Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904, pp 749-750 [McCracken] H. C. HILLIARD, M. D. A recent addition to the medical profession of McCracken county, Kentucky, is found in the young man whose name introduces this sketch, Dr. H. C. Hilliard, of Cecil. He is a native of Kentucky, born in Hickman county in the year 1875, son of David and Lizzie (Hays) Hilliard, the former a native of Green county, Kentucky, and the latter of Hickman county. Both parents died in the prime of life, the father in 1889, at the age of thirty-five years; the mother in 1887, at the age of thirty-two years. He was a farmer and a veterinary surgeon, politically a Democrat and religiously a Methodist, and a respected citizen. The Doctor's paternal grandfather was David Hilliard, a native of Green county, Kentucky; and his maternal grandfather was Hercules Hays, a native of Washington county, Kentucky. Dr. Hilliard has one brother and two sisters, namely: Coleman Hilliard, a well known farmer of McCracken county; Emma J., wife of Walter Norman; and Bertha F., Wife of James Allison, both prosperous farmers of Hickman county, Kentucky. H. C. Hilliard was educated in the State College at Lexington, Kentucky, the State Normal College of Ada, Ohio, and the medical college at Cincinnati. Previous to his entering medical college he was for a time engaged in the drug business. He completed his medical course and graduated in 1900, and immediately after entered upon the practice of his profession in his native county, where he remained until 1903, that year removing to McCracken county, and locating in Cecil, where he has bright prospects for the future. Dr. Hilliard was married in 1900 to Miss Mentie Price, daughter of Samuel and Lizzie (Scott) Price, natives of middle Tennessee, and for some years residents of Hickman county, Tennessee, where her father died in 1892, at the age of sixty-two years, and where her mother is still living. Mrs. Hilliard's brothers and sisters are John, William, Grundy, Dalton and Couch Price; and Mollie, wife of Weley Rabey, a farmer of Graves county, Kentucky; Fannie, wife of John Sanders, a farmer of Hickman county; and Dollie, wife of Richard Hays, a farmer of McCracken county. Hilliard Hays Norman Allison Price Scott Rabey Sanders = Hickman-KY Green-KY Washington-KY Hickman-TN Graves-KY http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/mccracken/hilliard.hc.txt