Wendle Councile Phillips, the partner of William H. Little, was born March 22, 1867, in Robinson county, North Carolina. He is the son of E. R. and Rose Ann (Mercer) Phillips, both of whom were of Irish descent. They came to North Carolina when young, settling in Robinson county, and there married. The father was a country school teacher and preacher of the Baptist church. During the Civil war he served in the army as a first lieutenant in a regiment of the army of the Confederacy. He still lives in North Carolina, where he and his wife reared a family of thirteen children, but six of whom are now living. They are J . R., Nettie, Mary Jane, Lula, Wendle C. and E. R., Jr. All are residents of North Carolina with the exception of Wendle C. Phillips. Such education as he received came to him through the avenues of the public schools of his home town, and at an early age he became responsible for his own progress in the world. He eventually entered the building and contracting field, first as a workman, but later as a contractor,
and the present partnership between Mr. Phillips and his partner, Mr. Little, is a matter of thirteen years duration. Their association has ever been of the most agreeable nature, their natures blending to the extent that constant association in a business way only makes each the more valuable to the other.
Mr. Phillips married Miss Tommy Smith, the daughter of Thomas Smith, of Americus, Georgia. One child has been born of this union: Wendle Councile, Jr., born October 16, 1911.
Source: A History of Savannah and South Georgia, Volume II, by William Harden (1844-1936), published by Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, 1913; Pg. 872
