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MELISSA DOBELL PHILLIPS AND ENOCH PHILLIPS
Melissa Dobell, direct descendant of Dominie Douglass, an d Enoch Phillips were married on October 2, 1859 at Bradfor d, Wisconsin. They moved to Minnesota where they resided se veral years.
Enonch Phillips was born March 15, 1835 at Claybed, New Yor k, Calarajgus County. He was a farmer by occupation. Son o f Joseph and Luorettia Phillips.
At the age of nearly thirty years, he enrolled February 8 , 1864 at Centreville, Minnesota and was enlisted into th e service February 16, 1864 at St. Paul, Minnesota as a pri vate of Company H, 1st. Minnesota Heavy Artillery. He serve d under Captain James B. Atkinson for Twenty-two months, th e duration of the Civil War. He was mustered out with the c ompany and Honorably discharged as a private December 18, 1 865 at Marshal, Tennessee.
He moved his family to Montana in 1896. They lived on the e ast shore of Flathead Lake with their son Glen. When he wa s seventy-six years old they went to live at the Soldier? s Home at Columbia Falls, Montana. He died September 16, 17 14 and was buried in the cemetary at the Home.
Melissa Dobell Phillips was Born on June 18, 1836 in the to wn of Rega, Monroe County, New York State. When Eight year s old, her parents moved to Bradford, Wisconsin. She receiv ed a teacher?s certificate in April 1887. She died July 10 , 1926 at the Soldier?s Home and was also buried in that Ce metary.
Melissa and Enoch Phillips had eight children, thirty grand children, fifty great grandchildren, and six great-great gr andchildren.
( source, Fayth Evjen )
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