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  As time goes bye we often sit and wonder where it all went. We do not feel like we are getting any where, but we are.  If you will look around you for more than a minute you will probably think about tomorrow or yesterday, and have you noticed that yesterday will always be gone, and tomorrow will never get here.  So we have to learn from yesterday, embrace today and plan for tomorrow.  I believe this is what our forefathers did so we could have the freedom and the kind of life most of us enjoy today.  We all know that major highways and those new chevy’s did not just fall out of the sky.  Some had to work long and hard for all these modern day things and I think our Phillips Family played a major part.  So today we are going to travel back into time and learn about our family of yesterday.  All the information is not exactly clear to us, but we do know enough that we can tell, that will keep some memories alive for days and years to come.  Based on records I can find this is a story of my impressions.

  From the East came our GGrandmother after losing our GGrandfather in the civil war.  She was very young when she married Francis E Phillips, not much more than a child herself, and did not have any idea she would end up like a lot of women did during a war.  Mary Emaline Daniel was born in 1844 in Illinois.  She married Our GGrandfather Francis E Phillips Dec 22, 1858.  From that union there were two children.  Wiley M. and Margaret Elizabeth. 

  Francis joined the civil war in Macoupin County Illinois in August 1862.  He was a Private in Company “E” 122nd Regiment Illinois Volunteers.  See "roster" for Company E below; with brother in law Elijah G. Steeley,  who may have joined with him.  
Francis died of unknown causes in Trenton, Tenn. in October 1862.  

  Mary Emaline was left to raise the children now by her self.  We do not know for sure but according to the documents the children were put in the guardianship of William Querry.  All these documents were “attested to” by someone (possibly her father and another) because she could not read or write, as most were marked with a X.  She was given a pension and later on she got a raise for the children.  In less than three years she would have lost a husband, the father of her children and the Person that she wanted to spend the rest of her life with.  Can any of us imagine going through that before you were twenty years old.  It was a good thing that she had her Mother and Father around.  I can imagine how sorry that they would feel for their daughter. 

As for as Francis’s Parents at this time we have not been able to find out anything about them.  We know that her parents where Wiley Blunt Daniel and Julia Ann Barnett/Burnett. She was borne in 1817 in Alabama.  He was borne in 1813.  By the time frame we believe that thru Julia comes our Native America Bloodline.  We think she was on the Trail of tears that started in 1831 and continued through 1839.  We have not proven this yet but we think she was with the first group of people that came from Ala. on the Trail Of tears. We think Maybe she came with one of her children. 

  After the death of our GGrandfather, Mary Emaline was left to raise his two children, and we know that in 1867 Mary Emaline married again to a Hoover (Joseph N.), and they went on and had several children of their own, creating yet another family tree.  According to the marriage license she was married to Mr. Hoover by the same Minister that married her to Francis (~Isaac~ Daniel – possibly a relative).  It was not long after that they moved to Indian Terr. 

  Our Grandfather was Wiley M. Phillips {Mcgae} and he married our Grandmother (Mary Ann Kelsey).  I am now in the process of finding out more about her.  Wiley M. was borne in Morgan County Illinois May 9 1860.  Mary Ann was born about 1862.  They had several children.  We are the grandchildren and the Descendents of these People and I can say I am proud of who I am and where I came from.  Our Grandfather killed himself sometime after 1925 in Daughtry Okla.  As the story goes, he was told that he was going to die and I guess maybe he just did not want to wait.  He was going and he was not going alone, and I think maybe he wanted to take grandma with him, and it was not her time to go. The story was told to me that they were in a tent and he complained about the flaps being up and he was cold and as grandma got up to close the flap, he fired the bullet and it went passed her head and broke a rope on the flap.  The next bullet had his name on it.  My mother told me that she and Aunt Dora (Bless their Souls I miss them dearly) were in the tent with him when he turned the gun on himself.  They were both scared to death and scarred for life.  My Momma could not stand to hear a firecracker go off for all the days of her life.  So it was quite at our house on Independence Day.  I am one of the younger children of the Phillips clan and I never met my Grandfather or Grandmother so I can only tell what was told me.  I would like to know if there are other thoughts and theories out there.  I would like to hear them all and then we can come to our own conclusion.  I think they were working at a sawmill for some time, and the Hoover family was still with them even after our fathers and mothers were borne.  They must have lived close to each other, for they seamed to visit back and forth all over Indian Terr. and back in those days traveling was not a luxury.  So we all know a short trip would take up a lot of times.  Perhaps they met each other on the road somewhere and had picnics.  I think maybe they went to the county fairs for fun.  Buying Material for making a new dress would have been the highlight for many such trips. Even going somewhere to have your picture made.  Some times they probably went to church and Sunday school and sang songs and worshiped under a old oak tree. Perhaps they went to the old swimming hole for a swim on a Sunday afternoon.  I am sure they lived side by side with the Indians and enjoyed each others company when they were not fighting each other.  Dad learned a lot from the Indians like weaving Chair bottoms, How to find water and food.  And I must say he was pretty good at it - not a one of us starved to death, even though sometimes we thought we would.  Wiley and Mary, we can only assume, had a good life and we hope that life was not to hard on them.  Considering the times and places we can all imagine what was going on in their minds. 

