SHORES
(ON HILL) CEMETERY, (On Hill above
old Phillips-Shores Mill site) GILES COUNTY, TENNESSEE
PHILLIPS, Spencer Dixon 29 Sep 1883 14
Mar 1963, (h/o Lizzie Jones Phillips; s/o John Milton and Mary Lou Harwell
Phillips)
Obituary:
Funeral services for Spencer Dixon Phillips, 79, former caretaker of Pulaski
Elementary School for many years, were held at 2 o�clock Sunday afternoon at
Pulaski Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. Floyd Cates and the Rev. Mack
Pinkelton, Baptist ministers. Burial took place in the Old Shores Cemetery.
Mr.
Phillips died unexpectedly at 9:15 o�clock Thursday morning, March 14, at
his home in Pulaski after a period of declining health. Born September 29,
1883, in
Giles County, he was the son of the late J. M. Phillips and Mary Lou Harwell
Phillips. Mr. Phillips is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lizzie Jones Phillips;
four
daughters, Mrs. Walter E. Redd and Mrs. Clifford Smith, Pulaski, Mrs. George
Arnold, Russellville, Ala., and Mrs. Lucille Cole, Charlotte, N. C.; four
sons,
Roy Phillips, Shores Community, Milas Phillips, Nashville, Dalcus Phillips,
Exenia, Ohio, and James Edward Phillips, USA, stationed in Alaska; 22 grand-
children and 15 great-grandchildren; 5 sisters, Mrs. Nora Stockman, Mrs.
Albert Glover, Mrs. Alex Beeler, Mrs. Annie Markham and Mrs. Herbert
Rutherford,
all of Giles County. Pulaski Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
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.