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CULLED BY DEATHi -| MRS. MARIETTA HILL DIED THISMORNING!.Resided in County 5(1 Years and in Waterloo a Quarter Century.Mrs. Marietta Hill, a resident of Black Hawk county for over fifty-six j years, and of Waterloo for twenty-five years, passed away this morning at 6 j o’clock at the home of her son, E. E.1 MRS MARIETTA HILL.• i. . • _ — - - i| Hill. 221 Mullan avenue east, with ; whom she had made her home for a j number of years.] The aged lady had been confined to | ; her home since last November when, she underwent a slight operation, bin the immediate cause of her death was ! uremic poisoning and convulsions,! with which she was taken sick on Sun- ‘ j day night. Her condition had been i j critical since that time and all the I inear relatives were summoned to her; : bedside and were present when death; ; came. SNative of New York. jMarietta Williams was born in Bow- !, mansviUe, Erie county, N. V.. July 29. ]ilk'll, and spent her girlhood years in:: Buffalo. She caroe with her parents to ;Black Hawk countv in is55. Thc-v i♦ ■: lived for a time in Waterloo and then i bought a farm three miles smith of.; Waterloo in West Waterloo township,;! which was tier home until Jan. 2. ISa*.:; when she was married to Elam Hill, ,; who owned the adjoining farm. In. 1SS3, they moved into Waterloo and I : lived for many years at 627 Eighth ! j street west. Mr. Hilt died June 16,11896, and four years after his death,' : Mrs. Hill moved to the home in which ! she died. jWas Active Methodist. ;During the years of her residence in ■Waterloo west, she attended the First ; M. E. church and was active in the church work, but since living in her present home, she attended services at Grace M E. church as Jong as her : health permitted. ‘•Grandma” Hill, as :
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Waterloo Evening Courier
Waterloo, Iowa, US
Wed, Feb 21, 1912
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