Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Hill, George L., 1963 

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GEORGE LEWIS HILL 

   NEWSOMS - Funeral services for George Lewis Hill, 54, who was killed 
Wednesday in a collision of his pickup truck with a Seaboard Air Line 
freight train, were conducted Friday at 2 p.m. in Barnes Methodist Church 
by Rev. B.W. Coe.  Burial was in Newsoms Cemetery.

   Active pallbearers were W.B. Ivey, Stanley Myrick, John D. Thorpe, 
Marshall Vick, Ralph Barrett, Hugh Barrett, Jr., Martin Carr and Thomas 
Butler.

   A lifelong resident of Newsoms, he was a son of Samuel and Eva Britt* 
Hill, the husband of Mrs. Nellie Gray Hill, and a member of Barnes 
Methodist Church.

   Surviving besides his widow are two sons, Valen Hill of Hampton and 
George Hill, Jr. of Emporia; a daughter, Mrs. R.E. Vick of Hampton; three 
brothers, Eppa Hill of Baltimore, J.B. Hill of Portsmouth and Thomas Hill 
of Roanoke; three sisters, Mrs. Charles Vaughan of West Norfolk, Chesapeake, 
and Mrs. Edward Story and Mrs. Jesse Story of Newsoms; and four grandchildren.


George Lewis HILL, lifelong resident of Newsoms, 
truck struck by train, 27 Feb 1963, Newsoms, age 54, 
interred in Hollywood Cemetery**, Newsoms, 1 Mar 1963, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 4, 1963, Sect. I, p. 7 

**Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Hollywood list (N-39): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/hollywd.txt 

George's widow 2m. widower Charlie H. MACK, Jr., also buried there (N-44). 

*George's parents are buried in Barnes Methodist Church Cemetery.  His 
   mother's maiden name was BRETT; widowed, she 2m. widower Joe C. WHITLEY. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 4 (IV-53): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol4.txt 


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