At the time that Emma Street met Ed Phillips, she was working for an attorney in Park City named Snyder. June 19, 1898, Emma witnessed the fire that burned to the ground most of Park City. It started at 4:00 a.m. and by 8:00 a.m. only a blackened mass of smoldering ashes remained. The fire destroyed most of the town including the city hall and all the legal records including deeds, mining records, birth and death certificates. She saved Mr. Snyder's records by burying them in a pile of sand in the street.
After marrying Ed Phillips, moving to Mackay Idaho and having her family (totalling 13 children including 4 sets of twins), it was often that you found Emma cooking enough for an army. She would feed all the hoboes from the railroad, Indians passing through, and anyone else who happened by or whom Ed brought home. Emma was hard working, honest and well thought of in the community.
Emma loved flowers and always had some in her yard and in her windows, the kitchen window was full of geraniums and a bell shaped flower.
Emma could do anything. She could fix a broken window, dig her own basement, work in the blacksmith shop with Ed or be a midwife delivering babies.
Emma belonged to the Ladies Aid Society. She was a very special person. She always had a kind word for everyone.
She always said there was some good in every person and she tried to find it. She would never say "No" and was always volunteering to do something, or help someone.
At the time that Emma Street met Ed Phillips, she was working for an attorney in Park City named Snyder. June 19, 1898, Emma witnessed the fire that burned to the ground most of Park City. It started at 4:00 a.m. and by 8:00 a.m. only a blackened mass of smoldering ashes remained. The fire destroyed most of the town including the city hall and all the legal records including deeds, mining records, birth and death certificates. She saved Mr. Snyder's records by burying them in a pile of sand in the street.
After marrying Ed Phillips, moving to Mackay Idaho and having her family (totalling 13 children including 4 sets of twins), it was often that you found Emma cooking enough for an army. She would feed all the hoboes from the railroad, Indians passing through, and anyone else who happened by or whom Ed brought home. Emma was hard working, honest and well thought of in the community.
Emma loved flowers and always had some in her yard and in her windows, the kitchen window was full of geraniums and a bell shaped flower.
Emma could do anything. She could fix a broken window, dig her own basement, work in the blacksmith shop with Ed or be a midwife delivering babies.
Emma belonged to the Ladies Aid Society. She was a very special person. She always had a kind word for everyone.
She always said there was some good in every person and she tried to find it. She would never say "No" and was always volunteering to do something, or help someone.
Family Members
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Minnie Clarice "May" Phillips Singer Willson
1900–1988
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Lawrence Edwin Phillips
1901–1918
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Mildred May Phillips Ivie
1904–1954
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Hyrum Phillips
1905–1909
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Della Elizabeth Phillips Knowles
1908–1982
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Veron Bates Phillips
1910–1956
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Virgil S Phillips
1910–1991
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Roy Marvin Phillips
1913–1941
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Ray Melvin Phillips
1913–1989
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Ruby Emma (Twin) Phillips
1915–1915
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Ruth Thelma Phillips
1915–1915
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Glen Alvin Phillips
1919–1997
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