Obituary.
Died, on the 12th of February, at her residence in Union Springs, Alabama, of pneumonia, after an illness of twenty days, Mrs. L.M. PHILLIPS, relict of Dr. Geo. N. Phillips, who died in Texas on the 11th of March, 1877.
On the 5th of March, 1875, their only son, Henry Moffet Phillips, aged 25 years, preceded his parents to the grave. Thus it will be seen as a small and interesting family has passed away to the spirit land in a few short years of each other.
Mrs. Phillips was a daughter of Col. Virgil H. Walker, late of Harris county, Ga., and was married to her husband, a son of Gen. Charles Phillips, of the same county, in the year 1848. They moved to Stewart county, where they lived ten years, and in 1860, moved to Texas.
In 1877, after the death of her husband, Mrs. Phillips returned with her sister, Mrs. A.B. Phillips, also a widow, to Alabama, and settled in Union Springs to pass the remaining days of their lives near their two brothers.
These sisters, for fifty years, have been bound to each other by an affection stronger than the cord of the Siamese twins - having always lived together - neither having a joy or sorrow that was not fully shared by the other; but death has broken this heavenly relation on earth and transferred the beloved sister - the model of purity, amiability and Christian unselfishness - the pet of her brothers from childhood - the idol of her dead husband and son, to that blissful realm beyond the grave, to join her loved ones gone before.
May it be permitted, when he is called away, to join her, is the humble prayer of her brother.
L.W.W.
Source: Columbus Sunday Enquirer, Columbus, Georgia, Sunday, February 16, 1879; Pg. 2
