Son of T. W. Hill and Linda Cobb, husband of Gertie Hill.
Cause of Death - Automobile Accident
Article in The Brea Progress dated Feb 22, 1918
CAR TURNS OVER AND KILLS DRIVER
Brea and the oil fields received the second shock within less than a week when the lifeless body of Thomas Hill was found under his automobile near his home at an early hour last Friday morning. This coming only four days after H. L. Delaney of this place had been instantly killed while at work in the Montebello field brought doubly strong to all the realization of the uncertainty of life.
Thomas Hill was employed by General Petroleum Company in the Olinda field. His duty was to look after the machinery at the different wells on the property. It was supposed that he was on his way to well No. 24 at about 4 o'clock in the morning driving a Ford car, when the fatal mishap occurred. Indications suggest that while traveling a road which runs throuh a cut he in some way lost control of the machine which plunged for several feet up the embankment and then turned over into the road. The driver was caught directly under the car and his life was crushed out, death evidently coming instantly. While on his way to work at about 6 O'Clock Ollie Smith found the wrecked car and the lifeless driver. He at once gave the alarm. Help came and the machine was removed and the lifeless body was taken to McAuley's undertaking establishment in Fullerton.
Obituary:
Funeral services were conducted at McAuley's chapel at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon. Rev Wills of Pasadena officiating. Interment was made at Loma Vista cemetery, the Fullerton Odd Fellows, of which the deceased was a member, having charge of the burial. A large number of the members of the local Oil Field Workers Union were present in a body to pay their last respects to a fellow member and fellow workman. The many sympathizing friends from all parts of the oil field and the numberous floral offerins clearly attested the high esteem in which the deceased was held throughout this section.
Thos. L. Hill was 32 years old. He was born near Huntsville, Ark., and came to California seven years ago, having spent the greater portion of the time since coming west as a resident of Olinda, where he worked for the Union Oil Comapny, and then for the General Petroleum. In the darkened home at Olinda is a widow and four children to mourn the loss of a devoted husband and a loving father.
The deceased is also survived by his father, T.W. Hill, of Huntsville, Ark.; three brothers, Dr. Nobel Jackson Hill of Drake's Creek, Ark.; Benjamin Newton Hill of Redlands, New Mexico, and Jeremiah Greene Hill, formerly of Brea Canyon, but now of the Montebello field. There are also two sisters, Mrs. G. W. Simpson (Emmer Melinda Hill) of Olinda and Mrs. U. S. Fraze (Ruth Elizabeth Hill)of Longs, New Mexico in Roosevelt County.
Cause of Death - Automobile Accident
Article in The Brea Progress dated Feb 22, 1918
CAR TURNS OVER AND KILLS DRIVER
Brea and the oil fields received the second shock within less than a week when the lifeless body of Thomas Hill was found under his automobile near his home at an early hour last Friday morning. This coming only four days after H. L. Delaney of this place had been instantly killed while at work in the Montebello field brought doubly strong to all the realization of the uncertainty of life.
Thomas Hill was employed by General Petroleum Company in the Olinda field. His duty was to look after the machinery at the different wells on the property. It was supposed that he was on his way to well No. 24 at about 4 o'clock in the morning driving a Ford car, when the fatal mishap occurred. Indications suggest that while traveling a road which runs throuh a cut he in some way lost control of the machine which plunged for several feet up the embankment and then turned over into the road. The driver was caught directly under the car and his life was crushed out, death evidently coming instantly. While on his way to work at about 6 O'Clock Ollie Smith found the wrecked car and the lifeless driver. He at once gave the alarm. Help came and the machine was removed and the lifeless body was taken to McAuley's undertaking establishment in Fullerton.
Obituary:
Funeral services were conducted at McAuley's chapel at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon. Rev Wills of Pasadena officiating. Interment was made at Loma Vista cemetery, the Fullerton Odd Fellows, of which the deceased was a member, having charge of the burial. A large number of the members of the local Oil Field Workers Union were present in a body to pay their last respects to a fellow member and fellow workman. The many sympathizing friends from all parts of the oil field and the numberous floral offerins clearly attested the high esteem in which the deceased was held throughout this section.
Thos. L. Hill was 32 years old. He was born near Huntsville, Ark., and came to California seven years ago, having spent the greater portion of the time since coming west as a resident of Olinda, where he worked for the Union Oil Comapny, and then for the General Petroleum. In the darkened home at Olinda is a widow and four children to mourn the loss of a devoted husband and a loving father.
The deceased is also survived by his father, T.W. Hill, of Huntsville, Ark.; three brothers, Dr. Nobel Jackson Hill of Drake's Creek, Ark.; Benjamin Newton Hill of Redlands, New Mexico, and Jeremiah Greene Hill, formerly of Brea Canyon, but now of the Montebello field. There are also two sisters, Mrs. G. W. Simpson (Emmer Melinda Hill) of Olinda and Mrs. U. S. Fraze (Ruth Elizabeth Hill)of Longs, New Mexico in Roosevelt County.
