Category: Phillips
Elmer Radcliff’s biological father is John Phillips and connect the Phillips branch to the Radcliff branch.
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US Presidents in my Family Tree
By connecting your family tree to the giant family tree on Family Search . com you can see how you’re related to all sorts of famous people from history. Some of the connections are iffy, but I found several that seem likely, including more than 2 dozen US presidents: Twenty one are via the Starr…… Read more
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Emma Fogle Reynolds
I have been trying to find the origins of my 3x great grandmother, Emma Reynolds since I joined ancestry . com. My cousin had put together a tree that I copied back when I first started my tree, but after a bit of digging it became clear the parentage of Emma wasn’t set. We knew…… Read more
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Remembrance of family I never knew
Ancestry.com reminded me tomorrow, May 4th, marks the 128th anniversary of the date when John William Phillips married Ida Velleta Reynolds. These are the parents of Elmer Radcliff, my maternal grandmother’s father. It’s an odd thing to consider. Their marriage was very short lived. The family took the time to report the wedding in the…… Read more
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Killian/Killion
Martha Jane Killion, our 3rd great grandmother was born in Indiana but moved with her family to Mclean County and at age 21 in 1874 married James Thompson Phillips, a Pennsylvania transplant who worked as a day laborer and later a farmer. Martha had 6 children, including our 2x grandfather, John William Phillips. She died…… Read more