Friday 29 May 2020

Phillips - Rogers


Caroline Rogers was the daughter of Laban Rogers & Jane E Sincerbox. She was born in 1836 at Beekman, NY and she married Joseph White Phillips who hailed from East Fishkill, NY.

courtsey of the Fishkill Historical Society
Joseph was the only son of Elias Phillips and Elizabeth Northrup and he was a farmer who got into the dairy business before he retired comfortably.

The Putnam County Courier, Fri, 17 Mar 1905
Joseph Phillips died in East Fishkill on Thursday of last week of bronchitis and heart trouble in his seventieth year. He was buried on Monday in the Hopewell Cemetery. His mother was Betsey Northup, an aunt of the late W D Northup, Mrs J T Barrett and of the Misses Elizabeth and Jennie Nichols, this village.

 

courtesy of Alan - Find A Grave
Unknown Paper, New York, 1909
Mrs Caroline Phillips died on Sunday, Nov 28th, at her home in Poughkeepsie, aged 73 years. She was born in Beekman, Dutchess Co, and was a daughter of Laban and Jane (Sincerbox) Rogers. On 6 Nov 1856, she was married to Joseph W Phillips, of East Fishkill, and her married life was spent on a farm in that town. After her husband's death, she moved to Poughkeepsie, where she had resided four years. Her husband was the only child of Elias and Elizabeth Northrup Phillips, and he was a cousin of the Misses Elizabeth and Jennie Nichols, and Mrs John T Barrett of Carmel, and of the late J Frank Nichols; also of the late W D Northrup, of Kent. She is survived by one brother, Charles E Rogers, the real estate dealer, of Poughkeepsie, and one sister, Mrs Thomas Wright of LaGrange. Funeral at Reformed Church, Hopewell.

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