Elizabeth "Eliza" Ann Mildred Phillips

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The children of Eliza Chadwell Phillips and Thomas Crow Phillips are:

1. Nancy Jane, b 1836, married 1859 in TN - wife of Samuel F. Phillips, Odin, IL. (They were first cousins);

2. Martha E. - married Noah Wooters;

3. Mary Katherine, b Nov 10, 1842 in TN; d May 3, 1903 - married James M. Stroup in 1857. James was born 4/5/1832 in Blair County, PA; died Apr 23, 1900 buried in Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, KS;

4. Minerva T. - married Dr. J. J. Fyke, Odin, IL;

5. Sarah B. - married W. D. Farthing, attorney at law, Odin, IL;

6. George - died young at home;

7. William H. - Druggist in Iuka, IL - married Francis Summerville;

8. Samuel D. - Druggist in Odin, IL - married Jessie B. Lester;

9. John G. (Rev Jonathan Gideon Phillips), b June 12, 1857 in Centralia, IL; d Dec 18, 1934 in Commerce, Ottawa, OK - married Laura Johnson (aka Laura Alfretta Johnston) - moved and lived in Oklahoma.

They moved from Tennessee to Cairo, IL in 1848. Then to Odin, IL (in abt 1854) and Centralia, IL later. Cairo, IL was a "riches" scam, like modern day Las Vegas, but Cairo failed miserably. Tom and Eliza had to start over financially.

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This is interesting.  When did our direct ancestors come to Tennessee (before our ancestors Thomas Crow Phillips and wife Eliza Chadwell decided to move up to Illinois)? 

They were gentry people who suddenly decided to become frontier people. They came here to Tennessee during the late 1760s. Suddenly. Some came almost before it was even allowed by the Treaty of Paris signed after the Revolutionary War that gave all that part of the country west of the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River to the colonies (i.e. the Johnstons, DeGraffenrieds, and the Chadwell guy, and the Baker gal) The Phillips and Crows came a bit later after middle Tennessee was more settled. 

Land was cheap and many people received land "grants" for having served in the Revolutionary War, but all the land west of the Appalachian Mountains (the Smoky Mountains) was Indian land, and trails over the mountains were only indian trails, except for the trail through the mountains created by Daniel Boone farther north into what is known now as Kentucky. They were coming to unknown territory. They came straight from plantations and townhouses, mostly middle Virginia and easternmost North Carolina, to what? Building their own one room log homes, furniture, and hunting and growing their own food. Facing pissed off marauding Indians (because the British had JUST given the Indians' own land to the colonies!) Talk about what must have been culture shock!

Believe it or not, my other (Dutch) ancestors on my grandfather's side, who were following the Indian tribes farther north from New Jersey and New York to Pennsylvania through Ohio to Indiana, although also living the frontier life, at least would have been used to it because they had been born and raised in that lifestyle from the start. Some stopped and built up Pennsylvania. Some kept going. (The Deweeses and the VanDynes.)

My other ancestors came from easy wealthy lives to the harshest conditions imaginable. This website shows you what it was like, including pics.     http://www.tn4me.org/era.cfm/era_id/3

Picture the rich colonial "dandies" with fancy clothes and dresses doing this. Wow. I wish I could find some diaries or something that they kept of their migration and travel. I find nothing after our Swiss Landgrave DeGraffenried founded New Bern, NC wrote HIS experiences. (Fascinating) http://archive.org/stream/historyofdegraff00graf/historyofdegraff00.... See "The Landgrave's Own Story", beginning on page 74. (Translation made from deGrafifenried's German manuscript by Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Languages at the University of Illinois.) 

That Tennessee website above gives you an idea what they faced and likely were completely unprepared for, as THEY were born and raised in what was considered luxury at the time. What possessed them to do it? They must have had "grit", that's for sure!