Fulton-Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Hill, Laura Nance February 2, 1900
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The Constitution:  Atlanta, GA—Saturday, February 3, 1900.
The Constitution:  Atlanta, GA—Saturday, February 3, 1900.

Mrs. Rhode Hill Died yesterday

She Passed Peacefully Away at Her Daughter’s Home

A Widely Beloved Woman

Her Death Was Learned with Great Sorrow in Atlanta

Life Was Devoted to Works of charity

Was a Prominent Catholic and One of the Most conspicuous Member of Sacred Heart 
Church

At 7 o’clock yesterday morning, surrounded by the members of her immediate 
family, Mrs. Rhode Hill, one of Atlanta’s most prominent and widely beloved 
women died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. J. Carroll Payne, 215 
Peachtree.

Mrs. Hill’s death was not unexpected.  For the past few months her condition 
has been such as to cause the alarm of her relatives; and in spite of the 
utmost efforts of her physicians, she grew steadily worse.  Several days ago 
The Constitution made mention of her serious illness.  At that time small hopes 
were entertained for her recovery.

Death came quietly yesterday morning, and Mrs. Hill passed away as peacefully 
as she had lived.

Mrs. Hill’s death was directly due to a stroke of paralysis she received last 
week.  Last Tuesday she experienced a second stroke.  Since that time she never 
regained complete consciousness and the end approached rapidly.

The death of Mrs. Hill will be learned with the most universal and sincere 
sorrow in Atlanta as well as throughout the south.  She had hundreds of friends 
all over the state, and many who did not know her personally were acquainted 
with her widespread charities.  She was a devoted member of the Catholic church 
and a great part of her time was expended in religious and charitable work.  It 
was she who took the initiative to a great extent in the movement to build the 
Sacred Heart church, one of the most beautiful church buildings in the south.  
Since its completion she was one of its most enthusiastic workers, and in her 
death this congregation will sustain a great loss.

Prior to her marriage to the late W. R. Hill, she was Miss Laura Nance, of 
Columbus, one of the most prominent young women of that city.  Shortly after 
her marriage Mrs. Hill removed to Atlanta, and since that time she had been 
closely identified with all forms of church and charitable work.

In 1895 her husband died.  His death was a very great blow to her, and she 
never fully recovered from it, although she gave little outward indication of 
ill health.

At the time of her death, Mrs. Hill was fifty-five years of age.  She is 
survived by her daughter, Mrs. J. Carroll Payne, and four sisters—Mrs. C. A. 
Lovelace of Columbus; Mrs. D. S. Gregory, Mrs. R. Z. Rosser, and Miss Clara 
Nance, all of this city, and all of whom were at her bedside when death came.

The funeral services will be conducted from the Church of the Sacred Heart at 3 
o’clock this afternoon.  Father J. E. Gunn will conduct the services.  The 
following gentlemen will act as pallbearers:  John Little, Victor Smith, John 
J. Morris, C. E. Caverly, Thomas Erwin, J. M. Alexander, Charles Crankshaw and 
Louis Gholstein.

Mrs. Hill’s widespread popularity was attested yesterday afternoon by the 
unusually large number of magnificent floral offerings which were sent tot he 
house by her friends.  The funeral today will doubtless be one of the largest 
ever held at the Sacred Heart church.


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