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Isla Garmany Smith born to Isla Selina Garmany & Lemuel Pryor Smith in Tulip, AR (pictured here are Isla Garmany and Lemuel Smith)
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Isla worked as a skilled seamstress prior to her marriage. (Pictured here with her mother, grandmother, and sisters, before marriage)
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Two years before her marriage to HHP, Sr., the Titanic sank off the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
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World War I began in Europe, two years before the US joined and HHP registered for the draft.
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Isla Smith Phillips had 9 children in total. 7 survived to adulthood and became known to their children and grandchildren as "The Magnificent Seven". Her eldest was born in 1914, her youngest born in 1932.
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Isla Smith marries Homer Hodge Phillips, Sr. in Dallas Co., AR
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Isla gave birth to her and HHP's first and eldest son, Phillip Phillips.
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HHP Sr registers for the WWI draft
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In January 1917, Isla gives birth to her second child and son, my great-grandfather, Homer Hodge Phillips, JR.
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The stock market crashed, ushering in the Great Depression - which the Phillips family almost made it through unscathed until their eviction and loss of their farm in 1939.
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In June, Isla gives birth to her 3rd daughter. The baby passed in July of the same year. Having lived such a short time, she was never officially named and her burial marker still reads "Baby Girl Phillips"
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Isla's youngest son, Van Troy, died at the age of 5.
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Due to HHP's undertaking of a second farm, he was unable to pay the taxes on both and the family was evicted from their farm. They relocated to Little Rock.
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World War II begins in Europe. All four of Isla's adult sons joined the military and fought during WWII; Phil, Hodge, Bill, and James
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Isla's son, Homer Hodge Phillips, Jr. was married to my great-grandmother, Erma Geneva Best at Hunter's Chapel in Tulip, AR
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JFK was assassinated one year before Isla and HHP celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary. My aunt has told me the story of how they all sat around in Isla's living room, watching the news, in shock and in tears.
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Isla and HHP, SR celebrate 50 years of marriage
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HHP went into cardiac arrest at the family home on Rock St in Little Rock. He died at the hospital. It was the only time in their 55 years of marriage that they parted without saying "I love you".
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The same year that Isla and HHP died, Buzz Aldrin and Lance Armstrong landed on the moon. They lived to see the first moon landing.
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A little over a month after her husband's death, Isla passed away on Halloween at St. Vincent's in Little Rock, AR. Her granddaughter attributes it to a broken heart.
