NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11181 MARION CO – FELIX GRUNDY PHILLIPS – Phillips, Kavanaugh, Penick, Irwin, Frye, Berryman #1181: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume V, Battle-Perrin-Kniffin, 4th Ed. Marion Co. FELIX GRUNDY PHILLIPS deceased) was born September 12, 1807, in what is now Marion Cunty, Ky., but at that time was embraced in Washington County. He was the youngest of a large family, children of William and Margaret Phillips. William Phillips, in company with three elder brothers reached Kentucky in 1779, coming from Maryland by way of Pennsylvania; they stopped about one year in Allegheny County, then came on to Kentucky, floating down the Ohio River to the falls at Louisville. After considerable delay, they settled on Hardin’s Creek, and built Hardin’s Creek Fort, about eighteen miles west of Sandusky’s Fort, their nearest neighbors. From this place William Phillips moved in 1800 to a farm near Lebanon, where he continued to live till March 22, 1834, when he died, aged seventy-five years. F. G. Phillips received as good an education as the schools of the county there afforded, and after leaving school studied civil engineering and was for twenty years county surveyor of Marion County, at a time when that office was of great importance on account of the careless system of land warrants and entry of public lands then prevailing in this State. In this capacity he became universally known and respected throughout the county, no less for the capable execution of the duties of the office, than for his genial peace-loving disposition. This spirit combined with that sturdy solid base of his character, enabled him to amicably adjust many serious differences arising from confusion of title and boundary lines. During his entire manhood, Mr. Phillips was a consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, faithful in the discharge of every duty imposed by that obligation; without sectarianism, abounding in genuine Christian charity. He was widely known and honored among the ministry of the Louisville Conference, possessing in an unstinted degree the affection and confidence of the acquaintance of his youth – the late Bishop H. H. Kavanaugh – between whom and Mr. Phillips there existed for long years, until broken by death, a friendship without alloy, in all its relations mutually pleasant and profitable. On the 22nd of May, 1834, Mr. Phillips was married to Frances Moss Penick, daughter of Edward Penick, Sr., who had emigrated from Virginia in 1810, and at that time lived near Branfordville, on Lebanon road, living thee until his death in 1840. Of this union there were born twelve children: Ann Eliza, who died in early youth; Mary, now Mrs. Irwin, a prominent teacher in Knoxville, Tenn.; Edward, who studied medicine, dying in 1872; J. Howard, who served through the war in the Tenth Kentucky Federal Volunteers, was severely wounded in the battle of Chickamauga, rejoined his regiment after recovery, was honorably discharged in 1865, and died in Minnesota in September, 1868; Lettie, who died in girlhood in 1862; Nannie, who died in 1876; Fannie, now Mrs. Frye, of Hustonville, Ky.; Agnes, now Mrs. Berryman, of Owensboro, Ky.; F. G. Jr., a farmer in Marion County; Buford, a merchant in Knoxville, Tenn.; Charles M., attorney at law, Lebanon, Ky.; Capitola, the youngest, who died in early womanhood in 1884. Mr. Phillips became owner of his father-in-law’s farm, removing to it from Lebanon in the same year and continued there to live, dispensing a generous hospitality to all who came within his gates, until his death, September 12, 1875. Mrs. Phillips survived her husband nearly eight years, and died in June, 1883, loved and mourned by all who knew her. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH Archives:http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kyresearch