Henry County GaArchives Obituaries.....Hilley, James R. August 17, 1938
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"The Cleburne News"
Heflin, Cleburne Co., Alabama

NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, SEPTEMBER 8, 1938

IN MEMORY OF JAMES R. HILLEY

James R. Hilley was born in Henry county, Ga. on July 10, 1850 and died Aug. 
17, 1938. He was the oldest man in the community as he was 88 years, one 
month and seven days old at the time of his death.

He was married to Mary Elizabeth Sticha on May 15, 1870 and to this union 
was born 10 children, five boys and five girls, all living but two. His 
companion preceded him to the grave 35 years, two months and six days.

He was converted at 14 years of age and joined the Southern Methodist church 
and was a member of that church until his passing away. He was always at his 
place in church. The church has lost a faithful member.

This place will be so vacant in our homes and it can never be filled. Dear 
Mother has gone on and we have missed her so much and now Father is gone. 
The old family tree is gone.

Sometimes we wonder why you must be called away and why our hearts must 
hurt, yet some day we will understand the reason why these things are so. 
When sorrow comes we must place our trust in God for He only can take the 
sting of grief away and by that power, he comforts and sustains us all. We 
must be submissive to God's will for He is too wise to make mistakes and too 
good not to be true.

God gifted him with a sense of humor and during the years when his strength 
was tasked he was ever patient and brave when others were tired, and somehow 
he managed to be always cheerful.

All his children were at his bedside when he passed away. The ones who were 
looking on the scene that evening would have known how his children loved 
him. It was so sad for us to give him up. We knew he had been with us a long 
time but oh, how we loved him. Dear Daddy, we miss you here, but we know 
where to find you over on the other shore with Jesus. I thought as we laid 
him in his last resting place what a great reunion it will be some day, 
where sad parting comes no more.

During his life he faced many dark days and many gray clouds but when those 
shadows came he saw in the gloom of his darkened hall the light of his faith 
still shining. "Henceforth there is laid up for him a crown of righteousness 
which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give him at that day, not only 
him, but unto all them also that love his appearing."

He was sick for six weeks and all through his sickness he said he was not 
worrying for he very often said he was ready when the Lord was ready for 
him. "He approached his death like one who wraps the drapery of his couch 
about him and lies down to pleasant dreams."

He was one of a large family and all are gone now except two brothers, Jesse 
of Whitesburg, Ga. and B.L. of Clarksdale, Ga. The funeral services were 
held at Old Hopewell church Aug. 19, the Revs. Skinner, Loftin, Moore and 
Kaylor conducting preaching services. The pallbearers were O.J. Kaylor, 
Howard Fordham, Wilson Hilley, Robert Hilley, Carl Norton and Hoyt Thrasher.

Survivors are Mrs. T.J. Kaylor, Mrs. Julia Fordham, Mrs. Ida Thrasher of 
Winston county; Mrs. Emma Norton of Bowdon, Ga., R.W., J.W., H.N., and J.L. 
Hilley, all of Cleburne county.

Written by his daughter, Mrs. T. J. Kaylor


Additional Comments:
Alabama Deaths, 1908-59 
Name: James R Hilley 
Death Date: Aug 1938 
Death County: Cleburne  
Volume: 40  
Certificate: 19725  
Roll: 3  

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