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Last Modified: October 2012
Created: February 2004

RUHAMEY JONES PHILLIPS
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BORN: October 7, 1844 in Rabun County, Georgia 5 6 7 10 11 17 18 19
DIED: March 16, 1923 17 18
BURIED: She is buried in Wiley Cemetery, Rabun Co., GA with a double marker with Miles Phillips (Sep. 23, 1848-Aug. 19, 1925). 17 18
PARENTS: Licena Watkins and Berryman Jones 5 6 18 19
MARRIAGE: Miles Phillips (Sep. 23, 1848 SC-Aug. 19, 1925) in 1866. He was a miller in the corn mill in 1910. 7 10 11 17 18

CHILDREN
NAME BORN DIED SPOUSE NUMBER OF CHILDREN NOTES
Licenia V. PHILLIPS 7 8 1869 7 8 19xx 10
Cordelia S. PHILLIPS 10 8 1874 8 19xx 10
unknown PHILLIPS 10 before 1900 10 before 1900 10
unknown PHILLIPS 10 before 1900 10 before 1900 10

RESIDENCES: Rabun County, Georgia in 1850, 1860, 1870 5 6 7

NOTES: In the 1870 Census Ruhamey and Miles are living with Mary Jones (born about 1810) in the entry immediately after her parents. This might indicate that Mary was a relative, possibly a widowed aunt? But I don't know who her husband was. 7
Could this be the same Mary Jones that appears alone in the 1850 and 1860 Censuses? Maybe she was the wife of the William Jones that appears in the 1830 and 1840 Censuses (born between 1800-1810). If so, he must have died between 1840 and 1850. By 1850 her 6 children would have all been older than 20. William, Abraham, and Berryman may have all been brothers. Abraham and Berryman both named a son William. Berryman named a son Abraham and Abraham named a son Berryman. Both had a son named Franklin and daughters named Mary and Elizabeth. Abraham also named a daughter Lucinda, possibly after Berryman's wife Licena/Lucinda?

Her sister, Emily Rebeca Jones Smith, is living with her and Miles. Listed as widowed. Works as a housekeeper. 11

SOURCES: 5 1850 Census - Rabun County, Georgia
6 1860 Census - Rabun County, Georgia
7 1870 Census - Rabun County, Georgia
8 1880 Census - Rabun County, Georgia - Tiger
10 1910 Census - Rabun County, Georgia - Tiger
11 1920 Census - Rabun County, Georgia - Stonepile
17 Wiley Cemetery Inscriptions
18 Find-a-Grave - Wiley Cemetery
19 Rabun County, Georgia and Its People Volume I, Rabun County Historical Society, P.O. Box 921, Clayton, GA 30525
22 1923 Death Certificate of Ruhamey Jones Philips from Georgia Virtual Vault