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Phillips Graveyard

     This graveyard is not on the Jefferson County road map. Section 19 is transversed by the Dry Fork Road. Obedience Oliver, owned land in the NW 1/4 NE 1/4 Section 19 in the E1/2 of the NW 1/4. She may have been a sister-in-law to John Phillips. The note in the DAR transcriptions is in error is saying that Samuel & Obedience Oliver came from North Carolina in 1828. Samuel died in Rockingham Co., N.C., in 1843. Obedience likely did come to Jefferson Co. in 1845.

Oliver, Obedience, w of Samuel Oliver, Mar. 11, 1801-Mar. 20, 1864

Phillips, John, Mar. 17, 1768-Dec. 18, 1858.
[Editor's note: from the census it appears the year of John's birth is in error.
It is more like 1798.]

Phillips, Mary J. dau of J. & M. Phillips,, Apr 8, 1831-Apr. 15,1850

Phillips, Eliza Jane, dau of J& M. Phillips, Nov. 4, 1822-Mar. 8, 1841

Phillips, Abigill, (sic) dau of of J& M. Phillips, May 16, 1816-May 5, 1846