Elizabeth Phillips

According a to great-granddaughter:

"I wish I knew more about my great-grandmother, Elizabeth, who, at the age of thirty-three, after twelve years of married life, was left a widow with six children to raise on that rocky farm along the river cliffs."

"Fortunately, Elizabeth Moss was of fighting stock. In 1760 her English born grandfather had been captain of the Goochland County Militia in Virginia and commissioned a major in 1770. He had fought the British in the Revolutionary War and died from wounds received in battle. As a girl, Elizabeth had traveled with her family by covered wagon, on horseback and afoot, the seven hundred miles which lay between Goochland County, Virginia, and Fayette County, Kentucky."

"Now that her man was gone, she was a lone woman against the primeval. It is not surprising that she grew stern and sometimes sharp of speech. Nor is it strange that to her the Lord was an ever-present help. My father loved to tell how, when a child, she would take him with her when she went into the woods to pray. There, he said, she would kneel down and pray aloud, long and fervently. She would pray until she shouted triumphantly or sometimes could only weep."

A Measure Filled, the life of Lena Madesin Phillips, drawn from her autobiography by Lisa Sergio

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Spouse:

 William Phillips (1775 - 1815)*

Children:

 William M Phillips (1802 - 1886)*

 Henry Harrison Phillips (1812 - 1891)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Megee-Phillips Cemetery Hanly Jessamine County Kentucky, USA

Created by: Karen Caldwell Record added: Apr 29, 2012 Find A Grave Memorial# 89269632