Biography of
Lucy Early Beard Hill
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| Obituary - Mrs. Lucy Beard Hill, aged 74 years, died in Covington on Friday Night, November 18, 1938. On Sunday afternoon the funeral was held in Covington, by her pastor, Rev. H. S. Coffey of the Granberry Methodist Church, Interment in the Oak Grove Cemetery at Hillsboro. Mrs. Hill was a daughter of Charles W. and Elizabeth Perkins Beard. She was born at Hillsboro May 31, 1864. In 1887 she became the wife of the late Burke C. Hill, who died in 1900. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Harry Wanless of Cass, and two sons, C. E. Hill of Covington and Lloyd Hill of Brownsville, Pennsylvania; also by her sister Mrs. Nannie Beard of Marlinton. For the last twenty five years Mrs. Hill has made her home with her son in Covington. Of her, the Covington Virginian says "She was of a delightful personality and one of Covington's most widely beloved women". |