BASTROP ADVERTISER, 11/8/1898
OBITUARY
Mrs. S. L. S. Hill, nee Oliver, was born in Elbert County, GA, November
26th, 1821.
In 1837, her parents moved to Mississippi, where she lived till her marriage
to Mr. T. B. J. Hill, August 27th, 1840. Immediately after their marriage,
the young couple started on their long trip over land to their new home in
Texas.
In November they arrived in lower Hill's Prairie, spending the time till
their own cabin was ready for occupancy with the family of Mr. Middleton
Hill.
Here, with the inexperience of a tenderly matured child, Mrs. Hill took
up the serious duties of life amid surroundings that might well tax the most
experienced.
From the elegant mansion with its few cultured inmates, she came to a
log cabin that must accommodate every passing traveler and
frontiersman.
From a life of ease and security, she came to one of responsibility and
danger, but, with the energy which was one of her marked characteristics,
she grappled with the difficulties of the situation, winning victory from
defeat.
Mrs. Hill was a woman of great natural powers which were cultivated by
early education and by subsequent travel and experience; and, in her later
years, her graphic accounts of her early life in Texas were the delight of
her hearers.
The constant presence of friendly Indians, and the no less constant dread
of hostile hands, taxed her fortitude to the utmost. In 1842 the increasing
hostilities between Mexico and the Republic of Texas were a great menace
to Texans, and at the urgent solicitation of her husband, Mrs. Hill made
a visit to her parents in Mississippi.
On her return, even the streets of Houston were impassable for vehicles
and, in her anxiety to reach home, she came from Houston to lower Hill's
Prairie on horse back, carrying on her lap her oldest child, an infant of
six months now Capt. Tom Hill, of
Weimar.
Many of the sloughs and water courses were impassable except by wide detours
over the black mud of the prairies, and in the long ride she sometimes traveled
for miles without seeing land.
She made other and less adventurous visits to her childhood's home before
her father's death, which occurred in
1850.
She was the last survivor of a family of fifteen brothers and sisters.
In the summer of 1850, with her husband and family, she removed to the town
of Bastrop, remaining there for seven years, when they returned to their
country home in lower Hill's Prairie.
Mrs. Hill was converted at a camp meeting in 1841 or 1842 and joined the
Methodist Church of which she remained a steadfast member till her death.
She was active in church work, having been President of the Aid Society in
the church in Weimar for twenty years.
Her house was always the preacher's home. Such en as J. W. Whipple and
I. G. John found there a heaven of rest and good cheer, after their toilsome
and dangerous rounds.
She had old fashioned shouting religion; and, in the later years of her
life, we who enjoyed the privilege of intimate association with her were
sensibly impressed by the ripening and spiritualizing of her powers. The
slight tokens of advancing age were more than counterbalanced by the peace
and joy of conscious acceptance with God. Her faith had almost become sight,
and she only grieved that it was not granted her to see her prayers answered
for the conversion of friends and loved
ones.
She had only two children, Capt. Tom Hill, of Weimar and Mr. D O Hill of Smithville, both still
living.
After her husband's death, which occurred May 6th, 1873, she divided her
time between these two, though her adopted daughters and a host of relatives
and friends claimed an annual visit, and were urgent in their solicitation.
At the time of her death, she was visiting Mrs. S. R. Jones, of Smithville,
her widowed grand daughter, continuing to the last a custom that had become
a habit. Which was to go to the house of mourning, bring comfort and sympathy
to the sorrowing.
She was buried beside her husband in what is known as the Hunt Graveyard
in Bastrop County, and we know, "It is well with her."
We miss the gracious presence, the kindly interest, the loving sympathy,
the spiritual uplift of her companionship, but we grieve only for
ourselves.
She rests in the blest land where there is no more pain, neither sorrow
nor sighing, and where - "The inhabitant shall not say I am sick." L. H.
HILL
OBITUARY
Mrs. S. L. S. Hill, nee Oliver, was born in Elbert County, GA, November
26th, 1821.
In 1837, her parents moved to Mississippi, where she lived till her marriage
to Mr. T. B. J. Hill, August 27th, 1840. Immediately after their marriage,
the young couple started on their long trip over land to their new home in
Texas.
In November they arrived in lower Hill's Prairie, spending the time till
their own cabin was ready for occupancy with the family of Mr. Middleton
Hill.
Here, with the inexperience of a tenderly matured child, Mrs. Hill took
up the serious duties of life amid surroundings that might well tax the most
experienced.
From the elegant mansion with its few cultured inmates, she came to a
log cabin that must accommodate every passing traveler and
frontiersman.
From a life of ease and security, she came to one of responsibility and
danger, but, with the energy which was one of her marked characteristics,
she grappled with the difficulties of the situation, winning victory from
defeat.
Mrs. Hill was a woman of great natural powers which were cultivated by
early education and by subsequent travel and experience; and, in her later
years, her graphic accounts of her early life in Texas were the delight of
her hearers.
The constant presence of friendly Indians, and the no less constant dread
of hostile hands, taxed her fortitude to the utmost. In 1842 the increasing
hostilities between Mexico and the Republic of Texas were a great menace
to Texans, and at the urgent solicitation of her husband, Mrs. Hill made
a visit to her parents in Mississippi.
