This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Phillips, Bentley, Tinker, Hawkins, Babcock Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gFC.2ACI/1322 Message Board Post: I am tracing the James Burdick Phillips family line. He was born in New England, I believe Jefferson Co., NY, about 1818. He married Lois C. Bentley in Wakeman, Huron Co., Ohio in 1842. Together James and Lois had eight children. They moved from Ohio to Wisconsin about 1849. They were in Winnebago Co in 1850 and Waupaca Co in 1860. He served in the 17th Wisc. Infantry during the Civil War and before 1870 he moved his family to Dunn Co., WI. He and Lois were divorced there in 1882, after forty years of marriage. Lois Phillips died in Dunn Co. on Nov. 18, 1891 and James B. Phillips died in Weston, Dunn Co. on April 29, 1895. Because he left no will, his surviving children filed in probate court in 1905. Their children were as follows: Mary Lucrecia born c1844 in Ohio, married Tinker, died after 1905 when she & husband lived at South Superior, WI - William B. born c1846 in Ohio, married, died near Dayton, OH 1882 to 1905 - Angelina b. c1849 in Ohio, died before 1860 - James William born c1852 in Wisc, died after 1905 when he was living in Lakeville, WI - Aldis Carlton born 1853 in Wisc, married Emma Hawkins in Dunn Co, divorced c1888 in Dunn Co, disappeared, was alive in 1905 but residence was unknown to family - Evangeline (aka Eva) born c1856 in Wisc, married Stephen Babcock, died after 1905 when she was living in Dunn Co - Frank born c1859 in Wisc, died before 1870 - one child unaccounted for, divorce records say there were eight but I can only find seven.