Obituary
Robert Jamison Hillard was born near Murrinsville, Butler county, PA., April 30, 1830 and died March 4, 1914. He died at the residence of his son-in-law, A. E. Farnsworth , near Kane, Pa., where he and Mrs. Hillard had gone to spend the winter with their daughter. He had been very sick for six weeks preceding his death, and had suffered intensely from pain and nausea. For ten years preceding he had been blind, able to the greater part of the tine to discern only a little light – an almost total blindness.
For more than sixty years he had been a resident of Clarington, Forest county or the immediate vicinity, and in all these years he had never resided more than two mile from the place where after his marriage, he and his wife began keeping house. Mr. Hillard was well known to a great many of the people in Forest county, and in the adjoining counties of Elk, Jefferson and Clarion. He enjoyed the respect of all who knew him, and no man sustained a better reputation for honest and integrity than he. Of the more than sixty years spent on the Clarion river all but the last fifteen years was spent by him in the lumber woods, part of the time as a common laborer, part of the time as a jobber. He was reckoned a good woodsman, good in the use of the saw, the double-bitted chopping ax, and the broad ax used in the hewing. He sawed for many a day on the Billy Amrstrong ???ight saw-mill near Clarington, and the John Brandon mill of the same kind at the mouth of Maple creek, one mile below Clarington. He was a "shingle weaver" of no little skill having sawed, split, and shaved many a thousand of pine shingles in the says when shaved pine shingles were about the only kind used in this part of the country. He "rafted and run" on the Clarion river for many a year, and was well known from Little Tobey to the mouth of the Clarion, and on down the Allegheny to Pittsburgh. He was a pilot on both the creek and on the river for many ears, and felt a pardonable pride that in all the years in which he piloted he never had an accident.
He was a member of the M. E. church at Clarington in 1858 when Rev. Geo Moore and Rev. Robert Scott were in charge of the work that included Clarington as an appointment. He had been in continuous membership there since.
The remains were brought to Clarington and services held in the First Methodist church there on the afternoon of Friday March 6, by Rev. D. O. May, the pastor. Afterwards the body was laid away in the Clarington cemetery. There were present at the funeral his wife, and all the children except Mrs. Elder. The Pall bearers were his two sone, Anson and Philip, his two grandsons, Chester and Edward Hillard, His son-in-law, A. E. Farnsworth, and his nephew, Thomas J. Hillard of Bruin, PA.
We feel we can truthfully pay this tribute to the deceased: A Christian man, and a good man in the various relationships he sustained both to the community and to those of his kith and kin.
CHILDREN:
James Eugene Hillard 1854 – 1927
Guyas F Hillard 1856 – 1860
Hortense Callista Hillard 1857 – 1880
Eliza Ann Louisa Hillard 1859 – 1880
Elma Christine Hillard 1861 – 1929
Ulysses Lionel Grant Hillard 1863 – 1891
Leonora Hillard 1865 – 1933
Anson Burlingame Hillard 1867 – 1926
Millicent Hillard 1868 – 1879
Philip Roland Hillard 1870 – 1954
Mable L Hillard 1876 – 1933
Ruby St. Clair Hillard 1882 – 1890
Robert Jamison Hillard was born near Murrinsville, Butler county, PA., April 30, 1830 and died March 4, 1914. He died at the residence of his son-in-law, A. E. Farnsworth , near Kane, Pa., where he and Mrs. Hillard had gone to spend the winter with their daughter. He had been very sick for six weeks preceding his death, and had suffered intensely from pain and nausea. For ten years preceding he had been blind, able to the greater part of the tine to discern only a little light – an almost total blindness.
For more than sixty years he had been a resident of Clarington, Forest county or the immediate vicinity, and in all these years he had never resided more than two mile from the place where after his marriage, he and his wife began keeping house. Mr. Hillard was well known to a great many of the people in Forest county, and in the adjoining counties of Elk, Jefferson and Clarion. He enjoyed the respect of all who knew him, and no man sustained a better reputation for honest and integrity than he. Of the more than sixty years spent on the Clarion river all but the last fifteen years was spent by him in the lumber woods, part of the time as a common laborer, part of the time as a jobber. He was reckoned a good woodsman, good in the use of the saw, the double-bitted chopping ax, and the broad ax used in the hewing. He sawed for many a day on the Billy Amrstrong ???ight saw-mill near Clarington, and the John Brandon mill of the same kind at the mouth of Maple creek, one mile below Clarington. He was a "shingle weaver" of no little skill having sawed, split, and shaved many a thousand of pine shingles in the says when shaved pine shingles were about the only kind used in this part of the country. He "rafted and run" on the Clarion river for many a year, and was well known from Little Tobey to the mouth of the Clarion, and on down the Allegheny to Pittsburgh. He was a pilot on both the creek and on the river for many ears, and felt a pardonable pride that in all the years in which he piloted he never had an accident.
