Clay County AlArchives Biographies.....Phillips, E. A. November 9 1859 - living 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
E. A. PHILLIPS, probate judge of Clay county, is a son of John B. and
Martha J. (Avery) Phillips. The Phillips family came originally from Virginia,
but removed to Georgia at a very early date. Both the grandfather and
great-grandfather were Georgians. The grandfather, Edmund Phillips, reared his
family in Newton county, Ga., with the exception of the years 1856-7; when he
lived in Monroe county, Mississippi. John B. Phillips was reared in Newton
county, Ga., with the exception of two years in Mississippi, and lived there
until 1868, when he removed to Clay county, Ala. He served in the late war in
company B, Fifty-third Georgia infantry, and was in Cobb's Legion and
Longstreet's corps during the entire war. He now lives two miles east of
Ashland, Ala. He reared a family of five children. E. A. Phillips, the eldest
son, was born November 9, 1859, in Newton county, Ga. He was married November
13, 1884, in Clay county, to Martha E. Blackstocks, and has only one child
living, John La Fayette, who was born in Ashland, Ala., September 17, 1892. He
was educated in the common schools, and then taught school four years. In 1886
he was elected circuit court clerk and served one term of six years, or until
1892, when he was elected by the populists probate judge of Clay county. He is
very enthusiastic in the new movement, and. was a delegate to the first populist
convention ever held in. Alabama, which was held in Birmingham in June, 1892,
where he was chosen a delegate to the National convention at Omaha, Neb. He was
an excellent circuit court clerk, and it is confidently anticipated of him that
he will be at least equal in the performance of his duties as probate judge. He
is a member of the Baptist church, and is highly esteemed by all.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 649-650


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