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Hello Families and Friends.
          This one is for our Parents, Robert L Phillips and Flora Bell Pool Phillips. I want you all to know that when I started this project, I thought I would give it a year or so and then I would be done; but, like a strong standing tree that grows and continues to grow, there is not a bottom or a top of this tree, just branches and more branches and I love it. I have been able to put three hundred names in our tree and I do not have the most of you. That's all right I am still working on it all.
          I will have more on my Momma and Daddy than I have for anyone else because I lived at their house and I got my share of things, Like memories, Pictures and lots of love. My Momma and Daddy were married in Daisy, Oklahoma on June 14,1919. According to the record they married at her parents home (John Lemule Pool and Mary Ophelia Linscott Pool). They both grew up in around Atoka Oklahoma. Some say they thought they were following the crops and I guess maybe Dad did after he was run over and was no longer able to work. But at one time Daddy was a brakeman for the Katie R.R., and Flora Mae says he worked at a printing press in Frederick Oklahoma until I was born. I was suppose to have been three weeks old when we moved to Calhoun. So my memories can only be talk. I heard about momma and Aunt Dora being in the tent when Grandpa killed himself. I remember her telling me that Daddy was a good man, but he got mad at her he would go off and pout for about 6 or 8 hrs and then he would be over it. And my thinking is that Daddy's and Mothers family were all woodsmen. Every place I have searched of where all our ancestors lived and worked it always go back to the coal mines and lumber mills. So I think they were woodsmen and they followed the mines to supply the lumber for building the shafts. Back in the early 1900 Calhoun was a booming coal mining town. Uncle Frank and Aunt Dora moved there first and then Daddy followed During World War 2. I was not very old but I remember that Dad was worried that he might have to go to the war and he did not know what we would do with out him. My Dad did believe it was a mans world. I am not even dumb enough to say what he might say if he could see us now, and maybe he is watching us still and can't wait to tell us about it. My parents, as for as I can say, where the meanest parents in the world until I turned about 30 and had kids of my own. My Mom and Dad got more intelligent every day. Every thing was happening that they had warned me about when I was growing up. Now as old as I am I know it was wisdom and it only comes with time and age and a lot of mistakes and retakes. For a long time I thought that they had set me up for all this stuff, but as time goes on you can not blame any one but yourself for not listening. I guess my mom and dad was as happy as any married couple in that time frame. Women grew up and were taught that they were a mans piece of Property and they were to obey him like she would her father if she was still under his care. Our Mothers had no options. It was get married, raise a family, work like a beaver, and keep it all done. A Mans job was sun to sun a woman's job was never done.
          I love my family dearly, but I could never walk in my Mothers shoes. Her light still stands like the Eiffel Tower, Bright and awesome, she has been gone from us it seams a lifetime, "I say You go Girl, It is your time to shine." Dad I love you and miss you so much that I promise on my life that I will not run from you and circle you and the house three times before you catch me and never again will I stomp down the weeds instead of pulling them. I know for a fact that the last years of their lives was not easy for them; but they hung in there together all those many years. Mom and Dad You made me Proud. Here goes the list of Children that were Blessed to have Robert and Flora to call Mom and Dad:

1.Margaret Ophelia Phillips      b        1919 d        1919?
2.Warren Leroy Phillips          b        1921 d        1996
3.Flora Mae Phillips             bOct. 23,1923
4.John Wiley Phillips            bJune 8,1925
5.Bobby Joe Phillips             bAug. 22,1927 dSep. 20,1931
6.Ophelia Dora Phillips          bOct. 16,1929
7.Gracie Lorene Phillips         bJuly 22,1932,          1999
8.Ruth Ann Phillips              bNov. 8,1934 dOct.    1999
9.Robert Lafayette Phillips Jr. bFeb. 3,1938
10.Martha Lou Phillips            bJan. 13,1940
11.Billy Bob Phillips             bAug. 7,1942
12.Sarah Edna Florence Phillips   bAug. 11,1944
13.Thomas Ervin Phillips          bMar. 7,1946

