SHORES
(ON HILL) CEMETERY, (On Hill above
old Phillips-Shores Mill site) GILES COUNTY, TENNESSEE
PHILLIPS, Milus Milton 4 Mar 1919 2 Sep
1991, (s/o Spencer and Lizzie Jones Phillips; h/o Katherine Morris)
Obituary:
Mr. Milus Milton Phillips, 72, of Columbia, died Monday, Sept. 2, 1991, at
his residence following several months of illness. Funeral services will be
conducted
at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 4, at Oakes and Nichols Funeral Home with the
Rev. James Sewell and the Rev. Richard Roe officiating. The Lawrence County
native
was the son of the late Spencer D. and Lizzie Jones Phillips. He was a
member of the Craft Memorial United Methodist Church where he had formerly
served as
chairman of the Official Board. Serving in the United States Navy, he was a
veteran of World War II. Mr. Phillips retired in 1975 from the Cookeville
Post
Office and prior to that he was a railway mail clerk. He was also a member
of the Chairman�s Club at First Farmers and Merchants Bank. Survivors
include his wife,
Mrs. Katherine Morris Phillips of Columbia; one son, William Larry Phillips
of Arlington, Texas; one daughter, Mrs. Joe {Patsy} Hedrick of Columbia; two
sisters, Mrs. Nina Lucille Cole of Charlotte, N. C., Mrs. Corine Keeter of
Lawrenceburg; one brother, Jimmy Phillips of North Carolina and three grand-
children.
Sources are obviously Giles County Tennessee Cemeteries by the Genealogical
Society 1986, Newspaper abstracts of Giles County Tennessee 1840 - 1899.
Graveyard research by Wayne Austin. Census Records of 1850-1900. Obit. Sent in
by Sue Davis years ago.