Nov. 7, 1924 issue of The Pilot,
Vass, N.C.
CAMERON—There was a large crowd at Union Church Sunday, who
came to pay their last respects to Mr. Atlas Phillips on Route 2, who passed
away Friday the 31st at the Charlotte Sanitarium. Mr. Phillips who
was in his 73rd hear, had been in ill health for some time, and
decided to go to the sanitarium for an operation. He was accompanied by two of
his sons, J.A. and Charles Phillips. They left on Thursday and on reaching the
sanitarium it was found that he had uremia and that that he had also developed
pneumonia. He died the next day at 4:30 p.m. Mr. Phillips, the oldest son of
John Phillips and Belle McIver Phillips, was born and reared in the community
of Buffalo Church. His father died during the Civil War and to Atlas, a boy of
ten, fell the responsibility of providing for his widowed mother and the
younger children. He shouldered the burden and carried on. When he grew to
manhood he married Miss Eliza Thompson of Cameron community. From this union
were born eleven children, all living. They are: G.A. Phillips of Raeford; J.A.
Phillips of Cameron; Mrs. Gillis of Fayetteville; W.F., D.M., H.F. and C.M.
Phillips on Route 2; Mrs. Miller McDonald, Mrs. Addie Baxley, Mrs. Emma Frye,
and Miss Alice Phillips on Route 2.
Mr. Phillips was an industrious man and paid his debts. He
was a great reader and a thinker. He had read the Bible through several times.
He was familiar with history and the works of Josephus. Life to him was not
only a problem, but a mystery. He expressed his willingness to die, saying he
had lived out his allotted time, and the rest was “labor and sorrow.” His
children were devoted to him. Mr. J.A. Phillips of Cameron in conversation with
the correspondent, said that on Sunday after he had laid his father away, he and
his elder brother were walking over the little farm where they were born and
reared; that he said: “Here he toiled and brought us up—eleven children! We
were never hungry; we had the substantials of life. We were clothed, but the
advice he gave me were worth more than lands and money.”
The funeral services were conducted by Rev. M.D. McNeill.
The casket and case were of solid cypress. The grave was covered with lovely
autumnal flowers, and beautiful designs.
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