Floyd Co. Birth Records list Eli R. Philips, b. 7-19-1872, father: Bryant, occ: farmer, mother: Ally, res: Indian Valley. Elza Cox does not list Eli in the family of Bryant and Ally, or anywhere else in his Gen. of Tobias Phillips, so he may have died young. (The book of Floyd Co. Birth & Death records I have ends in 1872.)