The History of Hendricks County (Chicago: Interstate Publishing, 1885)--Clay Township, pages 557-558
Samuel Phillips, deceased, was one of the pioneers of 1836. He was born in 1808, in North Carolina, a son of John S. and Sally Phillips, who emigrated from Forsyth County, N.C., to Wayne County, Ind., where the father died, and in 1836 the mother and two unmarried children, Samuel and Sally, came to Hendricks County, and settled on section 4, Clay Township. Samuel bought a tract of land, but a few acres, of which had been cleared of the timber, and on it a small log cabin had been built. This land he cleared and improved and made his home till his death, in July, 1880, and it is still the home of his widow and younger children. He was married in 1839 to Rachel Newman, a native of Randolph County, N.C., born in 1818, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Newman, who came to Hendricks County in 1837, and settled in Franklin Township, where they both died. To Mr. and Mrs. Phillips were born seven children--Jonathan F.; Susanna E., wife of Enoch Harlan; Lewis A.; Sally M., wife of William Shirley; John N., Oliver P. and Emery E. Mr. Phillips in an early day hauled a load of wheat to Lawrenceburg, which he sold for $9.00, the time occupied in going and returning being fourteen days.