Hopkins Co TX -Lucy Floyd Hill



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From the historical files of June E. Tuck, who does not validate or dispute

any historical facts in the article.



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.