BIO:  Virgil H. B. LILLY, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Pages 392-393

VIRGIL H. B. LILLY, physician McSherrystown.  Samuel Lilly, the progenitor of 
this well-known family, emigrated from Bristol, England, in 1730, previous to 
which he had married Miss Ann Price, two ceremonies being performed the same day 
to celebrate the union, one by the Catholic and the other by the Established 
Church.  This grand old man settled in Adams County, Penn., where he bought and 
improved a farm (now owned by his grandson, Samuel Lilly Jenkins), called it 
Eden, and there died January 8, 1758, aged fifty-nine years.  His ashes rest 
under the Church of the Sacred Heart, at Conowago; his wife, Anna, also died in 
Eden, in June, 1784, aged eighty-five years.  They had seven children:  Esther 
and Richard born in England, Thomas on the sea, and John, Samuel, Mary and 
Joseph at Eden.  Of the above, John, born June 15, 1733, married Miss Verlinda 
Hardy, of Harford County, Md., who bore him six children:  Ann E., Samuel, 
Richard, Mildred, Bennett and Henry.  Of these Samuel, born March 23, 1768, near 
Cooptown, Harford Co., Md., died opposite Eden September 12, 1853.  He was 
married to Miss Hannah Cooper, of Lancaster County, Penn., who died in December, 
1835; they had three children that outlived them:  John, Sarah and Virlinda.  
The last mentioned married William S. Jenkins, a great-grandson of Richard 
Jenkins, and had seven children.  Sarah Lilly, born October 22, 1800, is still 
living in the white house near Conowago Church; John, born opposite Eden 
February 2, 1797, in Mountpleasant Township, this county, and died May 29, 1869, 
on the adjoining farm to which he was born.  John Lilly married Hannah C. Stump 
a native of Harford County, Md., daughter of William H. Stump.  Mrs. John Lilly 
died in McSherrystown, Penn., November 22, 1880, the mother of six children all 
now living:  Rachel, Mary V., Sarah, Samuel, William H. and Virgil H. B.  Our 
subject was educated in Conowago Chapel School and at Calvert College, Carroll 
County, Md., after which he studied medicine at the University of Maryland 
School of Medicine, Baltimore, having Profs. McSherry and Butler for his 
preceptors.  He graduated March 3, 1869, and settled in McSherrystown, this 
county, were he has since been located.  The Doctor was married here May 28, 
1872, to Miss Sarah C. Klunk, daughter of Joseph Klunk, and who was born here 
September 6, 1853.  They have four children now living:  Mary, John, Gertrude 
and Joseph K.  The Doctor and wife are members of the Conowago Chapel.  In 
politics he is a Democrat, and is now serving his second term as chief burgess 
of the borough.  He is a member of Adams County Medical Society, and was its 
president in 1883.