Cullman Tribune - 7 May 1931
Mrs Elvira Cintela Phillips, wife of W F Phillips, died at their home in Cullman Monday, April 27th at about 11 o'clock pm, following a brief illness of about 48 hours, at the age of 72 years.

Mrs Phillips was born and reared in Carrol County, Georgia, was married to W F Phillips in 1873, and moved with her husband and children to Alabama in1989, settling in Blount county, and in 1904 the family moved to Cullman county and settled in the Berlin community, where they resided until 1918, when they moved to Cullman, where they had since resided in their happy home on the west side of our city.

To this union was born and reared eleven children, ten of whom with their father, survive the mother, as follows: Mrs Susa Armstrong, Cullman route three; Mrs Dida Armstrong, route eight; J T Phillips, Fairfield; Mrs Dilla Oaks, route three; J E Phillips, Birmingham; Mrs Rose Harris, route eight; Miss Maude Phillips, Mrs Mauda Haynes, Birmingham; Miss Eula Phillips and Olden David Phillips, Cullman, and one brother, J R Barrow of Waco, Ga, and a number of grand children.

For many years, Mrs Phillips had been a consecrated member of the Primitive Baptist church, and her beautiful christian life, attentive home life and consideration of her friends and neighbors together with her devotion to her children and husband was ever such as to hold the sweetest affection and love of those near and dear to her, and she will be missed by not only her long life companion of fifty-seven years and their children, but by her legions of friends.

The funeral services were conducted on Wednesday, April 29, from West Berlin Primitive Baptist church by Elder W D Green of Altoona, and her body laid to rest in West Berlin cemetery and the new grave covered with many beautiful floral offerings, as a tribute of love to her queenly life on earth.

More than fifty friends of the family from Birmingham were among the large concourse attending the funeral services.