The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-31
NOTABLE WOMAN
 DIES IN PULLMAN Mrs. Hamilps Children Are Prominent in Nation SKETCH OF HER LIFE Two Surving Children, Dr. H. M, Hamill and Mrs. Julia Gillespie,
 Present at Funeral in Gull
 man Yesterday

Cullman, August 3o-(Special )-The
 funeral of Mrs. Hamill, who died here yesterday, was held in Cullman today.
 Mrs Anne Jane IIamlll was born near
 Eberton. Ga, October 9, lS1s. and died
 at the home of her daughter. Mrs. GIL
 espie in Culman. on Thursday, August
 20. 1912. Her last illness has extended
 through several weeks and was due chief
 ly to the weakness of extreme old age | She was 93 at death. In her twenty-fourth | year she was married to Rev Edward J. Hamill of the old Alabama conference. Her father was Col. Holman F simmons of Taladega county, a prominent planter
 and contractor. who died in 1870 at her
 home in Auburn. and is Inferred in the
 Auburn cemetery.
 Her mothers maiden name was Sarah
 Burns. lineal descendant of the poet,
 Robert Burns of Scotland. Upon her fathers side she came of revolutionary stock, two of her great uncles being off, ficers in the war the revolution. Gov ernors Pickens ahl Bihb of Alabama, of the earlier governors of the state, were her lSinsmen. of the 10 brothers and sis- ters who comprise the family the young est sister, Mrs Capt. Terry Saxon or Texas, alone survives. Her husband, prominent preacher for many years in Alabama and the west, died In ls9l and was buried at the home of his son. Rob- ert Hamill at Marshall, Ill
 She was the mother of eight children, in the order of age as follows Edward, q noted physician, the chief medical di- rector of the Prudential Insurance coin- pany of Newark. N. J., who died in l9l0; pr. Howard M Hamill who has charge Of the Sunday school of the Methodist Epls- copal church, south, and is chairman of the chief committee of the International Sunday School association. Chalmers r, Hamil, who was state senator at the time of his death at Birmingham; George Cor don, who died in childhood at Auburn during the civil war; Albert Sidney, who died when a college student and Is buried al Blountsvllle; Mrs. Julia Giles pie, editor of the Cullman Tribune Rob- ert Emmett general attorney of the Bal tinore and Ohio railroad, at Cincinnati.
 who died in 1899 and Is buried by the side of his father at Marshall, III.
 An infant daughter, Mary, the third child had died and was buried at Mar ion. Ala, during the pastorate of Rev D. J. Hamill at that place. The two surviving children, Dr. Hamill and Mrs. Gillespie, are present at this time, to- gether with the following named grand children: Judge F. N. Hamtll and wife of Birmingham, and his sisters. Misses Gertrude and Annabel Hamill: Mrs. Sid ney T. Morrow of Nebo, Ky, with her little son, the great grandchild. Other rela tives, on account of great distance. could not arrive in time for the fun eral
 Mrs. Hamill was graduate of the old La Grange, Georgia, college. at time when Doctor. afterward Bishop George r. Pierce was president. Her father was wealthy and her social posi- ton was distinguished. yet she left it all to marry a Methodist preacher upon a small salary and with the hardshtps and limitations of circuit preachers fife She knew both the shadows and lights of the humble parsonage, and was a noble helpmeet to her husband, as thousands of saints, now mostly with her in heaven, could testify. She was a great reader and notable scholar, oh posing always the nobler classics Tor her study and reading She learned French after her 18th year, and was conversant with the finer literature of several languages. She was keenly alive to current events. political,' com merclal educational and otherwise. and was a student and admlrer and parti- san of such men as Gov Woodrow Will. son, candidate for the presidency. and especially William J. Bryan, whom she knew and greatly esteemed. No purer nor abler mind could be found among the women of the south in these re- spects, as not a few distinguished men, like Bishops Hoss. McTyeire and Fitz- gerald have testified. In all things she was a devout Christian and Bible stu dent and Methodist. a dear lover of all Gods people. Protestant and Catholic, Jew and Gentle. black and white, high and low. Her life was strangely long.
 and singularly noble and beautiful The funeral service was conducted at
 the home of the daughtdr at Cullman. Ala. at 3 o'clock D. m, Friday. Au-
 gust 30 1912. by Rev. c. F. Stansell. pa stor Of the Cullman Southern Metho- dist church, assisted by Dr. H. M Ham lin. after which interment was made in
 the Cullman cemetery.