Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-03-09
IN MEMORIAM.

venerable and lamented townsman
DR.. john Fl. Hill, in the Wilming-
ton Messenger Of Friday;
1t is due to the memory Of DR..
John FL. Hill, who died in Golds-
boro on the 19 Of the lresent
month, and was buried on the fol-
lowing day in Oakdale cemetery,
that more than passing notice
should be taken of his departure
from us. and that some friend
point out the features Of his life
and character, and pay trief
tribute of love and friendship to
his memory.
DIR. Hill was born on the 2Sth
day of April 1907, in the county
of New Hanover, at place on
the Wilmington and Weldon rail-
road, about twelve miles from
Wilmington, called Hyrneham.
He was the son OF Col. Thomas
Hill, of Wilmington, and Susan
MADISON, his wife, and the grandson
of William Hill, a prominent mer-
chant during the Revolution, and
who lies buried at Old Brunswick.
His brothers were the late Thomas
Hill, of Pittsboro, who married a
daughter of Judge Toomer, and
| Mr.. Arthur J. Hill, who married
a daughter of Mr.. John Swami. His
sisters were Margaret, who married
Mr.. Levin Lane; Maria, who mar
ried Mr.. William 81. Hardin,a pop,
nlar educator Alice, who married
Mr.. John H. Haughton, of Pittss
! boro, and Susan, who married
William D, Moseley, a Governor
of Florida. He survived them all
for many years. 1t will thus be
seen that DR.. Hill was related or
connected with mauy of the Oldest
and most respectable and disting~
uished families of the Cape Fear.
He was educated at the University
and afterwards. studied medicine
and graduated at the Medical @ J.
lege in the city of New York. He
practised his profession. however,
only for few years in the county
of Sampson, when he purchased
the Lilliput plantation on the Cape
Fear river below Wilmington, in
the county of Brunswick, where
he devoted his life till the close of
| the war to the cultivation of rice.
Energy and good management
soon converted that plantation into
state of development and pros
ductiveness far beyond its supposed
capacity, and his vigilance, fores
thought and sagacity made him
ope of the largest, and perhaps the
most successful planter on the
Cape Fear. After the war he sold
out his plantation and his outfit,
and retired from active business to
the town of Clinton, in the county
of Sampson, which he considered
healthy, and where living was
cheap, and the society good. A
few years afterwards he removed
to Goldsboro and spent the re-
malnder OF his days in the family
of his son, John,~ to whom, and to
whose wife and children he was
greatly attached, and who had ever
shown him peculiarly con-
siderate and tender love and care
This association gave him all the
| substantial comfort and pleasure
of home. In 1887 he lost his wife,
by whom he had three sons, who
survive him. He never MARI
ried again, and to the day of his
death cherished her memory, and
always spoke of her with greatest
respect. Singly and alone he
reared his sons, He early won
their respect and love, and by his
careful training, and by the ex.
ample aad influence OF his own
dignified lite, they grew up to
mans estate gentlemen, good
men, Christians, and bear in their
very persons the stamp of true
gentility. At his home at Lilliput
he never Lad hcusekeeper, but
only men servants about the house:
These were perfectly trained in
every art and convenience of house
keeping, and in their manner of
service. He had around him every
comfort and luxury which coun-
try home could require /; and he
delighted in dispensing hospitality.
The comforts of his home, and es.
pecially the delicacies of his table
no one can forget, who ever enjoyed
them. He knew perfectly how
every thing ought to be made,
and how everything ought to be
done, and under his own super-
vision everything was done and
made that way. DR.. Hill was a
man of very uncommon mental
gifts, OF the quickest perception. of
very great powers of discrimina-
ton, and had the most tenacious
and retentive memory l ever knew.
He had all his life great taste, as
well as excellent opportunity for
reading, and his reading accord
ingly was varied and extensive.
He never~failing memory and
quick and discriminating mind had
enabled him TO store up vast
fund of useful knowledge upon
every subject, in religion, in polie
tics, in science, in literature, and