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Issac Phillips (son of Charles Phillips and Melvina) was born 1794 in North Carolina, and died 1866 in Campbell County, Tennessee. He married Nancy Bunch.

 Includes NotesNotes for Issac Phillips:
NEW RIVER SETTLERS BY; WILLAIM JASPER SMITH

ISAAC PHILLIPS, THE FATHER OF ALL THE PHILLIPS, SETTLED ON NEW RIVER OVER 100 YEARS AGO. HE BUILT A LOG HOUSE JUST BELOW ELIJAH'S CREEK. HE CAME FROM HAYWOOD COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA TO ANDERSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE. HE REARED FOUR BOYS, TOM, ISAAC, JAMES AND CHARLES. THERE IS A HOST OF HIS RELATIVES STILL LIVING THERE. I DON'T KNOW WHAT NATIONALITY THEY WERE, BUT THEY SPOKE A BROKEN LANGUAGE. THEY WERE A PECULIAR PEOPLE, BUT CLEVER. THEY LOVED THEIR WHISKEY AND IT WAS A COMMON DRINK THEN. A QUART BOTTLE SET ON THE DINING TABLE AND A WOODEN BOWL AND SPOON. PREACHERS DIDN'T THINK IT WAS WRONG TO TAKE A SUP.

ISAAC WOULD HIDE HIS MONEY, GOLD AND SILVER WAS THE CURRENCY THEN. HE GOT HOLD OF NANCY'S, HIS WIFE'S OLD STOCKING ONE DAY AND PUT MONEY IN IT AND PUT IT IN THE CELLAR. HIS WIFE WENT DOWN IN THE CELLAR TO GET SOME POTATOES. HE PEEPED THROUGH A CRACK TO SEE IF SHE FOUND IT AND SHE DID, SHE COULD HARDLEY MOVE IT. HE TOLD HER NOT TO BRING IT UP THRE HE DIDN'T NEED THE BEGGARS TO SEE IT, THAT HE WOULD MOVE IT. HE WOULD GT DRUNK AND PUT HIS FINGERS IN HIS EARS AND SAY, OLD IKE WILL DIE IN THE MOUNTIANS. AT THE CLOSE OF THE CIVIL WAR HE DIED IN THE OLD LOG HOUSE HE BUILT IN HIS EARLY DAYS. HE HID ALL HIS MONEY SOMEWHERE ON THE CREEK AND IT HAS NEVER BEEN FOUND.

MY FATHER WENT TO BORROW SOME MONEY FROM HIM, KNOWING THAT HE LOVED HIS DRAM, HE TOOK A QUART OF BRANDY WITH HIM. IT WAS WINTER AND MY FATHER GOT COLD RIDING ACROSS THE MOUNTAIN. HE HITCHED UP HIS HOSE AND WENT IN. IKE WAS IN ONE CORNER AND HIS WIFE WAS IN THE OTHER. HE DREW UP A STOOL AND SAT DOWN, WHEN HE GOT WARM HE TOLD IKE HIS BUSINESS. HE SAID I HAVEN'T GOT IT. MY FATHER PULLED OUT HIS BRANDY AND IKE TOOK SEVERAL DRINKS AND BEGIN SINGING. HE TOLD HIS WIFE TO SEE IF SHE COULD FIND BILL ANY MONEY. SHE WENT BACK IN THE OTHER END OF THE HOUSEE AND KNOCKED A PIN OUT OF THE SIDE OF THE WALL. HE HAD HIS MONEY HID IN THAT HOLE AND I HAVE OFTEN THOUGHT HIS MONEY WAS STILL SOME WHERE IN THE WALL OF THAT HOUSE.

NOTE--THIS ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED IN THE ANDERSON COUNTY TIMES.

Children of Issac Phillips and Nancy Bunch are:
  1. Issac Phillips.
  2. Hannah Phillips, b. 1813.
  3. +Moses Phillips, b. 1825, d. April 22, 1877.
  4. James Phillips, b. December 10, 1826.
  5. Sarah Phillips, b. April 1827.
  6. Eliazbeth Phillips, b. 1834.
  7. Thomas Phillips, b. 1834.
  8. +Charles Phillips, b. June 6, 1836, Tennessee, d. February 1, 1898, Tennessee.
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