The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-19
AARON P. HILL KILLED.
Was Ran Down by Passenger Train
While Walking on the Railroad Track
Near Blue Mound, Illinois.
A FORaEn FULTON COUNTY TEACHER.

Aaron p. Hill, aged SO years, II
months, and II days, son of the
late Morgan Hill, of Bethel town
ship, this county, was run down
by passenger train and instantly
killed, while walking on a railroad
track, near Blue Mound, Illinois,
on Thursday the 9Th inst. For the
following account of his life, and
the circumstances attending his
tragic death, we are indebted to
our young friend, Gideon /. Co
Walt, of Decatur, Ill
The deceased, when boy, work
ed on his fathers farm in summer
and attended the public school in
winter until he was about nineteen
years of age, when he began teach
ing school, which vocation he fol-
lowed for twenty years, teaching
IN Pennsylvania, Maryland, Vlr-
ginia, Ohio, and Enthusiastically
conducting, Herewith, a night
school in vocal music.
At the close of his twentieth
year in teaching, Mr.. Hill en-
barked in the grain business in
Illinois-in rather u small way at
first, but later became one of the
largest and most prominent grain
dealers in the Great Corn Belt
owning large elevators in Ston-
nington, Willies and Raymond,
and an interest in the elevators at
Blue Mound, besides having many
other holdings, including a large
farm in Idaho.
Z On the day of the fatal accident
Mr.. Hill went to Stonnington,
four miles south of Blue Mound,
to attend to some business in con-
nection with his elevator in that
town. At five O'Clock in the aft
ernoon, having finished his busl-
ness, he found that he would have
to wait two or three hours for a
train to get home, and rather than
do that, he started to walk home
on the railroad. According to the
coroner's inquest he, when some
distance from Stonnington, heard
u freight train approaching. 1t
being double track, he stepped
across upon tae other track, and
while standing there watching the
freight train pass, passenger
train coming In an opposite direc-
tion, which he could not hear on
account of the noise being made by
the freight, bore down upon him
without moments warning. The
body was thrown over fifty feet
and terribly mangled. His neck,
bota arms, and one leg, were
broken, the abdomen split open, a
cash under the chin, and many
other parts OF the body terribly
bruised. Death was instantane-
Gus.
Early in life, Mr.. Hill identified
himself with the Christian church,
OF which, he ever after was
faithful servant. and a strong
financial supporter. His whole
life was a preparation for death,
his character noble, and his pur-
pose divine. His greatest pleas
ure was bringing happiness to
those less fortunate, and many
were the hamble homes to which
he quietly sent baskets of provls-
ions, clothing aud fuel-or the
mach needed money. While a
careful fnancier, his purse was
always open to every worthy
charity.
Mr.. Hill was unmarried, and one
OF family of nine children, of
which only four survive, namely,
Mrs. George Wilson, of Dott;
Oliver, of Covalt; and Miss Mary
and Moses of Blue Mound, ILL.,
all OF whom we're at the funeral,
except the last named, who has
peen an invalid for the last four
teen years.
ln the profusion of flowers dis
played at his funeral, was a beau |
tlful token from the choir of which
no had been leader for many years.
interment the following Sunday
AZ the Hall cemetery, two miles
from Blue Mound.
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