Samuel Elliott Phillips, born in Randolph County, 1832, son of Eli and Mary (Kittle) Phillips, was married November 9, 1854, near Meadowville, to Sarah, daughter of James L. and Prudence (Phillips) Yeager. Children, Prudence, Elam H., Cordelia, Naomi, Louisa A., Irvin, Rebecca, Octava, Virginia J. and Joshua Corder, who was born December 15, 1875 and died April 20, 1899. He is a Democrat and a farmer, living on Glady Creek, where he owns 96 acres, nearly all improved, and partly underlaid with a three-foot vein of coal. There is an excavation and a ruin on his land which have been supposed to be traces of a furnace. It has been attributed to Indians. It should be borne in mind, however, that Indians were unacquainted with the process of smelting ores, and mined nothing except native copper, which they could hammer into shape. Therefore, if the ruin really was a furnace, it was probably made by the first white settlers, and the circumstances of its building have been forgotten.
Source: The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, from its early exploration and settlement to the present time, by Hu Maxwell, published by Acme Publishing Co., Morgantown, W.V., 1899; Pg. 436
