When Mahlon Phillips was born in 1827, in Indian Valley, Floyd, Virginia, United States, his father, Randolph L Phillips, was 30 and his mother, Mary Ann Cox, was 29. He married Rachael Montgomery on 30 May 1857, in Floyd, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Floyd, Floyd, Virginia, United States in 1850 and Virginia, United States in 1870. He registered for military service in 1861. He died on 17 June 1894, in Floyd, Virginia, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Indian Valley, Floyd, Virginia, United States.
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English, Dutch, North German, and Jewish (western Ashkenazic): patronymic from the personal name Philip . In North America, this surname has also absorbed cognates from other languages (see Philips ).
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