Prentiss Co., Mississippi -Lucy Floyd Hill
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MOTHER OF REILY SPRINGS WOMAN 99 YEARS OLD

February 1930

The following story is taken from the Prentiss Co., Mississippi News, 
reprinted in Sulphur Springs Gazette. Mrs Lucy Floyd Hill is the mother 
of Mrs. W. R. Smith of Reily Springs and the grandmother of O. S. Smith 
of Sulphur Springs.

We are presenting you today with a good likeness of Mrs. Lucy Floyd Hill, 
who is perhaps the oldest living person in Prentiss County. Mrs. Hill was 
born in Anson Co., North Carolina, April 29, 1831, making her now almost 
99 years of age. She was the only daughter of the family of nine children 
of Mr. & Mrs. John Floyd. Of the eight brothers, only one, James B. Floyd, 
of near Robertson school house, is now living. Mrs. Hill became the wife 
of James Jackson Hill in 1851 and moved to Prentiss county in 1860. They 
first resided in the Blythe’s Chapel community. After six years they moved 
to the Meadow Creek neighborhood, where she has lived for more than sixty 
years. When the family moved to Mississippi, they got off the train at 
Burnsville, on the Southern Railway. This railroad had just been completed. 
Her first meal in Mississippi was eaten in the home of Uncle Tommy Smith, 
who was well known to many of our older readers.

Mrs. Hill knew the hardships of the Civil War, having several small children 
at that time. She is now the oldest pensioner in the county. It is to the 
magnificent southern womanhood as displayed in those dark days that the South 
owes a great debt of gratitude.

Mrs. Hill was the mother of 12 children, of whom 11 lived to be grown, nine 
still living. The oldest is W. A. Hill, 78, who lives in Texas, and the 
youngest, Ben B. Hill, 56, with whom she makes her home. She has 37 grandchildren; 
45 great-grandchildren; and 3 great great grandchildren. She joined the Methodist 
church in North Carolina, and brought her membership certificate with her, and 
became a member of the Shady Grove Church. Mrs Hill’s memory is clear, but her 
eyesight and hearing are failing. Though otherwise she is active. We hope she 
will be spared for many more years.