John Phebis
John Phebis, a native of Kentucky, who was an early settler at Yankeetown, Fayette County. Ohio, from whence he came to Madison County and settled on the land where Judge E. O. Fitzgerald now lives, in 1807. Mr. Phebis was a great hunter and devoted himself principally to that occupation; was a lively, jovial man, yet a very sociable neighbor and a good citizen. But as this county became settled up, and the game scarce, he desired better and more extensive hunting grounds, and he removed West to the Ozark Mountains in Missouri, he subsequently, became a settler in Indiana, where he died, and some of his children still reside in that State.
From History of Madison County - W. H. Beers [Chicago, 1883]