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This is a Small Family Cemetery Located on Mulberry Ridge On a hill top on the right hand side of Rt 20 South Before you get to the French Creek Game Farm. GPS Coordinates: 38.8628100, -80.3150700
Author: Herbert M. Gould
Elijah Phillips was born February 14, 1759 in Ashfield, Massachusetts., son of Phillip Phillips and Mercy Phillips. He served in the Revolutionary War as a Private in Capt. Samuel Taylor’s Company, also in Col. Nicholas Dike’s Regiment. He married Cynthia Goodwin on October 8, 1781 at Ashfield. They had seventeen children. Four of his children died as infants. He was a farmer. He left Massachusetts with an ox-team, accompanied by his wife and children, in the autumn of 1814. At the end of a six week journey through the rough country, they arrived, at French Creek, then Harrison County, Virginia, where they settled.
He died November 1841 in French Creek, Upshur County, West Virginia, and is buried there in the Old French Creek Cemetery.
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