PHILLIPS, Shelby of Thorndale. Age 94. Died 4/4/1965 (Sunday) in a Rockdale hospital following a short illness. Services held (Monday) from Phillips & Luckey Chapel, Rockdale. Burial in Thorndale City Cemetery. Revs. Thomas White, Trinity Methodist Church, Thorndale, and Frank Cady, St.John's Methodist Church, Rockdale, officiated.
BORN 1/6/1871 in Tennessee to M/M. Elijah Phillips. He lived with an aunt and uncle in Fayetteville, TN. when he was 7 after his mother passed away 2 years before. At age of 15 he took a trip up the Chisholm Trail into Oklahoma, known as Indian Territory. He came to the Salty Comm. in 1894 and worked on farms of the late R.M. Beard, Sr. and late Frank C. Clement. Retired rancher. Married Lillian Jinks on 8/26/1896, she died 7/2/1956. Daughter, Artie Belle, died 8/20/1928. He took over the management of the Bremond Ranch near Thorndale in 1903 and remained there until his retirement in 1945 when he moved to Thorndale.
SURVIVORS: 2 sons, Douglas M. Phillips and Guy Phillips, Thorndale; daughter, Mrs. N.N. (Vashti) Newman, Rockdale; 11 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren.
BORN 1/6/1871 in Tennessee to M/M. Elijah Phillips. He lived with an aunt and uncle in Fayetteville, TN. when he was 7 after his mother passed away 2 years before. At age of 15 he took a trip up the Chisholm Trail into Oklahoma, known as Indian Territory. He came to the Salty Comm. in 1894 and worked on farms of the late R.M. Beard, Sr. and late Frank C. Clement. Retired rancher. Married Lillian Jinks on 8/26/1896, she died 7/2/1956. Daughter, Artie Belle, died 8/20/1928. He took over the management of the Bremond Ranch near Thorndale in 1903 and remained there until his retirement in 1945 when he moved to Thorndale.
SURVIVORS: 2 sons, Douglas M. Phillips and Guy Phillips, Thorndale; daughter, Mrs. N.N. (Vashti) Newman, Rockdale; 11 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren.
PHILLIPS, Shelby of Thorndale. Age 94. Died 4/4/1965 (Sunday) in a Rockdale hospital following a short illness. Services held (Monday) from Phillips & Luckey Chapel, Rockdale. Burial in Thorndale City Cemetery. Revs. Thomas White, Trinity Methodist Church, Thorndale, and Frank Cady, St.John's Methodist Church, Rockdale, officiated.
BORN 1/6/1871 in Tennessee to M/M. Elijah Phillips. He lived with an aunt and uncle in Fayetteville, TN. when he was 7 after his mother passed away 2 years before. At age of 15 he took a trip up the Chisholm Trail into Oklahoma, known as Indian Territory. He came to the Salty Comm. in 1894 and worked on farms of the late R.M. Beard, Sr. and late Frank C. Clement. Retired rancher. Married Lillian Jinks on 8/26/1896, she died 7/2/1956. Daughter, Artie Belle, died 8/20/1928. He took over the management of the Bremond Ranch near Thorndale in 1903 and remained there until his retirement in 1945 when he moved to Thorndale.
SURVIVORS: 2 sons, Douglas M. Phillips and Guy Phillips, Thorndale; daughter, Mrs. N.N. (Vashti) Newman, Rockdale; 11 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren.
BORN 1/6/1871 in Tennessee to M/M. Elijah Phillips. He lived with an aunt and uncle in Fayetteville, TN. when he was 7 after his mother passed away 2 years before. At age of 15 he took a trip up the Chisholm Trail into Oklahoma, known as Indian Territory. He came to the Salty Comm. in 1894 and worked on farms of the late R.M. Beard, Sr. and late Frank C. Clement. Retired rancher. Married Lillian Jinks on 8/26/1896, she died 7/2/1956. Daughter, Artie Belle, died 8/20/1928. He took over the management of the Bremond Ranch near Thorndale in 1903 and remained there until his retirement in 1945 when he moved to Thorndale.
SURVIVORS: 2 sons, Douglas M. Phillips and Guy Phillips, Thorndale; daughter, Mrs. N.N. (Vashti) Newman, Rockdale; 11 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren.
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