Bibb-Telfair-Talbot County GaArchives Obituaries.....Pope  Hill April 5 1909
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The Talbotton New Era, April 8, 1909

The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, April 8, 1909
Page 6

Pope S. Hill

Pope Hill, a prominent Macon lawyer who had been in McRae investigating the 
celebrated Dodge land case was found dead at 2 o’clock Monday morning in the 
office of the Dodge Lumber Company.

Hon. Pope S. Hill was the son of John and Jennie Lester Hill, and a grandson of 
Judge Barnard Hill who lived in Talbotton and a nephew of the late Chancellor 
Walter B. Hill, of Athens.  He visited relatives in Talbotton several years 
ago, and made friends who deeply regret his mysterious and untimely death.  He 
was born at Warrenton, Ga., 46 years ago and is survived by a wife and child.  
For thirteen years he had been connected with the law firm of Nat E. and W.A. 
Harris of Macon.

Mr. Hill had gone to McRae as representative of his firm to look into certain 
phases of the Dodge land case – a case of many years standing, which involves 
the titles to thousands of acres of land in Dodge and Telfair, and a case which 
had been marked by assassinations and armed resistance to law.  Mr. Hill was 
working in the interest of the estate of Norman W. Dodge, of New York.

The murder theory is strengthened by the fact his friends say, that recently he 
spoke of receiving several threatening letters and this recalls the bloody 
history of the land litigation in Telfair and Dodge counties.

The efforts of Mr. Dodge to oust claimants to his land caused the death of 
several persons some years ago, and when a United States officer was murdered 
the case got into the Federal courts before Judge Emory Speer and became a 
famous one in the court annals of Georgia.


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