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- Castello Welcome, youngest son of Varnum
and Lavina CHEESBOROUGH
- HILL,
was born in Albion, Wis., May 16, 1852, and passed away at Ingleside,
Neb., August 5, 1933.
- While he was a boy his parents moved
to a place near Dakota, Waushara County,
- Wis. They became a part of the Seventh
Day Baptist group there.
- About 1874 Mr. HILL came to
Nebraska and soon homesteaded. On January 1,
- 1876, he was united in marriage with
Eva DAVIS by Elder Oscar BABCOCK. To this union
were born three sons: Claude, Otto, and Jud. Mr. and Mrs. HILL
experienced the rigors and privations of pioneer life. They
shared willingly and joyously these hardships as they built their
home in a new land.
- Brother HILL was highly respected
by his neighbors and friends. Honesty was one
- of his cardinal virtues. He was good-natured
and kind. Early in life he became a Christian, was baptized
and joined the church. At the time of his passing he was a
member of the North Loup Seventh Day Baptist Church.
- Mr. HILL is the last of his
immediate family of three brothers and one sister. There
- survive, besides his widow and his
three sons, a half brother living in Burnam, Wis., eight grandchildren,
and seven great-grandchildren.
- Farewell services were conducted by
Pastor Hurley S. Warren from the A. H.
- Babcock home. Interment was in the
North Loup Cemetery. H. S. W. [Vol. 115, No. 11, p.
262]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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