DEATH SUMMONS MRS. R. S. HILL

Member of Prominent Family Dies After Lengthly Illness

Mrs. Robert Sherrard Hill Died Saturday, December 6, at 11:15 p.m. at her home, 547 South Fourth Street, after a lengthly illness. Mrs. Hill, who was Mary Meade, was born January 20, 1864, in Steubenville, and was the daughter of Thomas and Henrietta Menager Mears who formerly lived at 720 South Street.

She was educated at the Steubenville seminary under Dr. A. M. Reid and his wife. On June 30, 1885 she was married to Robert S. Hill of Oak Grove farm, where they made their home for nine years, and since that time have occupied their present residence on South Fourth Street.

To them were born five daughters, all of whom survive, Henrietta, wife of W. L. Hogarth of Timmons, Ontario; Mary, wife of Robert Henderson Watson of Detroit; Nancy, wife of Clay D. Housel of Akron; Laura, wife of Charles T. Buehler of Peoria, Ill.; and Anna Virginia, wife of Philip M. Fox of this city.

Mrs. Hill was formerly a member of the First Presbyterian Church and later of Westminster Presbyterian Church. She was formerly an associate member of the Women's Club and a charter member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Mrs. Hill's great-grandfather and mother were members of a band of French people who settled at Gallipolis, Ohio. She was a descendant of John Wrenshall, who was the first Methodist minister ordained in the state of Ohio, and was known as the founder of Methodism in Pittsburgh.

Beside her husband and daughters she is survived by the following relatives: three sisters-in-law, Mrs. Ella Mears, Miss Elizabeth J. Hill and Mrs. Martha Hill Kerr, two nephews and a niece, children of the late William S. Mears; two nieces and three nephews, children of the late Dr. David and Martha Hill Kerr; a cousin, Miss Agnes L. Wells; and nine grand-children.

Mrs. hill was a woman of fine character and was noted for her hospitality. The Mears family of which she was a member was prominent and influential in this city, an uncle, Robert Mears, being the donor of the money which has gone to the poor for years from the "Mears fund."
*****The Steubenville Herald Star, Monday, December 8, 1930*****