Obit
Funeral arrangements are incomplete for Charles C. Hill 84 of Gratiot.
Mr. Hill died this morning in Bethesda Hospital, Zanesville where he had been a patient for two weeks. He had been failing health for 10 years.
He was born June 11, 1884 in Hopewell Twp. to William and Clara Woodruff Hill.
He spent most of his life in Hopewell Twp.. Serving as clerk of Hopewell School board for 14 years. He operated a grocery and was postmaster in Mt Sterling for 20 years, later farming north of Mt Sterling. He was a member of Gratiot United Methodist Church, Brownsville Lodge No. 85 F and A.M. and Zanesville Eagle Lodge No 302.
Surviving are his wife, Ada O. Leasure Hill of the home, tow sons: Raymond M of Zanesville, Richard of Granville; two brothers Edger W of Rt 1 Dresden, David B. Of Rt 3, Zanesville, nine grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.
Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 pm Wednesday and Thursday in the William Thompson and son Funeral Home, White Cottage.
Additional Bio: Charles was not only community minded but also loved the time spent with his sons and grandchildren. His farm's driveway was located at 39°59'32.7"N 82°08'16.4"W which led up to their beautiful Virginia style brick farmhouse shown in the photo section of this memorial. In this house Ada still cooked on a large wood stove and drew water from her sink hand pump. There was also a large table in the center of the room and on a side wall a beautiful walnut cabinet that held her family's Irish Tea China, all in her wood structure kitchen located on the back of their home. The brick front rooms and upper bedrooms were decorated with beautiful family heirlooms of tables, chairs, clocks, desks, and bedroom furniture . Their farm was the site of many family reunions, with the celebration taking place outdoors under a shelter house located on the edge of the woods and raven in the middle of their 640 acer farm. There was an old summer lodge built nearby. These reunions would gather 70+ family members with tales being spun of the early days of their parents and ancestor's. Delicious bountiful food with ham that came directly out of their smokehouse just behind their home. I will always remember the sausage that my aunt Jennie Hill, wife of Edgar, brought in a large crock that required a brave little boy to take out of the crock. The reward was memorable as they were delicious homemade sausages. Cakes and pies were gloriously displayed !! In his farming, Charles owned a tractor that was an early medal wheel variety, yet his preference in plowing was his two Belgium draft horses. This, so that he could keep an eye on the newly turned soil for Indian arrowheads as he walked the furrows. He had a marvelous collection of arrowheads as the attached photo shows. His farm was about 4 miles as the crow flies from Flintridge State Park. He was convinced that the ravine was a natural spot for an Indian settlement were they knapped their flint into tools. He had huge bags of chards of flint to give evidence of his theory. The barnyard had a springhouse for the milk to stay cool, with geese, chickens, guineas, rabbit hutch and their black and white border collie watching over this magnificent barnyard site. After the Dillion Dam reservoir took his farm as part of the floodwater area, he moved into Gratiot in 1956, to live out his retirement days. He and Ada would set outside on their front porch and speak to everyone who came to the grocery store that stood next door. They lived on the NW corner of Main St and Center St that becomes Gratiot Rd to the north. Here Charles made his cabinets in his wood shop to hold his huge collection of flint artifacts, while Ada weaved rugs on the large loom located on their enclosed back porch. Life was good to them and they made the best of it for others. Bob Hill - grandson
Funeral arrangements are incomplete for Charles C. Hill 84 of Gratiot.
Mr. Hill died this morning in Bethesda Hospital, Zanesville where he had been a patient for two weeks. He had been failing health for 10 years.
He was born June 11, 1884 in Hopewell Twp. to William and Clara Woodruff Hill.
He spent most of his life in Hopewell Twp.. Serving as clerk of Hopewell School board for 14 years. He operated a grocery and was postmaster in Mt Sterling for 20 years, later farming north of Mt Sterling. He was a member of Gratiot United Methodist Church, Brownsville Lodge No. 85 F and A.M. and Zanesville Eagle Lodge No 302.
Surviving are his wife, Ada O. Leasure Hill of the home, tow sons: Raymond M of Zanesville, Richard of Granville; two brothers Edger W of Rt 1 Dresden, David B. Of Rt 3, Zanesville, nine grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.
Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 pm Wednesday and Thursday in the William Thompson and son Funeral Home, White Cottage.
