PHILLIPS, Alfred and Susan – Parents of M. Stamper Phillips and five other children. They made the trip to Illinois from Wayne County, Kentucky in October, 1830, and completed their cabin three and one-half miles south of Washington, Illinois just before the deep snows of the 1830-31 winter set in. In late life, Alfred Phillips, and possibly his wife, lived with his son Stamper in Panola Twp. They are not related to the Phillips settlers in Kansas Twp.

PHILLIPS, Eli – Probably born in the Kansas Twp. neighborhood in 1843; he lived on the W 1/2 of the W 1/2 of Section 19 there as late as 1873.

PHILLIPS, James V. and Jane – Probably came after Robert and Samuel Phillips into Kansas Twp. They lived there in 1831 and he served in the Black Hawk War the next year. They bought land in Sections 7 and 18 on December 26, 1837 from Thomas A. and Sarah Ann McCord.

PHILLIPS, Micajah Stamper and Elmira (Frederick) Corder – Micajah was born in Wayne County, Kentucky, December 19, 1829, and died in Panola Twp. on August 20, 1887. He was unrelated to the Kansas Twp. Phillips family, although Stamper Phillips came to Illinois as a babe in 1830, just in time for his father to get a cabin built before the winter of the deep snows. In the same party was another babe, Shelby M. Cullom, who became United States Senator from Illinois. The family first settled south of Washington, Illinois, but M. Stamper purchased the E 1/2 of the NE 1/4 of Section 3 in northern Panola Twp. and moved there about 1861. He was buried in the Baughman Cemetery.

PHILLIPS, Robert – Came from Indiana and settled about on the McLean County line in Kansas Twp. in 1828; with the Amasa Stouts in Greene Twp. this was the earliest settlement in our five-township area. He was the brother of Samuel Phillips, who also settled that year. Robert died in 1835, probably the earliest adult death in Kansas Twp.

PHILLIPS, Samuel – Came from Indiana and settled on the McLean County line in Kansas Twp. in 1828, with brother Robert, the earliest in the area, except for the Stouts in Greene Twp. who came that year. (See Gershom Harvey.)

PIERCE, John B. – Came from New York and moved to Palestine Twp. from Gridley Twp. after his marriage to Margaret J. Shepherd in the 1850's. Two children: Henry W. and Caleb B. Pierce. John B. enlisted in Company B. 88th Illinois Voluntary Infantry in the Civil War, and died of disease in September, 1864. His wife subsequently married Anderson Van Scyoc.

PIERCE, Mr. and Mrs. M. J. – Came from Virginia to Woodford County in 1841 and later settled on the W 1/2 of the NW 1/4 in Section 34, east of the Centennial Church. Mrs. Pierce continued to farm after Mr. Pierce died.

PLACKETT, Jesse – Came to Woodford County from England in 1853, and sometime thereafter settled on the E 1/2 of the NW 1/4 in Section 22 of Panola Twp.

PLATT, Benonia and Jane Hamm Platt – Benonia died in 1860 and is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery on the Geiger lot. He was a relative of Christian Geiger and an active member in the early Methodist Church in Panola Circuit. His wife later married Charles Clute.

PLEASANTS, Lewis Calvin and Rebecca Williams (1838-1906) – Lewis was born in Virginia on March 3, 1836 and died in El Paso, May 30, 1906 and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery. He first came to Woodford County in October, 1856 and was so pleased with the country that he remained. He wrote his family from Gabetown and they came on from Virginia the next fall. He purchased his first land, probably a wood lot, December 18, 1858 from James Hammers.

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