Harriet Josephine Hill Phillips


(from information at hand)

Harriet Josephine (Josie) Hill Phillips was the daughter of James Hill and Nancy Dixon. In a letter to my grandfather, Marion Lowry Phillips, dated March 17, 1968, Mattie Walker of Indiana describes her as follows: "...I can remember seeing a picture of your grandmother (Harriet Josephine Hill Phillips) among my grandmothers pictures and I've the records copied from the Phillips Cemetery in Pickett County, Tenn...The only one of Grandma Harriet Radford Hill's brothers or sisters my mother can remember seeing was Aunt Lynn Campbell.(her name was Malinda Elizabeth) but Moma always called her "Aunt Lynn". The year that Aunt Beth Phillips died Aunt Lynn came to Pickett Co. to see her niece, Tabitha Phillips, and since Moma's older sister had been named Elizabeth for Aunt Lynn-she-Aunt Lynn brought along a new doll for little Elizabeth Ellen Brody(Brady?) Foster. She had not known that the little girl had died in August prior to that November of her visit. When told, she could think only of getting rid of the doll that would remind the parents of the little child, of their loss--but your grand- mother Harriett Josephine Hill Phillips (Aunt Josie)suggested she give the doll to Minnie. Moma says that was the only store bought doll she ever had and she was so grateful to Aunt Josie for remembering her....I expect you and I are doubly related as Elizabeth Tompkins who married Samuel Phillips (2nd gt, grandparents-I believe)-or gt. grandparents- Elizabeth was an older sister of my great grandfather Jenkins Tompkins."

James Hill