George Washington Hill (1849-1907)

HILL, HIARING

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 2/12/2025 at 22:40:25

From Jewell Record January 31, 1907 (page 4)

DEATH OF PIONEER OF CO.

George W. Hill, Respected And Well-To-Do Farmer Died Suddenly Last Night

HOLD FUNERAL TOMORROW P. M.

George W. Hill, one of Hamilton county's pioneers and most respected farmers, died last night at 7:30, death coming suddenly and with little warning. It was with something of a real shock that the news of his death as heard here last evening, when at about eight o'clock the word was passed from lip to lip that he was dead. For the past year Mr. Hill had been in an evidently failing condition, and of late his health had been far from good. He was up, and around however, and no one suspected the cord that bound him to this earthly life was so near severed. After partaking of supper yesterday evening he head experienced a temporary feeling of weakness, but soon recovered. Later he lay down upon a sofa to rest, and there passed away. Dr. Wyatt, of Kamrar, who was called pronounced death due to heart failure.

George W. Hill settled in Hamilton county in August of 1880, and for over twenty-six years has resided upon the farm four miles north of Jewell on which he lived to the time of his death. He lacked one day of being fifty-eight years of age at the time of death. He was known and respected throughout the county as one of the most industrious and successful farmers of the county, a man whose word was bond and whose integrity was unquestioned. His uprightness, honor, and industry had won for him the trust and respect of everyone who knew him, and had brought him a well earned degree of material prosperity. He was at the time of his dearth a director of the First National Bank of Jewell. He was a member of two fraternal orders, the I. O. O. F. and the A. O. U. W. As a business man and a friend his loss will be widely mourned.

George W. Hill is survived by his wife and nine children, seven sons and two daughters. The sons are Cassibianaca, of Thurston, Neb.; Claude, of Karmrar; Cecil, of Lehigh; and Clay, Clarence, Cyrus and Calvin, all four of whom reside at home. The daughters are Mrs. Myrtle Hiaring, wife of A. H. Hiaring of this vicinity, and Miss May who lives at home. One son, Clark, preceded him to the great beyond, dying when a child of two years of age.

The funeral services will be held tomorrow, and will be conducted from the home at one-thirty o'clock under the direction of the local lodge A. O. U. W. The funeral sermon will probably be delivered by Rev. G. O. Porter, although positive arrangements had not been made at the time of going to press. The remains will be interred in the vault in the Jewell cemetery.