When Elizabeth Phillips was born on 5 November 1823, in Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, Benjamin Phillips, was 41 and her mother, Jane Davis, was 37. She married John Sylvanus Davis on 30 December 1850, in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1854 and lived in St Peter Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom in 1841. She died on 13 October 1906, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, 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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