Smith Co. TX - Obit for Sidney Ward Hill
   
Submitted by: Wanda Purcell   wpurc25758@aol.com

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Sidney  Ward  Hill  was  born January 27, 1873 in Smith county, Texas.
Departed this life at Hobart, Oklahoma November 25, 1958.

In 1895 he was united in marriage to Sarah Shultz at Norman, Oklahoma.
She preceded him in death in 1938.

Mr.  Hill  was an early settler, having helped to lay out the Elk City
townsite.  Later  he moved to Strong City and homesteaded a farm where
he  resided  for  some  22 years. Moving to Strong city in 1927 he was
elected  mayor,  serving  for  six  years. He also served in the state
legislature  for  one term. He maintained a produce business from 1927
until  1940. For the past four years he had been a resident of Hobart,
Oklahoma where he lived at a convalescent home.

Survivors  include four children, Clarence Hill, Dallas, Texas, Felton
Hill, also of Dallas, Mrs. Lillie Harrison, Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Mrs
Lela  Harrison,  Boulder,  Colorado;  14  grandchildren  and  16 great
grandchildren, other relatives and many friends.

Besides  his wife he was preceded in death by two children, Mrs. Ethel
Hyman and Alberta Hill.

Burial Silent Home cemetery, Roll, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma.

Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, Ok