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Note: Upshur County Census, 1860, by Thomas J Liggett, page 22: Franklin PHILLIPS, farmer age 41 Fannie K, wife age 36 William O, son age 14 Emily, dau age 12 Marcellus, son age 10 Edward, son age 9 Sarah E, dau age 7 Maxwell, son age 6 James M B, son age 4 Olive L, dau age 1 1870 Census for Meade District, Upshur County, WV, page 39: 82-76: Franklin Phillips age 51 born VA Occu: Carpenter [ca. 1819] Caroline age 38 born VA Wife [ca. 1832] William O age 25 born VA Occu: Teacher [ca. 1845] Emily age 23 born VA [ca. 1847] Maxwell age 15 born VA Occu: Farm Laborer [ca. 1855] James M age 13 born VA [ca. 1857] Olive L age 12 born VA [ca. 1858] Fanny J age ? born VA [forgot to write age] Nancy N Young age 12 born VA [ca. 1858] 1880 Upshur County Census: M027: [Head] Franklin Phillips white male age 61 Farmer B: WV F: MA M: MA [Wife] Caroline white female age 48 B: WV F: WV M: WV [Dau] Fannie J age 11 B: WV [Dau] Orpha age 7 B: WV [Dau] Chloe age 4 B: WV "Upshur County, WV Obituaries and News Items 1872-1900, Volume 1" by Lemoyne Wolfe and Karon King (copyrighted 1994), page 63: The Buckhannon Delta, Thursday November 30, 1899: Franklin Phillips was born Feb. 12, 1899 [sic] (should read 1819), and was 80 years, 9 months and (16) days old when he died. He married the beautiful Fanny Shurtliff at 24 years of age by whom he raised eight children. He enlisted in Company E, of the Third Infantry in the spring of 1861. About a year later durning the battle of McDowell in Pendleton Co. while loading and firing as cooly as though he was shooting a target, his company was flanked by a detachment of the enemy, and a murderous...fire was opened on them,.....a musket ball crashed through the bone of one of Franklin Phillip's thighs up his body [sic] and lodging in the....limb directly opposite after breaking the bone. His comrades fell back leaving him on the field....they soon recovered and went back under a heavy storm of lead and carried him off and thence to Franklin, the county seat. The fortunes of war compelled the men to retreat on this occasion, but before leaving they detailed Hubert Phillips, brother of the wonded man, to stay and nurse him. The victorious oncoming rebels captured the nurse, taking him on South, where he died in prison, thus leaving the wounded man without a friend. On his case....brought to the notice of the surgeons of the Confederate Army....thus ordered to be placed on a table, there to submit to an operaton. His condition was such that nothing short of a double amputation would suffice, and the injury was so high that a successful amputation was impossible without unjointing at the hips. So they abandonded the idea and ordered him to be carried away to die, observing to each other the he would soon be dead anyhow. He was placed on an improvised couch in an....to the county jail, where two whole months he received absolutely no attention beyond giving a morsel to eat and a cup of water each day. A physican never saw him nor were his wounds dressed or even washed durning that time. By the merest chance news of his condition reached home, where upon his single sister, now Mrs. (Maranda) H. Rexroad, (Electa Phillips Rexroad), started at once for his bedside. On reaching the town where he was said to be, she made an intelligent search and enquiry for him, but the only information was that he was dead. That he had been there but had died sometime before, and that her coming was too late. Dispair began to settle around her heart and in this form of mind she was wandering aimlessly from street to street when her ear detected a few notes of a song. She stopped instantly to listen, not because of anything peculiar about the song but she fancied there was something strangely familiar about the voice. A moment later the sounds were repeated and she almost flew to the place from whence they proceeded for she recognized the singer as none other than her brother, Franklin, the object of her search. The poverty of this language is such that to describe her feelings on seeing his condition is simply impossible, "Yes" in repsonse to the query, "there is a doctor here but it would be all his life is worth....".....made under the cover of darkness of night, and the fact of his going at all had to be kept a profound secret. At the end of a month's treatment it was thought safe to carry him on a litter. So Major Thorpe, John Riggleman, Elza Haddock, and Edwin Phillips were dispatched from this county to perform the office [sic]. On reaching their destination, but before even starting back, they were arrested and taken on south. The sister then had nothing left but her to hire Southern men in relays of four, for a single day at a time, and started with her precious charge for our lines, the nearest point at which they could be reached was Beverly. They were a whole week on the road and she had had no little trouble to secure hands from day to day, but when they approached within 8 or 10 miles of our lines the Union Soliders began to meet them and from there to Beverly the road was fairly blue with them. No trouble now to get help. A thousand men were ready and anxious to perform the service. After a short rest, and a shorter one at Buckhannon they brought him home, and on reaching the grounds outside his home he said "Let me down, boys, I want to look around a little." His good wife had given one of the strongest and healthiest husbands on earth to her country, and her
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