PHILLIPS, Elizabeth Palmer (Hicks) 1830-1911

PHILLIPS, PALMER, HICKS, TAYLOR, KING

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 1/14/2014 at 01:42:17

[Waterloo Evening Courier, Monday, March 6, 1911, Waterloo, Iowa]

BELOVED WOMAN IN DEATH SLEEP

MRS. ELIZABETH PALMER PHILLIPS AT LIFE'S END

Generous, Christian Lady Succumber Yesterday Morning at 10:40

Mrs. Elizabeth Palmer Phillips, always known among her countless friends as "Aunt Betsy," died yesterday morning at 10:40 o'clock at her home, 620 Fifth Street West. The cause of dissolution was stomach trouble and for the past nine weeks Mrs. Phillips had been critically ill, suffering great physical pain. She had lived the full number of four score years, each year of her life being filled with good deeds and benefactions to those about her. She was a devout Christian woman, becoming a member of the First M. B. church In 1856, under the pastorate of the Rev. Ingham, and submitting to the baptismal rite in the Cedar river.

Mrs. Phillips was generous to a fault and It was her generosity in a subscription of $1,000 that made possible the securing of the grand pipe organ for the First M. E. Church which was destroyed in the fire early Sunday morning. It is a noticeable coincidence that she passed away just at the time the organ would have filled the new church edifice with a volume of music.

The maiden name of Mrs. Phillips was Elizabeth Hicks and she was born in Dovenshlre, England, Nov. 16, 1830, and she was there married to William H. Palmer In 1853. They came to America in 1854, stopping a short while in Chicago. They came to Black Hawk County in the latter year and located on a farm, known as the Cedar Valley Farm, seven miles north of Waterloo. Mr. Palmer died in 1886, in this city. One child was born to this union, but the child did not live to maturity.

The second marriage was contracted with E. P. Phillips in Waterloo Oct. 4, 1894. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips had ample means and their home has long been noted as one of the hospitable centers of the community.
Mr. Phillips survives.

There are surviving Mrs. Phillip's two sisters and five brothers. The sisters are Mrs. H. E. Taylor, 1018 Wellington Street, and Mrs. D. W. King, residing four miles north of Waterloo. The brothers are William Hlcks, 1116 Washington Street; Joseph Hicks of Neche, N. D,; Ezekiel of Brantford, Canada; Stephen P. Hicks of Tracy, Minn., and Thomas P. Hicks of Chicago.

Arrangements for the funeral will not be completed until this evening. An effort is being made to have the services in the uninjured part of the new First M. E. church. Rev. Frank Cole will have charge of the services.