Bio: Hardy H. Phillips, s/o Trussa Phillips, grnd/s of Elijah Phillips
Source: Memoirs of Georgia,Containing Historical Accounts of the State's Civil, Military, Industrial and Professional Interests, and Personal Sketches of Many of Its People, Vol. II, Atlanta, Georgia, The Southern Historical Association, 1895; Pg. 822;
Hardy H. Phillips, planter, Schley county, Georgia, was born in Randolph county, Ga., Dec. 10, 1850. His grandfather, Elijah Phillips, was an early settler of Georgia, a practical farmer, a soldier in the patriot army during the revolutionary war, and a Primitive Baptist minister. His father, Trussa Phillips, was a plain hard-working farmer in Randolph county, but moved to Macon county, where when Mr. Phillips was only six years old, both parents died. He was then bound out to Capt. Kinsey, from whom he received such harsh treatment that, when fourteen years old, he ran away from him and came to Schley county. Here he hired himself out for a year under an agreement that he was to work a portion of the year and go to school the remainder. The next year he went to work as the carpenter's trede, and continued at it until he married. Mr. Phillips was married Dec. 14, 1871, to Julia Ann, daughter of G.W. Marshall, a planter of Schley county. He and his wife then began life on a rented farm. By constant work and close economy they made and saved up by 1881 money enough to buy the fine 400-acre farm which has since been their home. Of the children born to them there are living: Jane, Rebecca, Eliza, George, and Trussa. Mr. Phillips and his wife are devoted Christians, and for the last three years Mr. Phillips has been in the ministry. He is a useful and highly esteemed member of the community in which he lives.
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Anne Westbrook 1/18/10