Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-04-12

v. iiiiir wife Of DIR. John r. Hill.
4 It's With no common feelings of sorrow
that we record today the death Of Mrs. Hill.
Having Always lived in this city, and pos
sess'Ds naturally happy and lovsbIe dis
position she had won 70 herself a vile cir
Gle Of friends who join with her .r,a.e.iiaae
family in the deep grief which comes to
them with her sudden demise.
i Death is at all times sudden and terribl..
and We are never ready for that moment
which reaches the boundary iiae be-
tween life and the eternity beyond /:
nnt such blow comes with reioubied
force when one in good health and enjoy
ing every day a. day of sunshine and
pleasure, with no warning signal, is taken
from our midst II was only bur a dav or
more ago that Mrs. Hill was With Us, in IA.
'uii Hush Of young womanhood, peaceful
and contsnted in life, doing good in han-
hfeds Of ways, and, what Is grander and
nooier, making happy and loved home for
her family. No higher tribute can be paid
to her memory than to say that which il
said most Faithfully that Throughout. her
life while young girl with her parents AIS,
later on as the wife and mother in her own
| nome, she was its centre. its life. its sun
shine. "a 80 az t..
-oniy last week, accompanied by her hus-
band, she visited; New York for few days,
enjoyed to its full extent the brief
vacation which it proved was to be her last
She returned to Augusta last Thursday
suffering with cold which she hal con-
tracted while on her visit TO the metropolis.
FRIDAY the symptoms became alarming. and
on that evening were very dangerous
Laryngitis accompanied by congestion set
IN and for time it was thought that she
you'll live but few hours. Medical sci
ence and remedies proved for time efca-
cious, and il was thought Saturday she was
out OF danger. During the intervening
time, she has appeared stronger, but Mon
lay serious exhaustion of the system be-
came manifest and although every remedy
was applied she failed to rally ami grew
gradually weaker until her death at ten
o'clock Monday Night.
Lizzie Green Hill was born June Sd l~.l7,
and would have been thirty-six on her next
birthday. She was the ons child of Hon
2. o. and Ellen Vickery. She grew up|
among US beautiful child, with all those
characteristics Of a cheerful, contented and
loving disposition which afterwards grew
and became more firmly marked as the
years rolled on. She had happy faculty
of endearing herself to her acquaintance,
and was always most popular with her
school friends in the many years in which
she attended the public schools in this city
She early connected herself with the
Cniversalist church in this city, of which
she has been member many years. Her
religion was Christianity in its broalt st
sense and she firmly believed that there is
no better religion than in doing good works
for others and doing unto others as she
would have them do unto her. Simple in
faith, yet thoroughly sincere her life wa,
that of true Christian.
Throughout her life she has enjoyed o
the fullest extent all the rational enjoy
ments which attend social gatherings, and
she has ever been foremost in the social
pleasures which are given in this city She
graduated from the Augusta High School
in June, 1875 with comparatively large
coded her over the dark river. On the
10Th of May, 1850. she was married TO Hon.
John +. Hill, one of the State senators,
and partner in business with her father
Mr. Vickery They have had one child,
boy now about twelve years old, Percy V.
Hill.
For number of years the family resided
with Mr.. Vickery on Winthrop street, but
in 1855 moved to their present home on
State street where they have hved uliu-
terruptedly until Mrs. Hills death, The
funeral will take place from the Universal
list church Friday afternoon at O'Clock
Rev. Mr.. Leland, of the Winthrop Street
Universalist church officiating, assisted by
Rev. C.. Il Moor.
In closing this notice of the death of one
of the most widely known ladies' in Angus
tn, we can but Join with the hundreds of
others in Offering our sincerest sympathy to
this afflicted family. The blow which is
irreparablc falls heavily on many hearts
connected with her by ties of friendship,
though not of blood. Every member OF
the family has multitude of warm friends
in this vicinity and State, who today wish
that there were some way by which they
could prove how truly they mourn, and
how tcuderly they sympathze with the be
reaved family in the loss which they have
sustained. As the years shall pass by
and the soothing hand of Time shall,
somewhat console the members of the fam
ily. it will be pleasure for them to look
back upon the life of the departed, and to
realize that though she died in comparative
YOUTH her life had been happy one. full
of enioymen, and full of that sweet happi-
ness which comes with an ever widening
circle Of friends, and the know ledge of the
good that was done by her life, The great
es. loss. the hardest to he borne AMI the
one that cannot be replaced is in the home
circle, and yet it is the dearest thought to
he carried with her memory that throughout
her life. from infancy to death, she has
been the making of that truest heaven. Il
happy home created by herself as daughter,
wife and mother.