On her return, even the streets of Houston were impassable for vehicles
and, in her anxiety to reach home, she came from Houston to lower Hill's
Prairie on horse back, carrying on her lap her oldest child, an infant of
six months now Capt. Tom Hill, of
Weimar.
Many of the sloughs and water courses were impassable except by wide detours
over the black mud of the prairies, and in the long ride she sometimes traveled
for miles without seeing land.
She made other and less adventurous visits to her childhood's home before
her father's death, which occurred in
1850.
She was the last survivor of a family of fifteen brothers and sisters.
In the summer of 1850, with her husband and family, she removed to the town
of Bastrop, remaining there for seven years, when they returned to their
country home in lower Hill's Prairie.
Mrs. Hill was converted at a camp meeting in 1841 or 1842 and joined the
Methodist Church of which she remained a steadfast member till her death.
She was active in church work, having been President of the Aid Society in
the church in Weimar for twenty years.
Her house was always the preacher's home. Such en as J. W. Whipple and
I. G. John found there a heaven of rest and good cheer, after their toilsome
and dangerous rounds.
She had old fashioned shouting religion; and, in the later years of her
life, we who enjoyed the privilege of intimate association with her were
sensibly impressed by the ripening and spiritualizing of her powers. The
slight tokens of advancing age were more than counterbalanced by the peace
and joy of conscious acceptance with God. Her faith had almost become sight,
and she only grieved that it was not granted her to see her prayers answered
for the conversion of friends and loved
ones.
She had only two children, Capt. Tom Hill, of Weimar and Mr. D O Hill of Smithville, both still
living.
After her husband's death, which occurred May 6th, 1873, she divided her
time between these two, though her adopted daughters and a host of relatives
and friends claimed an annual visit, and were urgent in their solicitation.
At the time of her death, she was visiting Mrs. S. R. Jones, of Smithville,
her widowed grand daughter, continuing to the last a custom that had become
a habit. Which was to go to the house of mourning, bring comfort and sympathy
to the sorrowing.
She was buried beside her husband in what is known as the Hunt Graveyard
in Bastrop County, and we know, "It is well with her."
We miss the gracious presence, the kindly interest, the loving sympathy,
the spiritual uplift of her companionship, but we grieve only for
ourselves.
She rests in the blest land where there is no more pain, neither sorrow
nor sighing, and where - "The inhabitant shall not say I am sick." L. H.
HILL
BASTROP ADVERTISER, 11/8/1898
OBITUARY
Mrs. S. L. S. Hill, nee Oliver, was born in Elbert County, GA, November
26th, 1821.
In 1837, her parents moved to Mississippi, where she lived till her marriage
to Mr. T. B. J. Hill, August 27th, 1840. Immediately after their marriage,
the young couple started on their long trip over land to their new home in
Texas.
In November they arrived in lower Hill's Prairie, spending the time till
their own cabin was ready for occupancy with the family of Mr. Middleton
Hill.
Here, with the inexperience of a tenderly matured child, Mrs. Hill took
up the serious duties of life amid surroundings that might well tax the most
experienced.
From the elegant mansion with its few cultured inmates, she came to a
log cabin that must accommodate every passing traveler and
frontiersman.
From a life of ease and security, she came to one of responsibility and
danger, but, with the energy which was one of her marked characteristics,
she grappled with the difficulties of the situation, winning victory from
defeat.
Mrs. Hill was a woman of great natural powers which were cultivated by
early education and by subsequent travel and experience; and, in her later
years, her graphic accounts of her early life in Texas were the delight of
her hearers.
The constant presence of friendly Indians, and the no less constant dread
of hostile hands, taxed her fortitude to the utmost. In 1842 the increasing
hostilities between Mexico and the Republic of Texas were a great menace
to Texans, and at the urgent solicitation of her husband, Mrs. Hill made
a visit to her parents in Mississippi.
On her return, even the streets of Houston were impassable for vehicles
and, in her anxiety to reach home, she came from Houston to lower Hill's
Prairie on horse back, carrying on her lap her oldest child, an infant of
six months now Capt. Tom Hill, of
Weimar.
Many of the sloughs and water courses were impassable except by wide detours
over the black mud of the prairies, and in the long ride she sometimes traveled
for miles without seeing land.
She made other and less adventurous visits to her childhood's home before
her father's death, which occurred in
1850.
She was the last survivor of a family of fifteen brothers and sisters.
In the summer of 1850, with her husband and family, she removed to the town
of Bastrop, remaining there for seven years, when they returned to their
country home in lower Hill's Prairie.
Mrs. Hill was converted at a camp meeting in 1841 or 1842 and joined the
Methodist Church of which she remained a steadfast member till her death.
She was active in church work, having been President of the Aid Society in
the church in Weimar for twenty years.
Her house was always the preacher's home. Such en as J. W. Whipple and
I. G. John found there a heaven of rest and good cheer, after their toilsome
and dangerous rounds.
