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Joseph Harmon Phillips. Born 1 December 1831. Married (1) Melissa
Guilliams, July 1858, Paola, Lykins, Kansas. Married (2) Marian Helen
Guilliams, 2 September 1860, Paola, Lykins, Kansas. Living 1857, 1860,
Paola, Lykins, Kansas. Living 1865, 1870, 1880, Paola, Miami, Kansas.
Living 1885, Wyandotte, Kansas. Living 1895, 1900, 1905, Paola, Miami,
Kansas. Died 4 February 1907, Paola, Miami, Kansas. Children: William
Grant and Alice Gertrude. Four others died in infancy.
James A. PHILLIPS. Born c. 1835. Never married. Living 1857, 1860,
Paola, Lykins, Kansas. Living 1865, Fort Gibson, Indian Territory.
Living 1870, Burlingame, Osage, Kansas. Died 3 May 1872, Burlingame,
Osage, Kansas.
THE JOSEPH ALLRED PAPERS
On the Allred website (http://www.allredfamily.org/joseph.htm), there is
a reference to James and Joseph Phillips in the text. It is claimed that
they idolized their uncle James Allred (born c. 1810, still living in 1882
on Sandy Creek), who traded in mules and worked the gold mine that his father
Joseph Allred had left him, and that their cousins, Isaac Allred and Jesse
Miller, idolized him as well. Letters from all four young men are housed at
the Duke University Library, Durham, North Carolina, in the Joseph Allred
Papers, Collection #88 (more on this below).
According to the same web page, James Allred “never married but had issue”:
A child born c. 1843 by liaison with Polly Burgess.
A child born c. 1853 by liaison with Martitia Jane Stout.
A child, Mary Ellen Cox, born c. 1858, by liaison with Dorinda Caroline Cox.
A child, born c. 1862, by liaison with Susan Hay.
I found no reference in the Joseph Allred papers to the “liaisons” of James
Allred. I did find the letters from all four of his grandsons, though not all
were written to their Uncle James, who never married.
In a letter dated 14 May 1857, Joseph Harmon Phillips, in a letter addressed
to “Respected uncle and aunt,” wrote of his recent arrival in Paola, Lykins
County, Kansas Territory:
“i got home without any accident and found things all in a stir
the territory is filling up very fast there is not any vacant
claims roud here not any whers near i got home in time to get me
a claim within a half mile of town but people thought it was
indian land and had passed it by on that account but I got the
indians to show me their claims and foud it was vacant James and
i is building for our selves but we have to stop now to work for
other people we have consideable work on hand and at a fair price
we are building a house 24 feet square for our selves with 4 rooms
in it we calculate to finish it before the land sales which
commences the 24 of June and it will be for sale as quick as it is
done we have had some good offers for it all ready but think it
expedient to hold on a while ... James talks of going California
next spring but i think he will give it up yet i will bring my
letter to a close. your obedient servant J H Phillips”
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