Della M. LEWIS

  General Notes:

1874-1875 BIRTH of Della M. Lewis

The 1900 census provides "1874" as Della's year of birth, her death certificate "1875"

1880 CENSUS, Ohio, Belmont County, Goshen Township (June 19) ("Della M.," age 5, is with her parents)

1888 DEATH of grandfather, Charles Wheeler Lewis

1893 MARRIAGE of Della M. Lewis and George K. Phillips on December 20 in Belmont County, Ohio by Rev. John W. Eicher

1900 CENSUS, Ohio, Belmont County, Goshen Township, Belmont (no specific date on census page) ("George," age 25, born "November, 1870 in Ohio," occupation, "Miller") (wife "Della," age 24, born "September, 1874 in Ohio") (Della is documented as the mother of 2 children, both children living in the year 1900; she and George had been married 6 years) ("Phillip" on census page)

DIVORCE from husband, George K. Phillips

1909 MARRIAGE (approximate) of Della M. (Lewis) Phillips and Lewis Palmer

1910 CENSUS, Ohio, Belmont County, Goshen Township, Belmont (April 20) (Della is remarried, to Lewis Palmer; in their household are Della's children, Nellie Phillips and William Lewis Phillips; Palmer's children, Russell and Mildred; and Della's brother, William Parks Lewis) (Lewis Palmer, "Merchant, Gen. retail") (Della is shown as the mother of 2 children, 2 children living in the year 1910; she and Lewis had been married 1 year) (Both Della and Lewis are documented as having been married previously)

1920 CENSUS, Ohio, Belmont County, Goshen Township, Belmont (January 3) ("Lewis S.," age 55, "Merchant, General Store") (wife "Della M.," age 45, "Cigar Maker, Cigar Factory")

DIVORCE from Lewis S. Palmer

1930 CENSUS, Ohio, Franklin County, Columbus (April 7) ("Della M.," age 55, widow, "Saleslady, Novelty Store," is "mother-in-law" in the household of her daughter "Nell" and son-in-law, "Charles E. Kiger")

1939 DEATH, Della M. (Lewis) (Phillips) Palmer, at 63 years 9 months 26 days (according to an 1875 year of birth)

Cause of death: "Cerebral hemorrhage" --death certificate

Della was divorced at the time of her death




DOCUMENT: State of Ohio Death Certificate No. 40776 for Della M. Phillips Palmer signed by her brother, Charles W. Lewis



BOOK: CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO and Representative Citizens, Edited and Compiled by Hon. A. T. McKelvey, Biographical Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1903, page 764 re George K. Phillips, as follows:


GEORGE K. PHILLIPS, postmaster at Glencoe, Richland township, Belmont County, and chief clerk of the Belmont Coal Company at this point, and well known through his participation in other business enterprises, was born in Goshen Township, near Belmont, in 1870, being a son of Ralph W. and Margaret (Dermott) Phillips.

Ralph W. Phillips was born in 1834, in Goshen township and is a representative farmer of Belmont County. For 20 years he was a successful teacher and for 11 years has been township trustee. His wife was born in 1836, in Ireland. At the age of ten years she came to America with her parents, Thomas and Margaret Dermott, who now reside in Goshen township. The children born to our subject's parents were: William, who died at the age of three years; Jennie, who married Edward C. Michael, United States Express agent, at Bellaire, and they have two children; Lawrence, who operates a well drill, resides at Belmont--he married Rachel Eckles and they have four children; and George K.

George K. Phillips obtained his education in the public schools at Belmont, and was 16 years old when he taught his first term of school, at Wood Grove, Union township, and continued to teach at the one place for three successive years. For a period he successfully operated a farm in Belmont County and then became the owner and operator of the Belmont Roller Mills, remaining with this plant for four years. In February, 1902, he was made chief clerk of the Belmont Coal Company, and for 18 months previous to this date he was head shipping clerk of the Bellaire Bottle Company. He was appointed postmaster of Glencoe in 1902. In politics he is an active Republican and takes much interest in the success of the candidates and measures of this party.

In 1894, Mr. Phillips was married to Della M. Lewis, who was born in Goshen township, a daughter of John I. and Mary J. Lewis, and two children have been born to this union, viz.: Nellie M., born in 1896, and William, in 1899. Mr. Phillips is an enterprising and successful business man, who is awake to the demands of the times, and through stability of character enjoys the confidence of his employers as well as the public.




Page created 2006 ~ Updated 2009

Della married George K. PHILLIPS, son of Ralph W. PHILLIPS and Margaret DERMOTT, on December 20, 1893 in Belmont County, Ohio. (George K. PHILLIPS was born on November 24, 1870 in Belmont County, Ohio.)

Della next married Lewis S. PALMER. (Lewis S. PALMER was born about 1865 in Ohio.)