The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-06-20
Mrs. Isabel Ellis Hill.

Isabel J. Ellis entered into mortal life
in Hillsboro, Ohio, October, 1887, and
entered into immortal life from West
Pullman, Illinois, May 13, 1895.
The subject of this sketch was the
second daughter OF John P. Ellis and
Mrs. Eleanor Ellis, we'll and worthily
known to many of the elder citizens OF
Hillsboro.
My own earliest thought of Isabel j.
Ellis is of dark eyed, resolute, sweet.
spirited girl, with whom, in happy COM
radie the walks to and from Ashland
were often taken.
Her girlish ambition was for thor.
ough education.
As student she was capable, earnest
and conscientious, and, with her honor,
won her way into the ranks of the
"parchmented" in the Oakland class Of
1854. Later, two other sisters are calen.
dered with the alumni.
The autumn following graduation she
became teacher in the public schools
of Hillsboro. Her pupils hold her teach.
ing in loving remembrance. In Janu.
ary, 1857, she was united in marriage to
Mr.. j. B. Hill, then resident of Hills.
boro.
In 1861, at his country's call, Mr..
Hill, as Captain of Company in the
Goth o. v. T., went to the front; his
young wife, meanwhile, quietly, heroic
war matron as she was, kept home for
herself and little ones.
In the later "sixties" Mr.. Hill remov.
ed to Illinois.
While their home was in Onarga, ILL.,,
was for few days their guest. The
cultured, Christian society of this semi
nary town was wholly congenial to Mrs.
Hill here the most steadfast friendships
of the maturer life we're formed, and the
exceptional educational advantages were
utilized in the interest of her i've sons
and four daughters.
Early in the "nineties" the family re-.
moved to one of the environs of Chicago.
Here many of her friends saw her dur.
ing the Worlds Fair. Engrossing as
were her responsibilities at that time,
yet to her guests and personal friends
she gave restful companionship.
Later, was removal to West Pull.
man for permanent abiding, where a
lovely new home was secured.
About this time Mrs. Hills health
was the occasion OF some solicitude, but
such was her vigor of physique and Sc.
renity of spirit that her friends were
sanguine of ultimate recovery. Hence,
the telegram of ten days ago that she
was alarmingly i'll, came with startling
surprise.
1t is pleasant to us to know that
thoughts Of the alumni fitted through
her feverish fancies, in her last hours.
Yesterday week, her spirit passed from
the loved earthly home to the abiding
and heavenly one. The graceful woman
of our sketch is but the outcome of
forces wisely utilized.
Inc soul OF all thlngs sacred, pure ana
true found home in her life. ONLY from
such seed, with such culture and such
sunlight from above can such truitage
have grown and ripened into such per-
fectness of its kind.
For her bereaved husband and for her
beloved children, whose consolation is
in their love for her, and for one dear
sister alumna, Mrs. Anna Ellis Fuller,
to whose rich voice and kindly spirit
our June reunions owe much OF interest,
we have most heartfelt sympathy.
"Swiftly and surely the hour will come,
When, dropping the load Of care,
We, too, shall wing to the better home
And be found of the loved one there.
For the family life and the family love
Are safe in the Fathers thought,
And one and all to his home above,
Shall his ransomed at last be brought"