DEATH OF REV. JACOB ALBERT HILL

Elder Jacob Albert Hill died at his home in Union county, N. C., Feb. 16th, 1892, in the seventy-fourth year of his age. He was twice married. He left seven children by his first wife (nee Chapman), four sons and three daughters, and twenty-seven grand children, all of whom live in Texas . His second wife, who was the widow of the late J. D. Saunders, survives him.

Bro. Hill was born near Newberry, S. C., Feb. 22d, 1819. His parents were Dutch, and he was brought up under Lutheran influence, but became a subject of saving grace early in life, and joined the Enoree Baptist church where his ordination took place on the fifth Sunday in April, 1849. He was pastor of Harmony and Catawba churches in York county, S. C., nine years, and in 1858 moved to Walker county, Ala. He spent thirty years in Alabama, Mississippi and Texas, returned to South Carolina in 1887, and the next year settled in North Carolina and became the pastor of churches on both sides of the State line.

Although advanced in years, Bro. Hill looked young and fresh. He enjoyed perfect health and his physical strength and powers of endurance were very great, until he was thrown from a buggy last July. The injury then received proved to be the beginning of the end. A week later he took lagrippe. On the third Sunday in December he was attacked by pneumonia, and on the 17th of February at 8:30 p.m., the strong men yielded to the pressure and sank to his last sleep. The spirit took its place among the redeemed, and the body was tenderly laid to rest in the grave-yard at Waxhaw church, where on the third Sunday in November he preached to us from Rom. 14:17, his last s ermon.

One mighty in the Scriptures a nd a fearless defender of the faith has fallen, albeit a plain-spoken, matter of fact man, honest to the core, with little policy about him.

He brought to our times the chivalr ous spirit and noble frankness of a former generation.

He is gone and many are sad, for we shall see his face no more.

Written at the request of Hermon church, o f which he was a member and the first pastor .

J. J. McCLENDON BIBLICAL RECORDER, April 13, 1892 , p. 7:1-2 (205/B47)

J. A. HILL

Your Committee on Obituaries beg to submit the following: We find from the reports in the letters that there has been nineteen deaths during the past Associational year, and among that number was the REV. J. A. HILL, who was born in Newberry county, S. C., February 22, 1819, and died February 16, 1892; age 72 years, 11 months and 24 days. He had been in the ministry of the Baptist denomination for about forty-five years. He moved from his native State to the State of Alabama, in about the year 1859 or '60. There he served in the Legislature dur-ing the late war. In the year 1879 or '80 he moved to Texas, where he lived for eight years; in 1888 he came to North Carolina and united with the Waxhaw church; in 1890 he joined the Hermon Baptist church, of which he remained a member up to his death. He was a man of great intellectual power. He had several pastorates in South Carolina, some in Alabama and Texas. He served the Waxhaw and Hermon churches in this Association. He was a man of indomitable will power; he had opinions of his own, and dared to defend them. His style was more on the military order than that of most men. He was a good, practical preacher, and faithful pastor, exemplary in his life and just in his dealings with his fellow men. We commend his widow and children to the care of that God whom he served, and in the faith of whom he died.

A. C. DAVIS, Chairman of Committee

UNION BAPTIST ASSOCIATION MINUTES, 1892, p. 15

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.... Rev. J. A. Hill of Waxhaw neighborhood, departed this life on the 17th inst., after an illness of several weeks with pneumonia. Mr. Hill lived at Ames last year, but moved to his old home near Waxhaw about the first of this year. He was a minister of the Missionary .Baptist church, and was in all respects an excellent man. His life had been one of great usefulness, and his loss will be felt. He was over seventy years of age.---Monroe Inquirer, Feb. 25. Bro. Hill was one of our most devoted and consistent ministers, spending his life in service for the Master. A sketch of his life will appear later.

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