Thank you for serving our country. PHILLIPS, HENRY JOHNSON Born: 12 January 1822 Tennessee Died: 13 January 1903 Houston County, Texas Buried: Wesley Chapel Cemetery, Houston County Spouse: Sarah Jane Brashears, m. 15 June 1840 Pension: #02099 Service: Company C., Gould's Battalion Infantry Comments: Suffering with bronchitis which becomes very aggravated on slightest provocation. Labor of any kind is impossible. In county 48 years in October 1899. Sources; Confederate Pension Application; Wife's Pension Application; Houston County History, p. 532; Houston County Cemeteries; p. 811; Houston County Census: 1860, p. 82; 1880; 1900, p. 31; Ancestry.com.

Children born to Henry and Sarah Phillips were Caronelia (Nancy),1846;Permelia Elizabeth,1847; Isabella,1848; Sarah Ann, 1850; Phenelphia, 1853; Margaret,1856; Sara, 1858; Emma Rinthea,1860; Absalom, 1862; Ida, 1866;and Johnson, 1869. All lived to become adults and most to advanced age. The children attended school in log building which was used also as the Community church on Sundays. The Wesley Chapel Cemetery is now located there.

Henry Phillips was a farmer. Chief crop was cotton. Fiber was pulled from the seed by hand and spun into thread by the mother and daughter. The thread was dyed with berries, leaves and bark gathered by the children. The thread was woven into cloth on a loom in the home to make their clothes. Some of the home-spun fabric remained with a granddaughter until her home was destroyed by fire about 1940. Sheep were also raised and sheared. Wool was combed, carded and spun into yarn. Cloaks were knitted from the yarn. Pairs of socks were sent to Confederate soldiers during Civil War. Children and grandchildren contributed to the growth and wellbeing of Houston County and Crockett.

Son, Absalom, served the County as sheriff and in other positions in law enforcement a greater part of his entire life. Johnson Phillips was engaged in grocery business for many years. He was elected to the office of City Marshall of Crockett just before his death in 1929. A grandson of Henry and Sarah Jane Phillips established a funeral home in Crockett the first part of the century. Descendants were and still are merchants, farmers, ranchers, educators, in medical and many other programs that make Houston County the wonderful place it is today.by Wadell J. Harrison For more info.