Wednesday's Child - Cora Lee Phillips 1866-1883

Cora Lee

Dau. of

L.M. & Kate

Phillips,

Died

July 14, 1883

Aged

17 Yrs 1 Mo 2 Ds

Just three months after losing their 8-year-old son, William Bushrod Phillips, the Phillips' family lost Cora Lee, the oldest daughter. She is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Denison, Grayson County, Texas.

[Source: findagrave.com, digital images (www.findagrave.com : accessed 23 Aug 2011), Cora Lee Phillips, Memorial #21373341, created by Gary Yawman, 5 Sep 2007.]

© 2011 Denise Spurlock

Wednesday's Child - William Bushrod Phillips 1874-1883

Wm. Bushrod

Son of

L.M. & Kate

Phillips

died

Apr. 12, 1883

aged

8 Yrs. 4 Ms. 2 Ds.

My first cousin twice removed, William Bushrod Phillips, the son of Levi M. and Kate (Yawman) Phillips, is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Denison, Grayson County, Texas.

[Source: findagrave.com, digital images (www.findagrave.com : accessed 23 Aug 2011), William Bushrod Phillips, Memorial #21373284, created by Gary Yawman, 5 Sep 2007.]

© 2011 Denise Spurlock

On This Day: August 21

1669: William Phillips, one of my maternal 7^th great-grandfather, son of James and Mary (maiden name unknown) Phillips, was born at Taunton, Massachusetts. He died 12 June 1705 and is buried at Fox Cemetery, Berkley, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

Digital photograph by Chris and Susanne Eliasen,
added to FindAGrave memorial on 8 October 2010

Sources:

1. Edgar H. Reed Esq., "Marriages, Births and Deaths of Taunton, Mass.," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, October 1862, 325; online database and images, New Eengland Historic and Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (www.american ancestors.org : accessed 19 Aug 2011).
2. findagrave.com, digital images (www.findagrave.com : accessed 19 Aug 2011), William Phillips, Memorial #20994544, created by Nareen, et al, 17 Aug 2007.

© 2011 Denise Spurlock

On This Day: August 15

1715: Benjamin Leonard and Hannah Phillips, my maternal 6th great-grandparents, were married at Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Source: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Vital Records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts to the Year 1850; Online database, American Ancestors (www.americanancestors.org : downloaded 11 Aug 2011), 240.]
 
Benjamin and Hannah had six children: Jemima, Lydia, Hannah, Benjamin, William, Caleb (my ancestor).
 

1870: William Lee Yawman, my maternal grandfather, son of Michael and Nancy (Burton) Yawman, was born in Missouri. His death certificate says he was born in Townman County; however, there has never been a county by that name in the state. He died on 21 January 1948, following a 15-day stay at the county hospital in Los Angeles, California, and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles County, California. [Source: Los Angeles County, California, death certificate no. 1659 (1948), William Lee Yawman; County of Los Angeles, Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, Norwalk.]

William L. Yawman 1870-1948
Digital photograph taken by Denise Spurlock,
[ADDRESS WITHHELD FOR PRIVATE USE], 2011.

© 2011 Denise Spurlock