Henry Phillips

Brief Life History of Henry

When Henry Phillips was born in 1853, in Tippah, Mississippi, United States, his father, Silas H Philips, was 43 and his mother, Joanna Stroup, was 39. He lived in Mississippi, United States in 1870. He died on 14 December 1912, at the age of 59, and was buried in Myrtle, Union, Mississippi, United States.

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Family Time Line

Silas H Philips
1810–1887
Joanna Stroup
1814–1892
Catherine Susan Phillips
1845–1925
Rachel Ellen Phillips
1848–1912
Ransan Roda Phillips
1850–1851
Julia Ellen Phillips
1852–1932
Henry Phillips
1853–1912

Sources (1)

  • Henry Philips in household of Silas Philips, "United States Census, 1870"

World Events (8)

1861

Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

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 ).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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