Son of T. W. Hill and Linda Cobb, husband of Gertie Hill.
Cause of Death - Automobile Accident
Article in The Brea Progress dated Feb 22, 1918
CAR TURNS OVER AND KILLS DRIVER
Brea and the oil fields received the second shock within less than a week when the lifeless body of Thomas Hill was found under his automobile near his home at an early hour last Friday morning. This coming only four days after H. L. Delaney of this place had been instantly killed while at work in the Montebello field brought doubly strong to all the realization of the uncertainty of life.
Thomas Hill was employed by General Petroleum Company in the Olinda field. His duty was to look after the machinery at the different wells on the property. It was supposed that he was on his way to well No. 24 at about 4 o'clock in the morning driving a Ford car, when the fatal mishap occurred. Indications suggest that while traveling a road which runs throuh a cut he in some way lost control of the machine which plunged for several feet up the embankment and then turned over into the road. The driver was caught directly under the car and his life was crushed out, death evidently coming instantly. While on his way to work at about 6 O'Clock Ollie Smith found the wrecked car and the lifeless driver. He at once gave the alarm. Help came and the machine was removed and the lifeless body was taken to McAuley's undertaking establishment in Fullerton.
Obituary:
Funeral services were conducted at McAuley's chapel at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon. Rev Wills of Pasadena officiating. Interment was made at Loma Vista cemetery, the Fullerton Odd Fellows, of which the deceased was a member, having charge of the burial. A large number of the members of the local Oil Field Workers Union were present in a body to pay their last respects to a fellow member and fellow workman. The many sympathizing friends from all parts of the oil field and the numberous floral offerins clearly attested the high esteem in which the deceased was held throughout this section.
Thos. L. Hill was 32 years old. He was born near Huntsville, Ark., and came to California seven years ago, having spent the greater portion of the time since coming west as a resident of Olinda, where he worked for the Union Oil Comapny, and then for the General Petroleum. In the darkened home at Olinda is a widow and four children to mourn the loss of a devoted husband and a loving father.
The deceased is also survived by his father, T.W. Hill, of Huntsville, Ark.; three brothers, Dr. Nobel Jackson Hill of Drake's Creek, Ark.; Benjamin Newton Hill of Redlands, New Mexico, and Jeremiah Greene Hill, formerly of Brea Canyon, but now of the Montebello field. There are also two sisters, Mrs. G. W. Simpson (Emmer Melinda Hill) of Olinda and Mrs. U. S. Fraze (Ruth Elizabeth Hill)of Longs, New Mexico in Roosevelt County.
Cause of Death - Automobile Accident
Article in The Brea Progress dated Feb 22, 1918
CAR TURNS OVER AND KILLS DRIVER
Brea and the oil fields received the second shock within less than a week when the lifeless body of Thomas Hill was found under his automobile near his home at an early hour last Friday morning. This coming only four days after H. L. Delaney of this place had been instantly killed while at work in the Montebello field brought doubly strong to all the realization of the uncertainty of life.
Thomas Hill was employed by General Petroleum Company in the Olinda field. His duty was to look after the machinery at the different wells on the property. It was supposed that he was on his way to well No. 24 at about 4 o'clock in the morning driving a Ford car, when the fatal mishap occurred. Indications suggest that while traveling a road which runs throuh a cut he in some way lost control of the machine which plunged for several feet up the embankment and then turned over into the road. The driver was caught directly under the car and his life was crushed out, death evidently coming instantly. While on his way to work at about 6 O'Clock Ollie Smith found the wrecked car and the lifeless driver. He at once gave the alarm. Help came and the machine was removed and the lifeless body was taken to McAuley's undertaking establishment in Fullerton.
Obituary:
Funeral services were conducted at McAuley's chapel at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon. Rev Wills of Pasadena officiating. Interment was made at Loma Vista cemetery, the Fullerton Odd Fellows, of which the deceased was a member, having charge of the burial. A large number of the members of the local Oil Field Workers Union were present in a body to pay their last respects to a fellow member and fellow workman. The many sympathizing friends from all parts of the oil field and the numberous floral offerins clearly attested the high esteem in which the deceased was held throughout this section.
Thos. L. Hill was 32 years old. He was born near Huntsville, Ark., and came to California seven years ago, having spent the greater portion of the time since coming west as a resident of Olinda, where he worked for the Union Oil Comapny, and then for the General Petroleum. In the darkened home at Olinda is a widow and four children to mourn the loss of a devoted husband and a loving father.
The deceased is also survived by his father, T.W. Hill, of Huntsville, Ark.; three brothers, Dr. Nobel Jackson Hill of Drake's Creek, Ark.; Benjamin Newton Hill of Redlands, New Mexico, and Jeremiah Greene Hill, formerly of Brea Canyon, but now of the Montebello field. There are also two sisters, Mrs. G. W. Simpson (Emmer Melinda Hill) of Olinda and Mrs. U. S. Fraze (Ruth Elizabeth Hill)of Longs, New Mexico in Roosevelt County.
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