  We as parents in these days know how tough it is raise our children and give them the right upbringing.  These are the same feeling that have always been on the top of the scale for our children.  Our wish is that each generation will have a better life than the one before.  I believe we are doing this because as we look at our children, they have nicer homes than we do and nicer cars than we do and we say Thank you God.  But I also wonder what is happening to our beautiful country.  It frightens me like it must have our parents and grandparents as we were growing up and we did not turn out too bad. Did We? 

 

 

     

 

 

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Macoupin County History - Illinois    CHAPTER XI.    CIVIL WAR.    

PATRIOTIC MACOUPIN AND HER SPLENDID RECORD IN THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES -

FIRST REGIMENT IN ILLINOIS ORGANIZED AT CARLINVILLE IN RESPONSE TO LINCOLN'S

FIRST CALL FOR TROOPS -

HISTORY OF THE BRAVE MEN WHO WENT TO THE FRONT -

FULL ROSTER OF THOSE WHO SERVED FROM THIS COUNTY.

 

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ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SECOND INFANTRY.

This infantry was commanded by General John I. Rinaker. All of this

regiment with the exception of Company C was organized at Camp Palmer,

Carlinville, August, 1862, where it was drilled for a month and mustered

in September 4. About the 6th of October, 1862, the regiment was ordered to

report to General Dodge at Columbus, Kentucky. It went on duty at Trenton,

Tennessee, where Colonel Rinaker was placed in command of the post.

November 12, the right wing of the regiment Companies A, D and F was

ordered to Humboldt, Tennessee, where, with a part of the Fifty-fourth Illinois

and Seventh Wisconsin Battery, it constituted the force on duty at that

place under command of Colonel Rinaker. December 16, 1862, a large force

of mounted infantry under command of the enterprising and daring rebel,

General Forrest, had crossed the Tennessee river near Clifton for the purpose

of tearing up the railroad and destroying the bridges between Jackson, Tennessee,

and Columbus, Kentucky, while a cavalry force under the rebel general,

Van Dorn, was moving from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, to attack and destroy

the Mississippi Central Railroad from near Jackson, Tennessee, to Holly Springs,

Mississippi. The design of these operations was to frustrate and prevent the

movement of the Army of the Tennessee under General Grant, then moving

by the inland route to capture Vicksburg. General Grant's army depended for

its supplies upon the line of railroad between Columbus, Kentucky, via Jackson,

Tennessee, and Holly Springs, Mississippi, and thence south as he advanced.

There were at all the stations along the line of road small bodies of troops,

most of them infantry. These detachments at any of the points were not of

sufficient strength to repel an attack. General Sullivan commanded the district

of Jackson, Tennessee, including the troops from the Kentucky line toward

Columbus to Bolivar, Tennessee, and as Jackson was at the junction of

the Memphis, Charleston and Mississippi Central Railroad Company's said

line, on which supplies must move, and as there was a large accumulation of

military stores at Jackson and as Forrest had defeated and captured the cavalry

force belonging to that district at Lexington, on the i6th of December,

General Sullivan ordered all the effective troops on the line to move at once

to Jackson. On the I7th Colonel Rinaker, therefore moved his command, consisting

of the right wing of the One Hundred and Twenty-second Illinois,

four companies of Fifty-fourth Illinois, and half of the Seventh Wisconsin

Battery, from Humboldt to Jackson, Tennessee, where the rest of the One

Hundred and Twenty-second arrived the same day. On the night of December

2", with a part of the Thirty-ninth Iowa, Fiftieth Indiana and one-half of

the Seventh Wisconsin Battery, all under Colonel Dunham, were ordered to

move out from Trenton to intercept Forrest's command on its return from the

vicinity of Columbus, Kentucky, to the Tennessee river. After a forced march

they reached Huntingdon, Tennessee, on the night of December 29. The next

day additional troops arrived and General Sullivan assumed command. Nine

companies of the One Hundred and Twenty-second, with the rest of Colonel

Dunham's command took the advance to intercept Forrest's command, which

was moving around to the south and east of Huntingdon, seeking to avoid

righting and to recross the Tennessee river. Two days later, December 31, the

battle of Parker's Cross Roads took place. The loss to the One Hundred and

Twenty-second was one officer and twenty-two men killed, two officers and

fifty- four men wounded. At this battle Colonel Rinaker was severely wounded.

