A history of Texas and Texans . which he was connected wasnot to his liking and he turned to his trade, as above setforth, in the fertile blackland belt and put his relianceupon the community of Waxahachie as to future success. While the war between the states was in progress,John G. Phillips quit his trade and aided the Confed-eracy as a powder-maker in Waxahachie, where a smallplant was maintained, and when the dove of peace finallyhovered over our country and men went to work insteadof war, he dropped back into his own quiet shop, andthere had a long and uneventful career. Religiously, heis
A history of Texas and Texans . which he was connected wasnot to his liking and he turned to his trade, as above setforth, in the fertile blackland belt and put his relianceupon the community of Waxahachie as to future success. While the war between the states was in progress,John G. Phillips quit his trade and aided the Confed-eracy as a powder-maker in Waxahachie, where a smallplant was maintained, and when the dove of peace finallyhovered over our country and men went to work insteadof war, he dropped back into his own quiet shop, andthere had a long and uneventful career. Religiously, heis a ilethodist, and his political affiliation, quiet butsincere, has always been with the democratic party, Samuel Gore Phillips, the father of John G., passedaway without leaving any tangible record of himself orhis ancestry. He came to Texas before the war and diedin during the progress of that fraternalstrife. John G. Phillips married Miss Sarah n daughterof George Peak, a Kentucky farmer. Mrs. Phillips was. TEXAS AND TEXANS 1969 born a year before her husband and still survives. Theirchildren are as follows: George S. of Kaufman; Hunter, of Waxahachie; Miss Kate; Claud B.,engaged in the lumber business at Houston, Texas. George S. Phillips was born in Marion county, Ken-tucky, December 23, 1853, and was only two years of agewhen brought to Texas by his parents. He lived in Waxa-hachie through his school days and until after he hadgained his first business experience. He attended not onlythe public schools but also took a course of study at Mar-vin College, Waxahachie, and he was a clerk in that townuntil March, 1882. He then formed partnership with S. of Waxahachie in farm and implement busi-ness, which continued to December, 1883. At that time hetook charge of the lumber yard of the M. T. JonesLumlier Co. in Kaufman, and he has rounded out a pe-riod of thirty years of service in that same yaril. Forseveji years he was manager of the
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