He was a member of the M. E. church at Clarington in 1858 when Rev. Geo Moore and Rev. Robert Scott were in charge of the work that included Clarington as an appointment. He had been in continuous membership there since.
The remains were brought to Clarington and services held in the First Methodist church there on the afternoon of Friday March 6, by Rev. D. O. May, the pastor. Afterwards the body was laid away in the Clarington cemetery. There were present at the funeral his wife, and all the children except Mrs. Elder. The Pall bearers were his two sone, Anson and Philip, his two grandsons, Chester and Edward Hillard, His son-in-law, A. E. Farnsworth, and his nephew, Thomas J. Hillard of Bruin, PA.
We feel we can truthfully pay this tribute to the deceased: A Christian man, and a good man in the various relationships he sustained both to the community and to those of his kith and kin.
CHILDREN:
James Eugene Hillard 1854 – 1927
Guyas F Hillard 1856 – 1860
Hortense Callista Hillard 1857 – 1880
Eliza Ann Louisa Hillard 1859 – 1880
Elma Christine Hillard 1861 – 1929
Ulysses Lionel Grant Hillard 1863 – 1891
Leonora Hillard 1865 – 1933
Anson Burlingame Hillard 1867 – 1926
Millicent Hillard 1868 – 1879
Philip Roland Hillard 1870 – 1954
Mable L Hillard 1876 – 1933
Ruby St. Clair Hillard 1882 – 1890
Obituary
Robert Jamison Hillard was born near Murrinsville, Butler county, PA., April 30, 1830 and died March 4, 1914. He died at the residence of his son-in-law, A. E. Farnsworth , near Kane, Pa., where he and Mrs. Hillard had gone to spend the winter with their daughter. He had been very sick for six weeks preceding his death, and had suffered intensely from pain and nausea. For ten years preceding he had been blind, able to the greater part of the tine to discern only a little light – an almost total blindness.
For more than sixty years he had been a resident of Clarington, Forest county or the immediate vicinity, and in all these years he had never resided more than two mile from the place where after his marriage, he and his wife began keeping house. Mr. Hillard was well known to a great many of the people in Forest county, and in the adjoining counties of Elk, Jefferson and Clarion. He enjoyed the respect of all who knew him, and no man sustained a better reputation for honest and integrity than he. Of the more than sixty years spent on the Clarion river all but the last fifteen years was spent by him in the lumber woods, part of the time as a common laborer, part of the time as a jobber. He was reckoned a good woodsman, good in the use of the saw, the double-bitted chopping ax, and the broad ax used in the hewing. He sawed for many a day on the Billy Amrstrong ???ight saw-mill near Clarington, and the John Brandon mill of the same kind at the mouth of Maple creek, one mile below Clarington. He was a "shingle weaver" of no little skill having sawed, split, and shaved many a thousand of pine shingles in the says when shaved pine shingles were about the only kind used in this part of the country. He "rafted and run" on the Clarion river for many a year, and was well known from Little Tobey to the mouth of the Clarion, and on down the Allegheny to Pittsburgh. He was a pilot on both the creek and on the river for many ears, and felt a pardonable pride that in all the years in which he piloted he never had an accident.
He was a member of the M. E. church at Clarington in 1858 when Rev. Geo Moore and Rev. Robert Scott were in charge of the work that included Clarington as an appointment. He had been in continuous membership there since.
The remains were brought to Clarington and services held in the First Methodist church there on the afternoon of Friday March 6, by Rev. D. O. May, the pastor. Afterwards the body was laid away in the Clarington cemetery. There were present at the funeral his wife, and all the children except Mrs. Elder. The Pall bearers were his two sone, Anson and Philip, his two grandsons, Chester and Edward Hillard, His son-in-law, A. E. Farnsworth, and his nephew, Thomas J. Hillard of Bruin, PA.
We feel we can truthfully pay this tribute to the deceased: A Christian man, and a good man in the various relationships he sustained both to the community and to those of his kith and kin.
