HAYWOOD COUNTY, TN - Obituaries - Rev. Richard Hill
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Both of the following obituaries were copied from newspaper clippings


DEATH OF REV. RICHARD HILL Rev. D. L. Hines* writes that the veteran local
preacher, Rev. Richard Hill, some time itinerant also, after protracted and
painful illness died at his residence in Haywood County, Sunday, February 18 , in
his seventy-eighth year, and Monday afternoon in the presence of a large
congregation, with the burial service by Rev. D. L. Hines, his remains were laid
to rest in old Mt. Pleasant  graveyard by the side of his wife's body, who died
last year.  He was long a great factor in the Church and in civil life, also in
politics.  Decided in his convictions and courageous in their maintenance,
generous and liberal, good and faithful, loving God and the Church, also men, yet
against such as opposed truth and righteousness, Dick Hill, as we all called him,
was a power in his community.  An aged sister  and two sons  survive him, also a
host of friends and younger relatives, together with the older preachers, to
cherish his memory, following him as he followed Christ.




REV. RICHARD HILL Rev. Richard Hill was born March 2, 1822; was married to Miss
Lucinda C. Hill January 14, 1842; and departed this life February 18, 1900.  The
subject of this sketch was a grandson of Mr. Green Hill, in whose house the first
Methodist Conference in North Carolina was held April 20, 1785 near Louisburg.
The Rev. Green Hill removed to Tennessee in 1799 and settled fourteen miles south
of Nashville.  His house became a Methodist center and there Bishop McKendree held
his first Conference in 1808.  Brother Hill who was of such noble ancestry, was a
strong, useful man and was soundly converted in early manhood and began his long
and useful career by working in prayer meetings.  He was elected to the office of
magistrate by the people of District No 1, Haywood County, where he spent the most
of his life, in which capacity he served thirty-six years without having a
decision reversed.  He often received the suffrages of those of the opposing
party.  He was elected to this office without asking for it, because he protected
the interest of the county.  He also represented his county in the Legislature.
Brother Hill was a man of strong convictions.  When he thoroughly investigated a
subject and made up his mind he would not swerve from his opinion.  At the time of
the Civil War he was a Union man in sentiment, but his sympathy was with the
Southern people, and he did not refuse to do acts of kindness to his neighbors
when the trading points were held by Union forces.  Often have I heard the
expression from strong men that differed with him "We always know where to find
Dick Hill."
The more important part of his public service was that of "ambassador for Christ."
Although he had the church service for the Master, working the prayer meetings and
revivals, he was not licensed to preach until he was forty years old.  He served
as local preacher for many years but finally joined the Memphis Conference and
traveled for six years and then located on account of ill health from which he
afterwards recovered, but the remainder of his life was spent in the local ranks. 
As a preacher he was strong, earnest, and forceful.  The power of God often
attended his preaching in the conversion of many souls.  He has much fruit of his
ministry, some of which preceded him to the happy land and some are still here
tolling in the Master's vineyard.  He assisted this writer in three meetings last
year, and would preach, although with much feebleness of voice, and sinners were
convicted and converted and received into the Church.  I heard him preach his last
sermon, and a happy meeting we had that night.  He was the father of five
children, three of whom went to heaven when small.  His companion in life preceded
him to glory just fourteen months.  He has two sons , who with their families and
a large circle of relatives and friends mourn their loss.  But "we sorrow not as
those who have no home" for we are content that Rev. Richard Hill is in Heaven
where we can all meet him and his partings will never come again.
J. W. E. PETERS*
*He was a minister at Mt. Pleasant after Richard Hill

Notes from Lynda Hill Clarke