT OF O'DONNELL IN 1911, OPERATING A GENERAL MERCHANDISE STORE; FOLLOWING THE TOWN'S LAYOUT BY C.H. DOAK, WHO GAVE THE LOT TO "THE FIRST MERCHANT ON THE GROUND." MR. PHILLIPS REMAINED IN BUSINESS UNTIL ABT 1922. THE FIRST SUNDAY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT OF O'DONNELL WAS ANOTHER DISTINCTION WHICH MR. PHILLIPS HELD. MATERIALS WHICH WENT INTO THE ERECTION OF MR. PHILLIPS' STORE WERE HAULED OVERLAND FROM BIG SPRING, AND THE PIONEER MERCHANT WENT THROUGH ALL THE TRIALS AND VICISSITUDES COMMON TO THE LOT OF PIONEERS WHO MARCH INTO UNSETTLED TERRITORY WITH HEADS UP AND HARTS STRONG. AMONG HIS FAVORITE STORIES CONCERNED MAIL FACILITIES OF THE EARLY DAYS. HE WAS NOTIFIED THAT A REGISTERED LETTER AWAITED HIM AT OLD LYNN, ABT 22 MILES FROM WHERE HE RESIDED. MR. PHILLIPS MADE PREPARATIONS FOR THE JOURNEY BUT FOUND UPON HIS ARRIVAL THAT IT WAS ONLY AN "ORDINARY LETTER," WHICH HAD BEEN SENT HIM JUST TO MAKE CERTAIN IT WAS DELIVERED.
LEANDER G. PHILLIPS FARM HOUSE
Photo is marked "Grandma and Grandpa Phillips house."
SARAH
BUCHANNAN PHILLIPS SARAH PHILLIPS ARTICLE IN JPG FORMAT
CLICK ON THUMBNAIL TO VIEW FULL PHOTO SUBMITTED BY Pam Mathiasen
Barbara June Beddow, daughter of Melvin Benjamin Beddow and Margie Mae Anderson was born 27 Aug 1933, still living. Barbara June Beddow is the great-granddaughter of Leander Gray Phillips and Sarah Buchannan Phillips. SARAH M. BUCHANNAN WAS BORN IN TENNESSEE JANUARY 27, 1859. HER FAMILY MOVED FROM THERE WHILE SHE WAS BUT A CHILD, COMING TO TEXAS AND LOCATING IN COOKE COUNTY, NEAR VALLEY VIEW. SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO L.G. PHILLIPS NOV. 9, 1876. THEY ESTABLISHED THEIR HOME IN COOKE COUNTY LIVING THERE FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. ELEVEN CHILDREN CAME TO BLESS THIS UNION. FOUR OF WHOM AR DECEASED. THOSE LIVING ARE WILEY B. OF O'DONNELL; MRS. BEULAH SPENCER, VAN NUYS, CALIF; MRS. CLEO CARTER AND LESTER OF SALEM OREGON, JAY OF OAKLAND, CALIF; MRS. FRANCES FANNY MARKS OF LOS ANGELES, CALIF AND WILLIE OF SAN ANTONIO. THIS FAMILY WERE PIONEER SETTLERS OF WEST TEXAS, COMING TO LYNN COUNTY IN 1902 LOCATING AT DRAW. IN 1910 THEY MOVED TO O'DONNELL. MR. PHILLIPS ESTABLISHED THE FIRST BUSINESS IN O'DONNELL-ON 8TH STREET ONE DOOR WEST O REX THEATRE. HE HAULED THE MATERIAL FOR HIS BUILDING OVERLAND FROM BIG SPRINGS. THEY WERE PROMINENT AND ACTIVE IN CIVIC AND RELIGIOUS LIFE OF THIS COMMUNITY. SISTER PHILLIPS HAS BEEN A LIFE LONG CHRISTIAN, UNITING WITH THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN EARLY CHILDHOOD AND LATER WITH THE METHODIST CHURCH IN WHICH SHE LIVED TO WHICH SHE WAS FAITHFUL THE REST OF HER LIFE. SHE WAS A CHARTER MEMBER OF THE O'DONNELL METHODIST CHURCH WHICH WAS ORGANIZED IN 1911 WITH 28 MEMBERS. HER HUSBAND WAS THE FIRST SUPERINTENDENT OF THE METHODIST SUNDAY SCHOOL. HE PASSED AWAY IN 1939. SINCE THEN SHE HAS LIVED IN THEIR HOME IN O'DONNELL UNTIL THE TIME OF HER GOING APRIL 10, 1947 AT THE AGE OF 88 YEARS, 2 MONTHS & 13 DAYS. SHE IS SURVIVED BY THE ABOVE NAMED CHILDREN, 30 GRAND CHILDREN, 51 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN, 7 GREAT-GREAT- GRANDCHILDREN AND A NUMBER OF NEPHEWS AND NIECES. HER FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED BY THE METHODIST CHURCH SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT THREE O'CLOCK BY HER PASTOR, REV. EDWARD H. CRANDALL AND REV. C.C. CALHOUN, PASTOR OF THE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE. SHE WAS LAID TO REST IN THE O'DONNELL CEMETERY. PALL BEARERS WERE ALBERT KOENINGER; B.L. DAVIS, CLINT WRIGHT, E.T. WELLS, CHARLEY WELLS, AND IRA HODGE; HONORARY: J.M. CHRISTOPHER, J.Y. EVERETT, JOE KIRKPATRICK, W.E. SIMMONS, T. A. WIMBERLEY AND C.L. DAVIS. OUR SINCERE SYMPATHY IS EXTENDED TO THE LOVED ONES AT THIS SAD HOUR. CARD OF THANKS WE WISH TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY OF EXPRESSING OUR SINCERE THANKS AND APPRECIATION TO OUR MANY FRIENDS AND KIND NEIGHBORS OF THIS COMMUNITY FOR THE ACTS OF LOVING SYMPATHY EXTENDED TO US AT THE TIME OF THE LOSS OF OUR DARLING MOTHER AND GRANDMOTHER. MAY GOD BLESS EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU IS IN OUR PRAYER. W.B. PHILLIPS AND WIFE; BULA SPENCER AND FAMILY LESTER PHILLIPS AND FAMILY; CLEO CARTER AND FAMILY JOY PHILLIPS AND FAMILY; FANNIE MARKS AND HUSBAND WILL PHILLIPS AND FAMILY; E. J. BEAN AND FAMILY MARGIE ROBINSON AND FAMILY
born 9 Feb 1890, died 5 Aug
Ada
Lea Phillips, daughter of Leander Gray Phillips (L.G.) and Sarah
Robert Hatton Anderson
Robert Hatton Anderson was a cowboy and worked on the cattle drives. We have been unable to learn much about him, but we know he moved to Redlands, CA most likely in the late 1920's and he died there in 1931. He and his wife Ada Lea Phillips had two children, Trinnie Margarte Anderson who died either as an infant of as a young child. (My mother has a copy of Trinnie's obit.) Second child was Margie Mae Anderson, born 25 Aug 1910.
Margie is Leander Phillips granddaughter. Margie Mae Anderson, daughter of Robert Hatton Anderson and Ada Lea Phillips. born 25 Aug 1910, died 1 Mar 1982. She married Melvin Benjamin Beddow, born 9 Mar 1910, died 17 Jun 1977.
This
picture was taken about 1915 near Odonnell, TX.
On the back of the photo it is written
"Little Mary." I hope we |
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