She had old fashioned shouting religion; and, in the later years of her
life, we who enjoyed the privilege of intimate association with her were
sensibly impressed by the ripening and spiritualizing of her powers. The
slight tokens of advancing age were more than counterbalanced by the peace
and joy of conscious acceptance with God. Her faith had almost become sight,
and she only grieved that it was not granted her to see her prayers answered
for the conversion of friends and loved
ones.
She had only two children, Capt. Tom Hill, of Weimar and Mr. D O Hill of Smithville, both still
living.
After her husband's death, which occurred May 6th, 1873, she divided her
time between these two, though her adopted daughters and a host of relatives
and friends claimed an annual visit, and were urgent in their solicitation.
At the time of her death, she was visiting Mrs. S. R. Jones, of Smithville,
her widowed grand daughter, continuing to the last a custom that had become
a habit. Which was to go to the house of mourning, bring comfort and sympathy
to the sorrowing.
She was buried beside her husband in what is known as the Hunt Graveyard
in Bastrop County, and we know, "It is well with her."
We miss the gracious presence, the kindly interest, the loving sympathy,
the spiritual uplift of her companionship, but we grieve only for
ourselves.
She rests in the blest land where there is no more pain, neither sorrow
nor sighing, and where - "The inhabitant shall not say I am sick." L. H.
HILL
OBITUARY
Mrs. S. L. S. Hill, nee Oliver, was born in Elbert County, GA, November
26th, 1821.
In 1837, her parents moved to Mississippi, where she lived till her marriage
to Mr. T. B. J. Hill, August 27th, 1840. Immediately after their marriage,
the young couple started on their long trip over land to their new home in
Texas.
In November they arrived in lower Hill's Prairie, spending the time till
their own cabin was ready for occupancy with the family of Mr. Middleton
Hill.
Here, with the inexperience of a tenderly matured child, Mrs. Hill took
up the serious duties of life amid surroundings that might well tax the most
experienced.
From the elegant mansion with its few cultured inmates, she came to a
log cabin that must accommodate every passing traveler and
frontiersman.
From a life of ease and security, she came to one of responsibility and
danger, but, with the energy which was one of her marked characteristics,
she grappled with the difficulties of the situation, winning victory from
defeat.
Mrs. Hill was a woman of great natural powers which were cultivated by
early education and by subsequent travel and experience; and, in her later
years, her graphic accounts of her early life in Texas were the delight of
her hearers.
The constant presence of friendly Indians, and the no less constant dread
of hostile hands, taxed her fortitude to the utmost. In 1842 the increasing
hostilities between Mexico and the Republic of Texas were a great menace
to Texans, and at the urgent solicitation of her husband, Mrs. Hill made
a visit to her parents in Mississippi.
On her return, even the streets of Houston were impassable for vehicles
and, in her anxiety to reach home, she came from Houston to lower Hill's
Prairie on horse back, carrying on her lap her oldest child, an infant of
six months now Capt. Tom Hill, of
Weimar.
Many of the sloughs and water courses were impassable except by wide detours
over the black mud of the prairies, and in the long ride she sometimes traveled
for miles without seeing land.
She made other and less adventurous visits to her childhood's home before
her father's death, which occurred in
1850.
She was the last survivor of a family of fifteen brothers and sisters.
In the summer of 1850, with her husband and family, she removed to the town
of Bastrop, remaining there for seven years, when they returned to their
country home in lower Hill's Prairie.
Mrs. Hill was converted at a camp meeting in 1841 or 1842 and joined the
Methodist Church of which she remained a steadfast member till her death.
She was active in church work, having been President of the Aid Society in
the church in Weimar for twenty years.
Her house was always the preacher's home. Such en as J. W. Whipple and
I. G. John found there a heaven of rest and good cheer, after their toilsome
and dangerous rounds.
She had old fashioned shouting religion; and, in the later years of her
life, we who enjoyed the privilege of intimate association with her were
sensibly impressed by the ripening and spiritualizing of her powers. The
slight tokens of advancing age were more than counterbalanced by the peace
and joy of conscious acceptance with God. Her faith had almost become sight,
and she only grieved that it was not granted her to see her prayers answered
for the conversion of friends and loved
ones.
She had only two children, Capt. Tom Hill, of Weimar and Mr. D O Hill of Smithville, both still
living.
After her husband's death, which occurred May 6th, 1873, she divided her
time between these two, though her adopted daughters and a host of relatives
and friends claimed an annual visit, and were urgent in their solicitation.
At the time of her death, she was visiting Mrs. S. R. Jones, of Smithville,
her widowed grand daughter, continuing to the last a custom that had become
a habit. Which was to go to the house of mourning, bring comfort and sympathy
to the sorrowing.
She was buried beside her husband in what is known as the Hunt Graveyard
in Bastrop County, and we know, "It is well with her."
We miss the gracious presence, the kindly interest, the loving sympathy,
the spiritual uplift of her companionship, but we grieve only for
ourselves.
She rests in the blest land where there is no more pain, neither sorrow
nor sighing, and where - "The inhabitant shall not say I am sick." L. H.
HILL
Gravesite Details
Her obituary proves the Cemetery was called the Hunt Graveyard
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