Lafayett was a Druggist.
Doctor, Farmer
Civil War Veteran, 7th Tennessee Regiment
Jefferson Medical College
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RESIWILLIAM GREEN HILL
Heroic Character of Novel Is Dead At 64.
Conington, Tennessee. May 3.- Service for Willim Green Hill. formerly of Covington and noted as a character of a noval, will be Wednesday at 10 a. m. at Munford Cemetery in Covington, with Maley Funeral Home in charge.
Mr Hill, who was 64, died after a heart attack Saturday at his home and Wiliam Green Hill, "by the late Fannie Boyd Calhoun a Covington writer. He was born in Covington and had lived in Mississippi and Colorado for 30 years. He was a radio advertising agent and a Presbyterian.
He leaves a son, Dick Hill of Jackson, Mississippi a daughter Mrs. W. H. Parker of Greenwood, Mississippi ; two brothers, Dr. F. S. Hill of Grenda, Mississippi, and T. L. Hill of Memphis; and a sisters, Mrs. S. A. Hamilton of Covington.From the Commercial Appeal of Memphis, Tenn, comes this in 1963:
William Green Hill's Pal.From Cincinnati comes a note from a man whom millions of people have read about during the past 50 years-William Green Hill.
That's the same William Green Hill who, as a little boy, was the principle character in the best-selling book, "Miss Minerva and William Green Hill, " by Mrs. Frances Boyd Calhoun, Covington, Tennessee published in 1909. It has gone thru many printings, and librarians tell me they still have calls for it today.
The charters in Mrs. Calhoun's book were real children-many of them neighbors she most of them ficititious names Not so, tho with the principle character. His real name was William Green Hill, and that washis name in the book.
He writes-
"Dear Eldon: Sanford Garner is dead. Remember Jimmy Garner in the book about us? Jimmy's real name was Sanford (Sanford Garner, born 1901 died 1963).
"He was employed by the Tennessee Employment Security Division, Nashville. His death is a blow to me. We were like brothers. He was my first cousin. This makes two in the book who are dead- Frances Black and now Sanford. William Green Hill, 557 Glenwood Lane, cincinnati, Ohio."
Ans: "So sorry you have lost your cousin and famous boyhood Pal. William. You must have some wonderful memories of him. You young fellers, thru the medium of Mrs. Calhoun's pen, Have been fun to millions."Mystery
William Green Hill Says that two of the principal characters in the book are now gone ,but I fear that the number is actually three.
Wilkes Booth Lincoln, the little negro boy in the book, playmate of William Green Hill, disappeared some years ago, and no one knows what became of him. His real name was Ed. Sanders.
Ed's mother died when he was a baby, and William Green Hil's grandmother took him and raised him. When he got big enough, he became her houseboy. And that's how it happened that he and William Green Hill became playmates.
As kids in the book, they could,t be awed or surprised by any information, no matter how amazing. They were know-it-alls. William Green Hill would invariably reply: "Aw, I've known that ever since me and Wilkes Booth Lincoln been born."
Once I asked willaim Green Hill how Mrs. Calhoun happened to write about him as a kid. He said, well she lived next door to them.
"I stayed more at her home than I did at my own," he said. "She was'nt any kin, but I Affectiontely called her aunt Fanny. She saw my childhood antics. I must have been quite a mischievous kid, but she seemed to adore my doing."
Federal Judge Marion S. boyd is a relative of the late Mrs. Calhoun. He and William Green Hill were boyhood friends in Covington, and attended the University of Tennessee together.
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RESIWILLIAM GREEN HILL
Heroic Character of Novel Is Dead At 64.
Conington, Tennessee. May 3.- Service for Willim Green Hill. formerly of Covington and noted as a character of a noval, will be Wednesday at 10 a. m. at Munford Cemetery in Covington, with Maley Funeral Home in charge.
Mr Hill, who was 64, died after a heart attack Saturday at his home and Wiliam Green Hill, "by the late Fannie Boyd Calhoun a Covington writer. He was born in Covington and had lived in Mississippi and Colorado for 30 years. He was a radio advertising agent and a Presbyterian.
He leaves a son, Dick Hill of Jackson, Mississippi a daughter Mrs. W. H. Parker of Greenwood, Mississippi ; two brothers, Dr. F. S. Hill of Grenda, Mississippi, and T. L. Hill of Memphis; and a sisters, Mrs. S. A. Hamilton of Covington.From the Commercial Appeal of Memphis, Tenn, comes this in 1963:
William Green Hill's Pal.From Cincinnati comes a note from a man whom millions of people have read about during the past 50 years-William Green Hill.
That's the same William Green Hill who, as a little boy, was the principle character in the best-selling book, "Miss Minerva and William Green Hill, " by Mrs. Frances Boyd Calhoun, Covington, Tennessee published in 1909. It has gone thru many printings, and librarians tell me they still have calls for it today.
The charters in Mrs. Calhoun's book were real children-many of them neighbors she most of them ficititious names Not so, tho with the principle character. His real name was William Green Hill, and that washis name in the book.
He writes-
"Dear Eldon: Sanford Garner is dead. Remember Jimmy Garner in the book about us? Jimmy's real name was Sanford (Sanford Garner, born 1901 died 1963).
"He was employed by the Tennessee Employment Security Division, Nashville. His death is a blow to me. We were like brothers. He was my first cousin. This makes two in the book who are dead- Frances Black and now Sanford. William Green Hill, 557 Glenwood Lane, cincinnati, Ohio."
Ans: "So sorry you have lost your cousin and famous boyhood Pal. William. You must have some wonderful memories of him. You young fellers, thru the medium of Mrs. Calhoun's pen, Have been fun to millions."Mystery
William Green Hill Says that two of the principal characters in the book are now gone ,but I fear that the number is actually three.
Wilkes Booth Lincoln, the little negro boy in the book, playmate of William Green Hill, disappeared some years ago, and no one knows what became of him. His real name was Ed. Sanders.
Ed's mother died when he was a baby, and William Green Hil's grandmother took him and raised him. When he got big enough, he became her houseboy. And that's how it happened that he and William Green Hill became playmates.
As kids in the book, they could,t be awed or surprised by any information, no matter how amazing. They were know-it-alls. William Green Hill would invariably reply: "Aw, I've known that ever since me and Wilkes Booth Lincoln been born."
Once I asked willaim Green Hill how Mrs. Calhoun happened to write about him as a kid. He said, well she lived next door to them.
"I stayed more at her home than I did at my own," he said. "She was'nt any kin, but I Affectiontely called her aunt Fanny. She saw my childhood antics. I must have been quite a mischievous kid, but she seemed to adore my doing."
Federal Judge Marion S. boyd is a relative of the late Mrs. Calhoun. He and William Green Hill were boyhood friends in Covington, and attended the University of Tennessee together.
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