The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-01-02
DEATH OF JUDGE e. G. HILL.
He Died Christmas Day After a
Long and Useful Life.


after a pilgrimage of eighty-one years
on earth, the noble spirit of Eli G. Hill
took its flight into the great beyond.
For more than half century he was
a busy actor in the affairs that engage
the thought and time of men. These
long years being embraced in the most
important historical period of his state
and country, many and swift were the
changes taking place, and as numerous
and weighty were the questions to be
solved and the duties to be met. Yet,
with Spartan courage and with the
genius of fine judgement and sturdy
intellect he went through them all as
a man, and turned off the work of his
hands as one by one they were COM
pleted, with a readiness and effective
ness which it is pride to his family
and friends to remember.
Judge Hill, as he was universally
known, was man of rare good sense.
great energy, and exalted character
His every instinct was that of a gen
tleman. He was man of great force
of character and strong personality,
characterized always by an mate cOur-
tesy and thoughtful consideration for
the feelings and interests of others.
He dispensed an abundant though a
silent and transformations charity.
A man having such an endowment
could not fail to make his. mark in the
world. He, therefore, made his impress
upon those among whom he moved, land
amassed an ample fortune. He was of
that highest and best type OF southern
gentleman that made this section the
greatest of a great country-one of
those courtly, cultured and opulent
fine old gentlemen that made the south
illustrious
Judge Hill was born in Baldwin
county, Georgia, January 2, 1920, and
finished his education at Oglethorpe
University, then fourishing institu-
ton of learning at Midway, near Mil
ledgeville, with the late General Phil
Cook and others of Georgia's distin-
guished sons. At the age of sixteen
he entered the army and served during
one of the Creek Indian wars, doing
duty in the section of country which
is now Stewart county, and also here
is the immediate section where he
afterwards made his home and lived
SO many years
Returning from the army he was
variously employed at his fathers
home until 1899, when he, moved to
Lee, now Terrell county. Here from
the unbroken forest he hewed out a
fine plantation of fertile broad acres,
upon which he reared one of those fine
old country homes so famous in the
south in antebellum days.
Oct. 2, 1912, after he had made for
her a home in the then new country,
he married Miss Ann V. Paris, of
Warrenton, Ca, who had recently
taken her diploma in the second class
that graduated from Wesleyan Female
College at Macon, Ca, the first female
college in the world.
Coming to their new home this
strong man and fair woman began the
battle of life. How we'll they succeed
ed their family of manly boys and
lovely daughters, their admiring
friends and their ample material sue
cess all attest. Here they continued
to live until the death of Mrs. Hill in
1889, when the family moved to Bron-
wood. In those early days the subject
of our sketch was variOusly engaged in
agriculture, public duties, social rela-
tions and the pleasures of the chase,
which in that day was the sport OF the
country gentleman.
Judge Hill did many public duties,
although he never sought Office. He
was chairman of the board of jury com
missioners of the county ten or twelve
years, was one of the judges oj the in
ferior court for a good many years.
was one of the board which had charge
of the poor and widows during the
civil war, and was elected without OPP
position-being spontaneously called
out by the peOple-tO the legislature of
the state in 1873, all of which positions
he filled to his credit and the eminent
satisfaction of his people. Thus lived
this good and useful man, leaving to
community and county an example of
uprightness ard honor seldom equaled,
and to his children the heritage of
good name, redolent of chivalry, known
personal purity and cleanness.
And white his children lavish on his
memory the love of bereaved hearts
the writer begs the privilege to pour,
as it were, upon his bier the fragrance
of friendship unbroken for more
than thirty years. A FRIEND.