When Minnie Eliza Phillips was born on 12 February 1870, in Murrayville, Morgan, Illinois, United States, her father, William Henry Phillips, was 35 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Garner, was 35. She married John Henderson Raffety on 9 October 1889, in Murrayville, Morgan, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Ashland, Cass, Illinois, United States in 1935 and Jacksonville Election Precinct, Morgan, Illinois, United States in 1940. She died in May 1960, in East St. Louis, St. Clair, Illinois, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Union Cemetery, Greenfield, Greene, Illinois, 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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