Additional Bio: Charles was not only community minded but also loved the time spent with his sons and grandchildren. His farm's driveway was located at 39°59'32.7"N 82°08'16.4"W which led up to their beautiful Virginia style brick farmhouse shown in the photo section of this memorial. In this house Ada still cooked on a large wood stove and drew water from her sink hand pump. There was also a large table in the center of the room and on a side wall a beautiful walnut cabinet that held her family's Irish Tea China, all in her wood structure kitchen located on the back of their home. The brick front rooms and upper bedrooms were decorated with beautiful family heirlooms of tables, chairs, clocks, desks, and bedroom furniture . Their farm was the site of many family reunions, with the celebration taking place outdoors under a shelter house located on the edge of the woods and raven in the middle of their 640 acer farm. There was an old summer lodge built nearby. These reunions would gather 70+ family members with tales being spun of the early days of their parents and ancestor's. Delicious bountiful food with ham that came directly out of their smokehouse just behind their home. I will always remember the sausage that my aunt Jennie Hill, wife of Edgar, brought in a large crock that required a brave little boy to take out of the crock. The reward was memorable as they were delicious homemade sausages. Cakes and pies were gloriously displayed !! In his farming, Charles owned a tractor that was an early medal wheel variety, yet his preference in plowing was his two Belgium draft horses. This, so that he could keep an eye on the newly turned soil for Indian arrowheads as he walked the furrows. He had a marvelous collection of arrowheads as the attached photo shows. His farm was about 4 miles as the crow flies from Flintridge State Park. He was convinced that the ravine was a natural spot for an Indian settlement were they knapped their flint into tools. He had huge bags of chards of flint to give evidence of his theory. The barnyard had a springhouse for the milk to stay cool, with geese, chickens, guineas, rabbit hutch and their black and white border collie watching over this magnificent barnyard site. After the Dillion Dam reservoir took his farm as part of the floodwater area, he moved into Gratiot in 1956, to live out his retirement days. He and Ada would set outside on their front porch and speak to everyone who came to the grocery store that stood next door. They lived on the NW corner of Main St and Center St that becomes Gratiot Rd to the north. Here Charles made his cabinets in his wood shop to hold his huge collection of flint artifacts, while Ada weaved rugs on the large loom located on their enclosed back porch. Life was good to them and they made the best of it for others. Bob Hill - grandson
Obit
Funeral arrangements are incomplete for Charles C. Hill 84 of Gratiot.
Mr. Hill died this morning in Bethesda Hospital, Zanesville where he had been a patient for two weeks. He had been failing health for 10 years.
He was born June 11, 1884 in Hopewell Twp. to William and Clara Woodruff Hill.
He spent most of his life in Hopewell Twp.. Serving as clerk of Hopewell School board for 14 years. He operated a grocery and was postmaster in Mt Sterling for 20 years, later farming north of Mt Sterling. He was a member of Gratiot United Methodist Church, Brownsville Lodge No. 85 F and A.M. and Zanesville Eagle Lodge No 302.
Surviving are his wife, Ada O. Leasure Hill of the home, tow sons: Raymond M of Zanesville, Richard of Granville; two brothers Edger W of Rt 1 Dresden, David B. Of Rt 3, Zanesville, nine grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.
Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 pm Wednesday and Thursday in the William Thompson and son Funeral Home, White Cottage.
Additional Bio: Charles was not only community minded but also loved the time spent with his sons and grandchildren. His farm's driveway was located at 39°59'32.7"N 82°08'16.4"W which led up to their beautiful Virginia style brick farmhouse shown in the photo section of this memorial. In this house Ada still cooked on a large wood stove and drew water from her sink hand pump. There was also a large table in the center of the room and on a side wall a beautiful walnut cabinet that held her family's Irish Tea China, all in her wood structure kitchen located on the back of their home. The brick front rooms and upper bedrooms were decorated with beautiful family heirlooms of tables, chairs, clocks, desks, and bedroom furniture . Their farm was the site of many family reunions, with the celebration taking place outdoors under a shelter house located on the edge of the woods and raven in the middle of their 640 acer farm. There was an old summer lodge built nearby. These reunions would gather 70+ family members with tales being spun of the early days of their parents and ancestor's. Delicious bountiful food with ham that came directly out of their smokehouse just behind their home. I will always remember the sausage that my aunt Jennie Hill, wife of Edgar, brought in a large crock that required a brave little boy to take out of the crock. The reward was memorable as they were delicious homemade sausages. Cakes and pies were gloriously displayed !! In his farming, Charles owned a tractor that was an early medal wheel variety, yet his preference in plowing was his two Belgium draft horses. This, so that he could keep an eye on the newly turned soil for Indian arrowheads as he walked the furrows. He had a marvelous collection of arrowheads as the attached photo shows. His farm was about 4 miles as the crow flies from Flintridge State Park. He was convinced that the ravine was a natural spot for an Indian settlement were they knapped their flint into tools. He had huge bags of chards of flint to give evidence of his theory. The barnyard had a springhouse for the milk to stay cool, with geese, chickens, guineas, rabbit hutch and their black and white border collie watching over this magnificent barnyard site. After the Dillion Dam reservoir took his farm as part of the floodwater area, he moved into Gratiot in 1956, to live out his retirement days. He and Ada would set outside on their front porch and speak to everyone who came to the grocery store that stood next door. They lived on the NW corner of Main St and Center St that becomes Gratiot Rd to the north. Here Charles made his cabinets in his wood shop to hold his huge collection of flint artifacts, while Ada weaved rugs on the large loom located on their enclosed back porch. Life was good to them and they made the best of it for others. Bob Hill - grandson
Funeral arrangements are incomplete for Charles C. Hill 84 of Gratiot.
