The Hilpert family
Phillip Henrich Hilpert
July 23, 1883 – March 15, 1932
Phillip Henrich Hilpert was born on the Hilpert farm on July 23, 1883. He farmed alongside his brother Otto.
- Parents
- David August Hilpert & Magdalena Hilpert
- Spouse
- Alice Caroline Padham
Married 1915 - Children
- Frederick Phillip Hilpert Sr. · Evelyn Lorraine Hilpert · Beulah Carol Hilpert
He died on March 15, 1932. His death was ruled an accidental drowning in the Skookumchuck River.
Phillip married Alice Caroline Padham in 1915. Their three children were Frederick Phillip Hilpert Sr., Evelyn Lorraine Hilpert and Beulah Carol Hilpert.
Remembered by their daughter
Beulah Carol Hilpert preserved memories of school, family outings and life on the farm in her own memoir. Read her introduction to this part of the family story.
Places in a Life
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Phillip Henrich Hilpert
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Profile explicitly records birth on the Hilpert farm; David’s public biography locates the farm north of Centralia. Marker precision: town area; farm sites are not pinpointed.
Source for this placeAt-home album photograph names Phillip among the children. Marker precision: town area; farm sites are not pinpointed.
Source for this place
Adult farming alongside Otto is explicit but not separately dated as a residence on this profile; photographs establish farm work, not every intervening home year.
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Otto’s sibling
Family connections
Otto · Reinhold Hilpert · Selma Anna Hilpert · Elizabeth Hedwig Hilpert · Pauline Magdalena Hilpert · Hannah Hilpert Schaefer · Helena Christina Hilpert
Photographs and memories
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All related album pages (15)
- The Hilpert family outside their log house in 1892
- The Hilpert family, taken July 10, 1892
- About 1897 - The Hilpert Boys: Otto, Phillip, Reinhold, Carl Pitzer Sr. (?), & David August Hilpert.
- Phillip Henrich Hilpert, 1901.
- Phillip and Alice Hilpert, wedding portrait, 1915.
- Probably about 1915. In front of Mother Hilpert’s home. Those identified on porch Hattie Teeter and Selma Wagner and Grandma Hilpert. On steps: probably: Alonzo, Harold & Selma Teeter, Lona Pitzer sitting next to post and Phillip below with Freddie Hilpert.
- In front of the Hilpert farm house in 1912. Back Row (Left to Right): George Pitzer, Carl Pitzer, Otto, Fred Schaefer, Phillip, Carl Pitzer Jr., Bob Teeter, Magdalena Middle Row (Left to Right): Joe Shirer, Lona Pitzer, Pauline, Leonora, Selma, Hattie, Hannah and Hilpert Schaefer (b.1899) There are three children in front. From left to right, they are Harold Teeter (b.1906), Little Selma Teeter (b.1904), and Alonzo Teeter (b.1903).
- Otto driving and Phillip holding the scraper while leveling the ground after taking out the stumps. March 17, 1919.
- Otto driving and Phillip holding the scraper while leveling the ground after taking out the stumps. March 17, 1919.
- Otto and Phillip making hay. August 1st, 1919.
- Otto and Phillip loading hay. 1920.
- Aug. 1926: Selma, Helena, Reinhold, Hannah, Otto, Pauline, Phillip, Hattie.
- Aug. 1930: Phillip, Hattie, Grandma Hilpert, Helen, Otto & Selma.
- 1930 Otto & Phillip on the binder.
- PHILLIP AND ALICE HILPERT
Stories and captions drawn from Eileen Townsend’s family album.