MACON CO., NC - OBITUARIES - Stanhope W. Hill, 11 Dec 1894

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Franklin Press, Jan. 9, 1895 issue

Highlands
Stanhope W. Hill, aged 79 years, died at Horse Cove on December 11, 
1894. Mr. Hill was born in Rutherford Co., and came to Macon forty 
six years ago. He was a magistrate in this county for about thirty 
years, and had been a Master Mason for forty-two years. He was 
happily married twice; first to Celia Edwards of Polk Co., second, 
to Mary Sudduth of Greenville Co., S.C. He leaves six children, all 
by his first wife. Mr. Hill was in the Indian war at the time Gen. 
Scott was in command, for which he received a pension the latter 
years of his life. He was buried at Horse Cove, with Masonic 
honors, conducted by Blue Ridge Lodge of Highlands, Thomas J. 
Vinson acting Master. He was useful as a magistrate being so far 
from the county seat, he was compelled to act much of the time as 
his judgement dictated. A great many cases came before him, before 
any settlement at Highlands. He in all cases acted with prudence; 
and often arbritrated between persons in such a way as to bring 
peace and good feeling, when a little harshness according to law, 
would have produced ill feeling, and kept up long continued feuds, 
which in a thinly settled section, is so disastrous to good order. 
He was a man well known, and had a large circle of acquaintances; 
and largely among people of note, resulting from his custom of 
entertaining people from different sections of the South during the 
summer. He was quite interested in getting settlers into this 
section, and did all he could to encourage and settle Messrs. 
Kelsey & Hutchinson. In the last few years his mental and physical 
powers considerably weakened. In his palmy days, he was a prudent 
manager, intelligent, and of sound judgement; a man of kindly 
feeling, and had a courteous and affable manner, and popular with 
the visitors who each succeeding summer, made his house their home.

With his kindly nature, when once the sentiment of friendship took 
possession of his heart, he would do all in his power to advance 
the interests of a friend. By his demise, Macon county loses one of 
its oldest citizens, and one identified with much of its early 
history. So the fathers pass away.