Source: a manuscript on the Phillips family, written by Snyder E. Roberts

Isaiah Phillips, Sr. …was ready for war. If he followed the nearest route, he went through DeArmond‘s Gap (Roane), up Little Emory (River), through Morgan County, and on to Camp Dick Robinson in Kentucky where he volunteered for a 3-year tour of duty in Company E, 1st TN, Infantry on August 20, 1861. Two of his sons, Isaiah Phillips, Jr., and Elias Phillips, and probably a third son, John C. Phillips, also enlisted in the Union Army. Additionally, a son-in-law, John Frank Williams, and a son-in-law-to-be, Charles Goodman Webster, served in the Union Army.

Isaiah Phillips married Martha Solomon. Their daughter, Sophia Phillips, married John Frank Williams. Rev. Isaiah Phillips, Jr., married Martha McGill, Elias Phillips married Malinda Davis, and Sarah Phillips married C. G. Webster. Isaiah Phillips, Sr., married secondly Mahala Henderson. Buried Dyllis Cemetery, Roane Co.