Mr. Hill died this morning in Bethesda Hospital, Zanesville where he had been a patient for two weeks. He had been failing health for 10 years.
He was born June 11, 1884 in Hopewell Twp. to William and Clara Woodruff Hill.
He spent most of his life in Hopewell Twp.. Serving as clerk of Hopewell School board for 14 years. He operated a grocery and was postmaster in Mt Sterling for 20 years, later farming north of Mt Sterling. He was a member of Gratiot United Methodist Church, Brownsville Lodge No. 85 F and A.M. and Zanesville Eagle Lodge No 302.
Surviving are his wife, Ada O. Leasure Hill of the home, tow sons: Raymond M of Zanesville, Richard of Granville; two brothers Edger W of Rt 1 Dresden, David B. Of Rt 3, Zanesville, nine grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.
Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 pm Wednesday and Thursday in the William Thompson and son Funeral Home, White Cottage.
Additional Bio: Charles was not only community minded but also loved the time spent with his sons and grandchildren. His farm's driveway was located at 39°59'32.7"N 82°08'16.4"W which led up to their beautiful Virginia style brick farmhouse shown in the photo section of this memorial. In this house Ada still cooked on a large wood stove and drew water from her sink hand pump. There was also a large table in the center of the room and on a side wall a beautiful walnut cabinet that held her family's Irish Tea China, all in her wood structure kitchen located on the back of their home. The brick front rooms and upper bedrooms were decorated with beautiful family heirlooms of tables, chairs, clocks, desks, and bedroom furniture . Their farm was the site of many family reunions, with the celebration taking place outdoors under a shelter house located on the edge of the woods and raven in the middle of their 640 acer farm. There was an old summer lodge built nearby. These reunions would gather 70+ family members with tales being spun of the early days of their parents and ancestor's. Delicious bountiful food with ham that came directly out of their smokehouse just behind their home. I will always remember the sausage that my aunt Jennie Hill, wife of Edgar, brought in a large crock that required a brave little boy to take out of the crock. The reward was memorable as they were delicious homemade sausages. Cakes and pies were gloriously displayed !! In his farming, Charles owned a tractor that was an early medal wheel variety, yet his preference in plowing was his two Belgium draft horses. This, so that he could keep an eye on the newly turned soil for Indian arrowheads as he walked the furrows. He had a marvelous collection of arrowheads as the attached photo shows. His farm was about 4 miles as the crow flies from Flintridge State Park. He was convinced that the ravine was a natural spot for an Indian settlement were they knapped their flint into tools. He had huge bags of chards of flint to give evidence of his theory. The barnyard had a springhouse for the milk to stay cool, with geese, chickens, guineas, rabbit hutch and their black and white border collie watching over this magnificent barnyard site. After the Dillion Dam reservoir took his farm as part of the floodwater area, he moved into Gratiot in 1956, to live out his retirement days. He and Ada would set outside on their front porch and speak to everyone who came to the grocery store that stood next door. They lived on the NW corner of Main St and Center St that becomes Gratiot Rd to the north. Here Charles made his cabinets in his wood shop to hold his huge collection of flint artifacts, while Ada weaved rugs on the large loom located on their enclosed back porch. Life was good to them and they made the best of it for others. Bob Hill - grandson
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