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Phillips, Alzada Avery
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1882-1887
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MSS SC 871
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Jonah Phillips, and Ann Thomas Phillips Family Biographies Third Edition, Volume I
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Alzada Phillips was the eleventh child of Jonah and Ann Thomas Phillips, born on March 31, 1882 in Springville, Utah. She was named after a daughter of the family her mother crossed the plains with. Alzada had a little dog named Bick that she loved to play with and would let chase her around the room before going to bed. While she was still young she contracted diphtheria and died from it on February 17, 1887. She was almost five years old.
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This collection has been assembled by the descendants of the Jonah Phillips Family. The collection is 143 lose sheets in length, containing biographies for Jonah and Ann Phillips and all their children and the wives of their sons. The collection also includes transcripts of obituaries and other essential information. Alzada Phillip's, portion of the collection includes a history of her life by her sister, Adah Jessee, written in May of 1948 and another history written by another sister, Phebe Dowdell, comprising pages 132-133 collectively. Adah's account of her sister is particularly interesting describing Alzada's life and sharing stories from their childhood as they were the closest in age and playmates in their youth. Stories include when Alzada's dog hid her doll in the woodpile and how he brought it back after she scolded him. Another tells of a time when Adah pushed Alzada's head through the dinning room window because she through she had been eating her food. Their mother left the broken glass there for a long time as a reminder. Both accounts detail Alzada's death and the effect that it had on the family. For her older sisters her death was especially hard because they had the task of making her burial cloths and of comforting their parents plus grieving on their own for their sister. Her older sister Zillah even named her first daughter after Alzada.
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