Eastman Times, Eastman
December 1883
Death of Mr. John Phillips, of Montgomery County
Through a private letter the news reaches us that on Sunday last, the 2d inst., Mr. John Phillips, one of the most worthy of the many good citizens of Montgomery County, died suddenly in good health while away from home visiting relatives in Emanuel County.
In the death of Mr. Phillips, Montgomery County loses a man remarkable in many respects. Standing, as he did in life, majestical and erect, six feet and six inches of stature, he seemed a healthy scion of that historic stock of the goodly olden time when "there were giants on the earth." His huge broad shoulders and swelling chest were surmounted by a massive head well crowned with gray hairs, and replete with the treasures of practical wisdom and knowledge. His face, which was full, fair and quite ruddy, was delicately set in a frame of short, thick beard, silvered by the frosts of some sixty-five winters. His eyes were grey, brilliant and piercing; his eyebrows heavy, shaggy and grizzled. He was a man of decided but generous sentiments, loving his friends and kindred cordially, and pitying his enemies, who were few, with his whole soul. He was known as the friend and helper of the poor and needy.
Belonging nominally to no religious order, but honoring example above precept, and substance above show, his life and character did devoted and continual homage at the altar of true, vital religion. The community in which he lived may wait long before they look upon his like again.
He leaves a wife, aged and afflicted, with whom we sympathize.
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John and Mary Phillips had no children of their own, but reared two: Christopher Columbus "Lum" Warnock and Nancy B. Gillis, wife of Wiley B. Phillips.
December 1883
Death of Mr. John Phillips, of Montgomery County
Through a private letter the news reaches us that on Sunday last, the 2d inst., Mr. John Phillips, one of the most worthy of the many good citizens of Montgomery County, died suddenly in good health while away from home visiting relatives in Emanuel County.
In the death of Mr. Phillips, Montgomery County loses a man remarkable in many respects. Standing, as he did in life, majestical and erect, six feet and six inches of stature, he seemed a healthy scion of that historic stock of the goodly olden time when "there were giants on the earth." His huge broad shoulders and swelling chest were surmounted by a massive head well crowned with gray hairs, and replete with the treasures of practical wisdom and knowledge. His face, which was full, fair and quite ruddy, was delicately set in a frame of short, thick beard, silvered by the frosts of some sixty-five winters. His eyes were grey, brilliant and piercing; his eyebrows heavy, shaggy and grizzled. He was a man of decided but generous sentiments, loving his friends and kindred cordially, and pitying his enemies, who were few, with his whole soul. He was known as the friend and helper of the poor and needy.
Belonging nominally to no religious order, but honoring example above precept, and substance above show, his life and character did devoted and continual homage at the altar of true, vital religion. The community in which he lived may wait long before they look upon his like again.
He leaves a wife, aged and afflicted, with whom we sympathize.
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John and Mary Phillips had no children of their own, but reared two: Christopher Columbus "Lum" Warnock and Nancy B. Gillis, wife of Wiley B. Phillips.
Eastman Times, Eastman
December 1883
Death of Mr. John Phillips, of Montgomery County
Through a private letter the news reaches us that on Sunday last, the 2d inst., Mr. John Phillips, one of the most worthy of the many good citizens of Montgomery County, died suddenly in good health while away from home visiting relatives in Emanuel County.
In the death of Mr. Phillips, Montgomery County loses a man remarkable in many respects. Standing, as he did in life, majestical and erect, six feet and six inches of stature, he seemed a healthy scion of that historic stock of the goodly olden time when "there were giants on the earth." His huge broad shoulders and swelling chest were surmounted by a massive head well crowned with gray hairs, and replete with the treasures of practical wisdom and knowledge. His face, which was full, fair and quite ruddy, was delicately set in a frame of short, thick beard, silvered by the frosts of some sixty-five winters. His eyes were grey, brilliant and piercing; his eyebrows heavy, shaggy and grizzled. He was a man of decided but generous sentiments, loving his friends and kindred cordially, and pitying his enemies, who were few, with his whole soul. He was known as the friend and helper of the poor and needy.
Belonging nominally to no religious order, but honoring example above precept, and substance above show, his life and character did devoted and continual homage at the altar of true, vital religion. The community in which he lived may wait long before they look upon his like again.
He leaves a wife, aged and afflicted, with whom we sympathize.
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John and Mary Phillips had no children of their own, but reared two: Christopher Columbus "Lum" Warnock and Nancy B. Gillis, wife of Wiley B. Phillips.
December 1883
Death of Mr. John Phillips, of Montgomery County
Through a private letter the news reaches us that on Sunday last, the 2d inst., Mr. John Phillips, one of the most worthy of the many good citizens of Montgomery County, died suddenly in good health while away from home visiting relatives in Emanuel County.
In the death of Mr. Phillips, Montgomery County loses a man remarkable in many respects. Standing, as he did in life, majestical and erect, six feet and six inches of stature, he seemed a healthy scion of that historic stock of the goodly olden time when "there were giants on the earth." His huge broad shoulders and swelling chest were surmounted by a massive head well crowned with gray hairs, and replete with the treasures of practical wisdom and knowledge. His face, which was full, fair and quite ruddy, was delicately set in a frame of short, thick beard, silvered by the frosts of some sixty-five winters. His eyes were grey, brilliant and piercing; his eyebrows heavy, shaggy and grizzled. He was a man of decided but generous sentiments, loving his friends and kindred cordially, and pitying his enemies, who were few, with his whole soul. He was known as the friend and helper of the poor and needy.
Belonging nominally to no religious order, but honoring example above precept, and substance above show, his life and character did devoted and continual homage at the altar of true, vital religion. The community in which he lived may wait long before they look upon his like again.
He leaves a wife, aged and afflicted, with whom we sympathize.
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John and Mary Phillips had no children of their own, but reared two: Christopher Columbus "Lum" Warnock and Nancy B. Gillis, wife of Wiley B. Phillips.
Gravesite Details
Although his tombstone says he died on the 1st of December, his obituary states Sunday, the 2nd (the 1st was on Saturday).
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