In 1855, Eliza Rector Babb Hill was born in NW Arkansas, in Washington County (near Fayetteville). By 1860, the family was residing in adjacent Crawford County.
During the Civil War, NW Arkansas was turbulent with violence and raids by various parties on families, their food and livestock. Eliza's father, a former justice of the peace, Tristrum Ewen Babb, was murdered in 1864 by "Lone Star," a person known to him.
Eliza would marry and start a family there in Lee Creek, until 1881, when she and her husband, Sam Hill, and children moved to Katemcy, Mason County, Texas.
"Eliza was almost blind by the age of 16, and sewed with a blind person's needle. Eliza cared for her family, doing all her own cooking and house work. After her husband's death in 1923, [in Katemcy, Texas] she moved to California and made her home with her son, Frank Hill. She chose to be buried in Glen Haven Park, near San Fernando, California, rather than in Texas, by her husband Samuel, so that six of her grandsons could carry her casket."
Source for quotes> the "Hill Family Reunion 2000" booklet compiled by Victoria Hill
OBITUARY:
Funeral Conducted for Mrs. Eliza Rector Hill
Funeral services for Mrs. Eliza Rector Hill, 90, a resident of Glendale 19 years, who died Thursday in a Los Angeles hospital, were conducted this afternoon at the Utter-McKinley Jewel City chapel by the Rev. H. Ross Shaffer and interment was in Glenhaven.
Mrs. Hill was a native of Arkansas. She had been in a local rest home for three years. Surviving her are two daughters, Mrs. Nardie Jones and Mrs. Emma McMillan; a son, Frank Hill, 18 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren.
Source> an unnamed, undated newspaper clipping shared by the Frank Hill family
During the Civil War, NW Arkansas was turbulent with violence and raids by various parties on families, their food and livestock. Eliza's father, a former justice of the peace, Tristrum Ewen Babb, was murdered in 1864 by "Lone Star," a person known to him.
Eliza would marry and start a family there in Lee Creek, until 1881, when she and her husband, Sam Hill, and children moved to Katemcy, Mason County, Texas.
"Eliza was almost blind by the age of 16, and sewed with a blind person's needle. Eliza cared for her family, doing all her own cooking and house work. After her husband's death in 1923, [in Katemcy, Texas] she moved to California and made her home with her son, Frank Hill. She chose to be buried in Glen Haven Park, near San Fernando, California, rather than in Texas, by her husband Samuel, so that six of her grandsons could carry her casket."
Source for quotes> the "Hill Family Reunion 2000" booklet compiled by Victoria Hill
OBITUARY:
Funeral Conducted for Mrs. Eliza Rector Hill
Funeral services for Mrs. Eliza Rector Hill, 90, a resident of Glendale 19 years, who died Thursday in a Los Angeles hospital, were conducted this afternoon at the Utter-McKinley Jewel City chapel by the Rev. H. Ross Shaffer and interment was in Glenhaven.
Mrs. Hill was a native of Arkansas. She had been in a local rest home for three years. Surviving her are two daughters, Mrs. Nardie Jones and Mrs. Emma McMillan; a son, Frank Hill, 18 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren.
Source> an unnamed, undated newspaper clipping shared by the Frank Hill family
In 1855, Eliza Rector Babb Hill was born in NW Arkansas, in Washington County (near Fayetteville). By 1860, the family was residing in adjacent Crawford County.
During the Civil War, NW Arkansas was turbulent with violence and raids by various parties on families, their food and livestock. Eliza's father, a former justice of the peace, Tristrum Ewen Babb, was murdered in 1864 by "Lone Star," a person known to him.
Eliza would marry and start a family there in Lee Creek, until 1881, when she and her husband, Sam Hill, and children moved to Katemcy, Mason County, Texas.
"Eliza was almost blind by the age of 16, and sewed with a blind person's needle. Eliza cared for her family, doing all her own cooking and house work. After her husband's death in 1923, [in Katemcy, Texas] she moved to California and made her home with her son, Frank Hill. She chose to be buried in Glen Haven Park, near San Fernando, California, rather than in Texas, by her husband Samuel, so that six of her grandsons could carry her casket."
Source for quotes> the "Hill Family Reunion 2000" booklet compiled by Victoria Hill
OBITUARY:
Funeral Conducted for Mrs. Eliza Rector Hill
Funeral services for Mrs. Eliza Rector Hill, 90, a resident of Glendale 19 years, who died Thursday in a Los Angeles hospital, were conducted this afternoon at the Utter-McKinley Jewel City chapel by the Rev. H. Ross Shaffer and interment was in Glenhaven.
Mrs. Hill was a native of Arkansas. She had been in a local rest home for three years. Surviving her are two daughters, Mrs. Nardie Jones and Mrs. Emma McMillan; a son, Frank Hill, 18 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren.
Source> an unnamed, undated newspaper clipping shared by the Frank Hill family
During the Civil War, NW Arkansas was turbulent with violence and raids by various parties on families, their food and livestock. Eliza's father, a former justice of the peace, Tristrum Ewen Babb, was murdered in 1864 by "Lone Star," a person known to him.
Eliza would marry and start a family there in Lee Creek, until 1881, when she and her husband, Sam Hill, and children moved to Katemcy, Mason County, Texas.
"Eliza was almost blind by the age of 16, and sewed with a blind person's needle. Eliza cared for her family, doing all her own cooking and house work. After her husband's death in 1923, [in Katemcy, Texas] she moved to California and made her home with her son, Frank Hill. She chose to be buried in Glen Haven Park, near San Fernando, California, rather than in Texas, by her husband Samuel, so that six of her grandsons could carry her casket."
Source for quotes> the "Hill Family Reunion 2000" booklet compiled by Victoria Hill
OBITUARY:
Funeral Conducted for Mrs. Eliza Rector Hill
Funeral services for Mrs. Eliza Rector Hill, 90, a resident of Glendale 19 years, who died Thursday in a Los Angeles hospital, were conducted this afternoon at the Utter-McKinley Jewel City chapel by the Rev. H. Ross Shaffer and interment was in Glenhaven.
Mrs. Hill was a native of Arkansas. She had been in a local rest home for three years. Surviving her are two daughters, Mrs. Nardie Jones and Mrs. Emma McMillan; a son, Frank Hill, 18 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren.
Source> an unnamed, undated newspaper clipping shared by the Frank Hill family
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