Branches of the PHILLIPS Family
Branches of the PHILLIPS Family
First Generation
HARRIET PHILLIPS, born April 20, 1864, Missouri,
married July 3, 1880, Black Oak, Missouri, JOSEPH MALVUREN
WILLEY born February 8, 1862, Porter County, Indiana,
occupation Farmer. JOSEPH died December 11, 1929, Corpus Christi,
Texas (Cause -- cerebral hemorrhage). Buried at Bridgeport,
Oklahoma. HARRIET'S father was killed by the 'bushwackers' in
Missouri during the Civil War. HARRIET died January 16, 1905,
Bridgeport, Oklahoma.
- Children:
- i. MABEL WILLEY born March 31, 1881, Black Oak,
Missouri. MABEL died February 21, 1934, Braymar, Missouri
(Cause -- flu and pneumonia).
- ii. JOHN B. WILLEY born January 19, 1885, Black
Oak, Missouri.
- *iii. IDA MYRTLE WILLEY born February 1, 1886,
Black Oak, Caldwell County, Missouri. MYRTLE died
December 13, 1954, Torrance, L.A. County, California,
buried San Pedro, L.A. Co., CA.
- iv. ALBERT JOSEPH WILLEY born January 12, 1888,
Black Oak, Missouri.
- v. MARTHA E. WILLEY born May, 1890, Missouri.
- vi. SUSAN DELPHINA WILLEY born July 14, 1892,
Cowgil, Missouri. Aunt DEL lives in a nursing home in
Sapulpa, Oklahoma (Nov. 15, 1998).
- vii. GRACE WILLEY born February 27, 1894, Cowgil,
Missouri, married ca 1916, JESS RUSSELL. Lived in
Perryton, Ochiltree County, Texas. JESS had an auto
dealership in Perryton, Texas.
- viii. VIVIAN WILLEY born August 13, 1897, Black
Oak, Missouri.
- ix. CHARLES M. WILLEY born August 11, 1900,
Bridgeport, Oklahoma. CHARLES died October 1, 1918,
Nashville, Tennessee (Cause -- flu).
- x. WESTLEY WILLEY born August 1897, Missouri,
married a widow, PEARL {---}. WES was an engineer
who helped design numerous bridges in the western states,
and worked on the design of Disneyland, in Anaheim,
California. In return for his work on the park, Walt
Disney gave him a lifetime family pass to Disneyland.
Being childless, he gave the pass to his sister's
granddaughters, who lived nearby in Costa Mesa. WES and
PEARL lived their last years in the Santa Ana Heights
area of Costa Mesa, Orange County, California. WES died
in Costa Mesa soon after 1969.
Fifth Generation
- IDA MYRTLE WILLEY born February 1, 1886, Black
Oak, Caldwell County, Missouri, married April 11, 1905,
in Clinton, Custer County, Oklahoma, JOSEPH HORN
HALSEY, born November 21, 1881, Viola, Sedgwick
County, Kansas, (son of ANDREW McMILLAN HALSEY and
SUSAN FRANCES WYATT). JOSEPH died December 14,
1957, Los Angeles, California, buried December 17, 1957,
San Pedro, L.A. Co., California.
GRANDPA JOE lived with his son, JOE, and his family in
Costa Mesa, California, in his later years, and enjoyed
spending the weekends with his brother, BURD (Burgess),
who lived in a very large house with a full width front
porch, on St. Andrews Place, in the Wilshire District of
Los Angeles. They loved to play checkers and Chinese
checkers for hours at a time on the veranda. They had
just finished a spirited game -- Grandpa Joe won, and he
leaned back in his chair in laughter. That moment, he had
a massive heart attack and died before help arrived. He
was 76 years old. MYRTLE died December 13, 1954,
Torrance, L.A. Co., California, buried December 16, 1954,
San Pedro, L.A. Co., California. GRANDMA MYRT developed
throat cancer from a lifelong addiction to smoking, and
was also quarantined in a TB hospital in Torrance,
California, at the time of her death. It was a slow and
painful suffering for the dearest person I ever knew. She
was 68 years young.
- Children:
- i. ANDREW RAYMOND HALSEY born August 2,
1907, Butler, Custer County, Oklahoma, married ca
1945, MABEL LORENA JACKSON. RAY and MABEL
still reside in Perryton, Texas, where they
reared one son.
- ii. JOSEPH LeROY HALSEY born January 23,
1923, Booker, Ochiltree County, Texas, married
November 14, 1942, in Groom, Carson County,
Texas, MARY ELLA (FAYE) SULLIVAN, born
March 21, 1924, Beggs, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma,
(daughter of EMMIT WESLEY SULLIVAN and ADA
MAE SHIPLEY). FAYE died April 23, 1973, West
Covina, L.A. Co., CA, buried April 26, 1973,
Forest Lawn, Glendale, L.A. Co., CA. JOE died
April 16, 1969, Los Angeles, CA, buried, April
19, 1969, Forest Lawn, Glendale, L.A. Co., CA.
JOE and FAYE lived in Southern California where
they reared three daughters.
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