Dorothy <drcanup@hotmail.com> said: "...our Grandfather Jeff [PHILLIPS] worked in a country store near Good Hope in the early 1900's, maybe 1916-1920. He also farmed in that community. Some neighbors of theirs were the O.D.King family, Folmars. Jeff had a brother named Joseph Alston Phillips who would be our Great-Uncle." >From Pike County Alabama Tomb Records (1972) compiled by the Pike Co. Historical Society [you really should purchase a copy of this excellent Pike Co. resource, available from the PCHS]: Goodhope Church (just north of Highway 29 a few miles west of Troy): Joseph A. PHILLIPS 23 Feb 1857--31 Aug 1923 [other PHILLIPS buried at Goodhope include Cephas Austin, Francis M., infant, J. M., John T., Mary, Mary Venie, and Viney Jane (SPIVEY) PHILLIPS] This Joseph is apparently your great-uncle. He appears with his brother Jefferson (your grandfather) in their mother's household in the 1870 census: 1870 Pike Co., AL p. 419, #233 Adaline PHILLIPS 48 GA James M. 20 AL Francis 18 AL John W. 15 AL Joseph A. 13 AL Sarah J. 11 AL Jefferson 08 AL Mary A. 06 AL This family also appears in Pike County ten years earlier: 1860 Pike Co., AL p. 22, #860 John PHILLIPS 43 GA Averilla 32 GA James M. 09 AL Francis M. 08 AL (male) Andrew J. 06 AL John W. 05 AL Joseph A. 03 AL Salie J. 01 AL (fem.) Also ten years earlier than that: 1850 Pike Co., AL (all on p. 185B): #669 Mary PHILIPS 59 GA Mary 26 AL Elisabeth 23 AL Aaron 32 AL James 20 AL #670 Z. PHILIPS 39 GA Elisabeth 35 GA James 12 AL Zachariah 10 AL John 08 AL William 05 AL Elvah (male) 03 AL #671 William PHILIPS 25 AL Ann 20 AL Mary 01 AL Elijah PHILIPS 26 AL #672 Henry TILLERY 32 AL Nancy 26 AL Alfred 06 AL James 04 AL Aaron 03 AL Henry 02 AL Alvy 01 AL #673 John PHILIPS 33 GA Averilla 21 SC Tredway 45 " Mary 22 " [note: According to published Pike Co. marriage records, John PHILIPS married Averilla A. PRINCE on 30 Dec 1850. I wonder if Tredway and Mary might not really be PRINCE's rather than PHILIPS--perhaps Averilla Adeline's father and sister. None of the other PHILLIPS in this family are known to have come from SC] There is a great deal of information available on this family in the publications of the Pike Co. Historical Society, including "Records Pertaining to Some Early Pike Countians" (vol. XXXIV, nos. 3&4), and the "Abstracts from General Estates Books (vols. XXXVII and XXXIX). These are available for purchase from the PCHS. John PHILLIPS died in 1867, leaving his widow Averilla Adaline (PRINCE) PHILLIPS to administer his estate. Heirs listed were his widow, and children James Madison, Francis Marion, Andrew Jackson, John Walton, Joseph Alston, Jefferson Davis, Sarah "Sallie" Josephine, and Mary Adaline (first two under 21, and last six under 14). Land in the estate (240 acres) lay in Sections 7, 28, 31, and 33, all in Township 10, Range 20 (near Goodhope Church). John's mother Mary PHILLIPS (of whose estate he was the administrator) was born ca 1791 in GA. She may have been the widow of James PHILLIPS--one James PHILLIPS married Mary HARRIS on 3 Dec 1804 in Oglethorpe Co., GA, but I have no proof that this was the Mary who later appears in Pike Co., AL. Mary's Pike Co. estate (she died ca 1862) reveals her children to have been Zachariah PHILLIPS, John PHILLIPS, Sarah PHILLIPS JARMON, Aaron PHILLIPS, Elijah G. PHILLIPS, Nancy PHILLIPS TILLERY, Mary PHILLIPS PRINCE, William PHILLIPS, Elizabeth PHILLIPS RYALS, and James PHILLIPS. I hope this helps--I'm not related to this family, but have collected data on it for a friend in Union Springs who descends from Alva TILLERY, son of Nancy (TILLERY) PHILLIPS and grandson of Mary PHILLIPS who died ca 1862. Best regards, Ron Head (Montgomery, AL) ronhead@knology.net Volunteer for Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness at http://raogk.rootsweb.com/index.html "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." ----- A. A. Milne, 1882-1956