Mary Cecilia Tippins (Underwood)

Philip Tippins joined Captain Abner Hickman's Company, Col. Roebuck's Regiment, South Carolina Militia on August 15, 1781. He served as a Private and was honorably discharged on February 1, 1782. He was granted bounty land for his service. He married his wife Marry Tippins (Underwood) in abt. 1784. Phillip and his wife Mary lived and died in Tattnall County, Georgia. Phillip Tippins died in December of 1826. Mary Tippins (Underwood) died in 1804.

From "Find a Grave" https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68323094/phillip-tippins The Jonathan B. Brewton Cemetery is a group of graves in rural Evans County, off Hwy 129, on land that belonged to Jim Hendricks. This cemetery is documented in the book, A History of Evans County, Georgia, published by the Evans County Historical Society. According to the book, there were originally at least 10 marked graves. Some of the graves that were originally here have been moved to Brewton Cemetery in Hagan (including the grave of Jonathan B. Brewton, for whom this cemetery was named).

Although the grave is unmarked, it is believed that this is the final resting place of Phillip Tippins, a soldier of the Revolutionary War. The first Tippins of record in the Tattnall-Evans area, he was the son of Henry and Diana Tippins of Queen Anne County, Maryland, later of Edgecomb and Anson Counties, North Carolina, moving to Spartanburg County, South Carolina where he (Henry) died.

Phillip Tippins migrated to Warren County, Georgia about 1780 where he married Mary Underwood. They moved about 1799 to Liberty County on granted land on Beard's Creek, later cut into Tattnall. After Mary died in 1804, Phillip married Nancy Phillips. The Beard's Creek property was sold and it appears that Phillip lived out his years near the Canoochee River north of Cedar Creek.

Phillip and Mary Underwood Tippins had eight children, and Phillip and Nancy Phillips Tippins had three children. Three of Phillip's first family married three of William Durrence's children, one married a daughter of William Eason, and one, John Underwood Tippins and wife Nancy Mizell and children were massacred by Florida Indians in 1838 (see Huxford's 'Pioneers of Wiregress Georgia,' Vol. 1).

SOURCE: Simmons, Dorothy Durrence. A History of Evans County. Claxton: Evans County Historical Society, 1999. p.58.