(1) DIED - At Van Buren, Crawford county, on the 2? Ult., Mr. James Phillips, aged 85 years, a soldier of the Revolution.
Source: The Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, Arkansas, Wednesday, August 3, 1831
(2) The Daughters of the American Revolution at Van Buren can not find the grave of James Phillips, a revolutionary soldier, and the founder of Phillips Landing, the original name of Van Buren. The cemetery in which Phillips was buried in 1829 is now in all human probability in the very center of the bustling city of Van Buren. It is enough to know, however, that the revolutionary soldier Phillips died there, and was buried there in the very center of his last forceful endeavor, and a monument made of Crawford County stone, of which there is a superabundance, will not only honor the soldier, James Phillips, in the highest degree, but honor the Daughters of the American Revolution at that city and every citizen who shall contribute his part to the erection of a monument at any point
within the corporate limits of Van Buren.
Source: Pioneers and Makers of Arkansas, by Josiah Hazen Shinn, A.M. (1849-1917), published by Genealogical and Historical Publishing Company, 1908; Pg. 277
(3) WORK OF THE CHAPTERS.
Mary Fuller Percival Chapter (Van Buren, Ark.)
We have not located many Revolutionary soldiers' graves. The first and only grave marked by the chapter was one removed from an old graveyard to Fairview Cemetery, where a stone with the name of the soldier, James Phillips, was placed. The grave was dedicated with appropriate ceremonies, and the school children placed flowers upon it.
Source: Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, Volume LIV, January 1920, No. 1, published monthly for the Society by J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, Penna.; Pg. 217