CHILDREN:
James Eugene Hillard 1854 – 1927
Guyas F Hillard 1856 – 1860
Hortense Callista Hillard 1857 – 1880
Eliza Ann Louisa Hillard 1859 – 1880
Elma Christine Hillard 1861 – 1929
Ulysses Lionel Grant Hillard 1863 – 1891
Leonora Hillard 1865 – 1933
Anson Burlingame Hillard 1867 – 1926
Millicent Hillard 1868 – 1879
Philip Roland Hillard 1870 – 1954
Mable L Hillard 1876 – 1933
Ruby St. Clair Hillard 1882 – 1890
Robert Jamison Hillard was born near Murrinsville, Butler county, PA., April 30, 1830 and died March 4, 1914. He died at the residence of his son-in-law, A. E. Farnsworth , near Kane, Pa., where he and Mrs. Hillard had gone to spend the winter with their daughter. He had been very sick for six weeks preceding his death, and had suffered intensely from pain and nausea. For ten years preceding he had been blind, able to the greater part of the tine to discern only a little light – an almost total blindness.
For more than sixty years he had been a resident of Clarington, Forest county or the immediate vicinity, and in all these years he had never resided more than two mile from the place where after his marriage, he and his wife began keeping house. Mr. Hillard was well known to a great many of the people in Forest county, and in the adjoining counties of Elk, Jefferson and Clarion. He enjoyed the respect of all who knew him, and no man sustained a better reputation for honest and integrity than he. Of the more than sixty years spent on the Clarion river all but the last fifteen years was spent by him in the lumber woods, part of the time as a common laborer, part of the time as a jobber. He was reckoned a good woodsman, good in the use of the saw, the double-bitted chopping ax, and the broad ax used in the hewing. He sawed for many a day on the Billy Amrstrong ???ight saw-mill near Clarington, and the John Brandon mill of the same kind at the mouth of Maple creek, one mile below Clarington. He was a "shingle weaver" of no little skill having sawed, split, and shaved many a thousand of pine shingles in the says when shaved pine shingles were about the only kind used in this part of the country. He "rafted and run" on the Clarion river for many a year, and was well known from Little Tobey to the mouth of the Clarion, and on down the Allegheny to Pittsburgh. He was a pilot on both the creek and on the river for many ears, and felt a pardonable pride that in all the years in which he piloted he never had an accident.
He was a member of the M. E. church at Clarington in 1858 when Rev. Geo Moore and Rev. Robert Scott were in charge of the work that included Clarington as an appointment. He had been in continuous membership there since.
The remains were brought to Clarington and services held in the First Methodist church there on the afternoon of Friday March 6, by Rev. D. O. May, the pastor. Afterwards the body was laid away in the Clarington cemetery. There were present at the funeral his wife, and all the children except Mrs. Elder. The Pall bearers were his two sone, Anson and Philip, his two grandsons, Chester and Edward Hillard, His son-in-law, A. E. Farnsworth, and his nephew, Thomas J. Hillard of Bruin, PA.
We feel we can truthfully pay this tribute to the deceased: A Christian man, and a good man in the various relationships he sustained both to the community and to those of his kith and kin.
CHILDREN:
James Eugene Hillard 1854 – 1927
Guyas F Hillard 1856 – 1860
Hortense Callista Hillard 1857 – 1880
Eliza Ann Louisa Hillard 1859 – 1880
Elma Christine Hillard 1861 – 1929
Ulysses Lionel Grant Hillard 1863 – 1891
Leonora Hillard 1865 – 1933
Anson Burlingame Hillard 1867 – 1926
Millicent Hillard 1868 – 1879
Philip Roland Hillard 1870 – 1954
Mable L Hillard 1876 – 1933
Ruby St. Clair Hillard 1882 – 1890
Family Members
Siblings
Half Siblings
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Rev James Eugene Hillard
1854–1923
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Guyas F Hillard
1855 – unknown
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Hortense Callista Hillard
1857–1880
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Eliza Ann Louisa Hillard
1859 – unknown
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Elma Christine Hillard Elder
1861–1929
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Ulysses Lionel Grant Hillard
1863–1891
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Lenora Hillard Shriver
1865–1933
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Anson Burlingame Hillard
1866–1926
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Millicent Hillard
1868 – unknown
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Philip Roland Hillard
1870–1954
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Mable L. Hillard Farnsworth
1873–1933
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Ruby St. Clair Hillard
1882–1891
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