SEWALL SMITH PHILLIPS
AGED AUBURN MAN SUFFERED SHOCK NEAR HIS HOME AND DID NOT SURVIVE.
Sewall Smith Phillips of Park avenue, Auburn, was found unconscious in his field Wednesday noon where he had been working. The aged man had suffered a shock. He was quickly taken to the house but could not be revived and passed away in the afternoon.
Mr. Phillips was born in Turner, the yougest of a family of 12 children of which he was the last to survive. His father was Jonathan Phillips. Mr. Phillips would have been 83 years old July 24. He was a farmer all of his life and for the past 40 years had resided in the same house on Park avenue.
His wife, Elizabeth Lombard-Phillips of Turner, died about 22 years ago. He is survived by three sons, William G. Phillips of Riverside street, and John Phillips of Main street, Lewiston and Frank F. Phillips, of Riverside, California, who with his family have been in Auburn for several months taking care of him. One of Mr. Phillips' sisters was the wife of the late Solon Chase of Turner. Mr. Phillips lost two children, Lizzie, when a young woman and Jennie when she was a baby.
Mr. Phillips did not belong to any secret organizations but was a member of the Court St. Free Baptist Church.
All who knew him was fond of him and everyone who lived in his neighborhood was his friend. Mr. Phillips was especially fond of children and whenever a baby was born in his community he invariably made it a small cash present.
Source: The Lewiston Daily Sun, Lewiston, Maine, Thursday Morning, May 19, 1910; Pg. 8, Column 4