          Mom and dad lived into their 70's and they now rest in peace at the Rose Hill Cemetery in Arlington, Texas. It was daddy's wish to be buried there in Texas where he was born 1896. Momma always said to Dad where ever you go I go - so that is why they are there instead of here. There probably are some mistakes here because the list was not all accurate. The reason I know that, is my birthday was wrong. I can stand your correction so feel free to do that when I do. Mr. Deleplank told me how to spell his name. Did I do it Right this time? Well enjoy your trip thru the lives and loves of My Mom and Dad and their descendents. Blu

             1813 Wiley Blunt Daniel + Julia Ann Barnett 1817
                                      =
Francis E. Phillips + Mary Emaline <Daniel> Phillips 1844
                    =
              1862 * Margret Jane Phillips
              1860 * Wiley M. Phillips + Mary Ann <Kelsey> 1862
                                        =
                                  1888 * Francis Marion (Frank) Phillips + Dora Chitwood
                                  1890 * Mary Elizabeth <Phillips> + Josh Impson
                                  1895 * Irene Tempe <Phillips> + Bruce Hollingsworth
                                  1896 * Robert Lafayette Phillips + Flora Bell <Pool>
                                  1900 * John Henry (Ace) Phillips + Geneva <Coffman>

[Bob}------------------------ Robert Lafayette Phillips + Flora Bell <Pool> ---- ----
                                                      =
                 * Margaret Ophelia
                 * Warren Leroy + Ruby
                 * Flora Mae + Charles Shook
                 * John Wiley + Wilma <Hutching>
                 * Bobby Joe
                 * Ophelia Dora + Gerald Dean Collins
                 * Gracie Lorene + Hershel Slone
                 * Ruth Ann + Pete Quintana
                 * Robert Lafayette Jr. + Sandy
                 * Martha Lou + Roland Harris
                 * Billy Bob + Gene A. Sanders
                 * Sarah Edna + Ed Neese
                 * Thomas Ervin + Bonnie

Book 4, Page 14:
Robert L. Phillips, aged 21 of Jumbo, Oklahoma, married Miss Flora Bell Pool, aged 18 of Jumbo, Oklahoma.
W. H. Goss, Baptist Minister of Daisy, Oklahoma, married the couple June 4, 1919 at home of Bride.
Witnesses: W. M. Rush and J. W. Swearingin, both of Jumbo, Oklahoma.

Book 2, Page 505:
B. A. Hurd, aged 46 of Zoraya, Oklahoma, married Miss Sarah Florence Pool, aged 21 of Zoraya, Oklahoma.
J. H. Nelson, Justice of the Peace of Zoraya, Oklahoma, married the couple June 22, 1915 at Zoraya, Oklahoma.
Witnesses: W. A. Nelson and Arthur Pool, both of Zoraya, Oklahoma.
(Mom’s sister)

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1910 Pushmataha County, Oklahoma 1910 Census.
Sheet 6B (p. 304), S. D. 4, E. D. 271, 2nd May 1910, Judson R. Butler, enumerator, Kosoma Township.#122/#122:
Phillips, Wiley, head, 50, Illinois, Laborer, Sawmill.
Mary, wife, 49, Arkansas
Francis M., son, 20, Oklahoma.
Mary A., daughter, 17, Oklahoma.
Irene T., daughter, 15, Texas.
Robert L., son, 13, Texas.
Acie, son, 10, Texas.
Minie, daughter, 2, Oklahoma.
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1920 Pushmataha County, Oklahoma 1920 Census:
E. D. 234, Kosoma Township by Ralph R. Dockum, Enumerator, Page 42, 21
January 1920: #104/#107:
HURD, Biship A., head, 53, Arkansas, Sawyer, Sawmill.
Sarah, wife, 19, Oklahoma
Biship O., son, 15, Oklahoma
Mary Lee, daughter, 2 3/12, Oklahoma
Minnie L., daughter, 4/12, Oklahoma

Living 2 houses down from Biship A. Hurd are: #106/#109:
POOL, J. L., head, 52, Arkansas, Laborer, Sawmill.
Mary O., wife, 49, Arkansas
Arthur W., son, 28, Oklahoma
Thomas C., son, 12, Oklahoma
Irvin N., son, 5, Oklahoma
PRUETT, Jess, boarder, 28, widow, Laborer, Sawmill
WOODS, Frank, boarder, 18, Laborer, Sawmill
(Mom’s family)