Here they captured seven pieces of artillery and five hundred prisoners. Major

James F. Chapman, Captain Balfour Cowen and Lieutenant W. W. Freeman,

quartermaster of the regiment, and sixty enlisted men sick in the hospital at

Trenton, were captured by the enemy under General Forrest. It moved on

the 17th of February, 1863, to Corinth; on the 25th was engaged at Town

Creek, thence to Saulsbury in June ; thence to luka in October, Colonel Rinaker

commanding the post at each place ; thence it moved to Eastport, thence

to Padticah and on the igth of January, 1864, to Cairo. Companies E, H,

and K were engaged in defending Paducah against Forrest's attack, on the 24th

of March repelling three attacks on Fort Anderson. The regiment moved to

Memphis and La Grange and was assigned to the First Brigade. Third Division,

Sixteenth Corps, commanded by A. J. Smith. In the battle of Tupelo, on

the 1 4th of July, the regiment lost Captain Josiah Burroughs and nine men

killed and thirty-three wounded. It was engaged in the campaign in Missouri

after Price; left St. Louis for Nashville and engaged in the battle of Nashville,

December 15 and 16, capturing four pieces of artillery and a battle flag

by the skirmish line, commanded by Major Chapman; February 18, 1865, embarked

for New Orleans ; thence to Dauphin Island, Alabama ; on the 23d

moved with the fleet up Fish river to Dorley's Landing, and thence to Spanish

Fort. Colonel Rinaker was in command of the First Brigade; was engaged in the

charge of the gth on Fort Blakely, losing twenty killed and wounded.

The regiment was mustered out of service July 15 and received final payment and

discharge at Camp Butler, Illinois, August 4, 1865.

This was one of the best of the Illinois regiments and its colonel was breveted

brigadier for meritorious service.

Colonel, John I. Rinaker, promoted brevet brigadier general, March 13, 1865;

lieutenant colonel, James F. Drish; major, James E. Chapman; quartermaster,

William W. Freeman ; surgeons marines, W. Seaman, William A. Knox;

first assistant surgeon, John P. Mathews ; chaplain, John H. Austin ;

non-commissioned staff, sergeant majors, John N. McMillan, James W. Gardner;

quartermaster sergeants, Hugh Colton, John H. Cherry, John Craggs ;

commissary sergeant, John C. Miller ; hospital steward, Daniel Wise ; principal

musicians, George Lee, James P. Lair, Martin Woods, David Coon.

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Company E.

Captains, Baxter Haynes, Abraham C. Hulse; first lieutenants, Benjamin

V. Carey, Thornton G. Capps; second lieutenant, Dennis Springer; first sergeant,

Thornton G. Capps ; sergeants, James Burlison, John M. Taylor, John A.

Lee, Jacob C. Wood ; corporals, Enoch S. Richards, John B. Clevenger, William

B. Moore, John Swift, Daniel Chapman, John W. Young, Jonathan L. Jennings ;

Musicians, James P. Lair, John W. Williams.

Privates, William J. Ashlock, Caleb Adcock, Laban C. Arnold, David M.

Angelo, Joshua M. Baldwin, James W. Baldwin, Jeremiah L. Baldwin, Le

Roy Brigendine, Samuel Bridges, Joseph M. Brigendine, Joseph Crawford, Jesse

H. Crawford, John D. Crawford, Isaac X. Clevenger, Joshua B. Clevenger, M. B.

Clevenger, Samuel Covey, William C. Carr, Lytle B. Chowning, Jesse M. Cheney,

James T. Courtney, John W. Crum, Thomas H. L. Evans, A. C. England, John

England, Robert Edwards, William Edwards, J. C. Grimmett, Andrew J. Hogan,

John T. Horton, Layborn Hunt, Robert T. Hunt, Jefferson G. Hunt, George

W. Harford, James M. Hayes, William H. Hewitt, 'Emanuel M. Kimball,

Ezekiel Knight, James M. Laird, Samuel Laird, William B. Lloyd, John W.

Laycock, James Murray, Andrew J. Myers, William M. McLaughlin, James B.

McGinnis, Samuel M. Piper, Francis Phillips, William Price, Lewis Redman,

George W. Rice, Edmond Richards, Elijah G. Steeley, Dennis Springer, James

W. Steeley, William T. Swift, Jesse Stennitt, William J. Stennitt, William W.

Tosh, William H. Thompson, William J. Vance, Isaac N. Vance.

Recruits, James J. Adcock, J. C. Clevenger, Robert Orr. John R. Ray. John

W. Richards, Stacey Thomas, Robert B. Walker.

 

LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 977.383 Wl5h v.1 1911 Illinois Historical Survey

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Thanks to Karen Steely <kmsteely@earthlink.net> for the following information. 
(Also posted on Ancestry.com.)  (Most of these "links" will take you there.  (Use your browser's "BACK" to return here.) 

 

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     /Francis Phillips b: BEF. 1841 d: 31 OCT 1862
Wiley M. Phillips b: BET. 1859 - 1860 d: AFT. 1878
     |                               /Joseph Daniel b: ABT. 1730
     |                       /Jeremiah Daniel , Sr. b: ABT. 1752
     |               /Jeremiah Daniel , Jr. b: BET. 1777 - 1778 d: BET. 1850 - 1855
     |       /Wiley Blunt Daniel b: 1813 d: BET. 1870 - 1880
     |       |       \??? Hogue?? b: BEF. 1791 d: AFT. 1815
     \Mary Emaline Daniel b: SEP 1844 d: AFT. 1910
             \Julia Ann Barnett b: ABT. 1817 d: AFT. 1880
                     \Elizabeth b: BET. 1796 - 1797 d: AFT. 1850

 

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