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Submitted
by Michele Napoli
Obits - Nancy
Hill
Waynesburg Republican
March 19, 1879
Mrs.
Nancy Hill
The subject of this notice died at the residence of her son, Thomas
Hill, Jr., near Blacksville in West Virginia, last Friday night, aged
seventy-two years. She left Waynesburg three weeks ago last
Saturday and went to the place where she died, in not very good health,
and took a severe cold soon after that brought on pseumonia which
terminated in here death.
The deceased was the widow of the late Thomas Hill, Esq., and the
daughter of Matthias Roseberry, one of the early settlers of Greene
County, and who for many years resided in Center Township where he
died. Mrs. Hill was a woman of great energy and perseverance, and
the mother of eleven children, four sons and seven daughters, who all
grew up to man and womanhood, respected men and women, and all survive
her but one.
Her remains were brought to Waynesburg on Sunday afternoon, and taken
to the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Albert. A. Campbell, where they
still remain, the burial being postponed till the arrival of a daughter
from the West, who is expected will reach here this (Tuesday) evening,
and tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock, after the funeral services have
taken place in the Cumberland Presbyterian church, of which she was a
consistent member, her body will be interred in Greene Mount cemetery.
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