HILL, Amy Agnes

Prescott Evening Courier, Prescott, Arizona Wednesday, August 31, 1932, page 1 Mrs. Amy Hill Passes Beyond Mrs, Amy Hill, long a resident of Prescott and the mother of George Hill, of the Samuel Hill Hardware company and Mrs. Robert E. Geimer, wife of the Prescott assistant postmaster, died peacefully in her 124 Park avenue home at eight-thirty o'clock last night, following her third stroke of paralysis Saturday night. The Rev. Godfrey Matthews of the First Congregational church will conduct the funeral services at four o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the Lester Ruffner chapel. Other services will follow in the Odd Fellows - Knight of Pythias cemetery under the auspices of the Rebekahs, with which Mrs. Hill has been affiliated. From noon tomorrow for the rest of the day the Hill store will be closed. In tribute to Mrs. Hill, Miss Sharlot M. Hall, a friend of many years, has written the following: By Sharlot M. Hall And this is life - to have and hold A little love, a little gold; To prove the Deam with work well done; To rest awhile before the sun Drops down to night - then journey on An unknown road to meet the Dawn Fifty-five years ago a little girl climbed down from the heat of an old-time stage coach into the arms of her father. Her mother and other members of the family followed and Daniel Dwyer had his dear ones all together after more than a year of separation. Last night at eight-thirty, the woman who was that little girl took her way out into the Beyond where the father had again gone before her. She died on the twenty-seventh anniversary of his death, and she left children and grand-children and friends and towns-people to mourn her death. Soon after the museum was established in the old Governor's Mansion, Mrs. Hill brought to the collection a little pare of wooden soled shoes, Yorkshire clogs, which Daniel Dwyer had brought home with him from a visit to England for his grandson, Eddie Hill. These shoes are still the delight of the children who visit the museum. For many years Mrs. Hill was socially active in Prescott and was a member of the Eastern Star, the Pythian Sisters and a charter member of the Rebecca lodge of the Odd Fellows. She was an active worker in each and was on her way to a state meeting of Rebeccas when word reached her of the death of her son, Eddie. Following the death of her husband some years ago Mrs. Hill became less active socially but kept her large circle of devoted friends. After the beginning of her serious illness about two years ago, when she suffered a stroke while visiting friends in Tucson, she has been confined to her home and much of the time to her bed. When she could have them, her friends continued to visit her and their affection cheered the hours of invalidism so hard for one who had been so active. Her children, George Hill and his wife, and Mrs. Louise Geimer and her husband, and her lovely and gifted grandchildren filled the last years with devoted attention and care. Prescott was jut thirteen years old when little Amy Agnes Dwyer came traveling in on a stage-coach from Grand Junction, Kansas, to grow up with he town. A year before, her father had come with an over-land wagon outfit and had already made a place for himself and a home for his family. Litty Amy had begun to travel early in life - when she was only six weeks old, the Dwyer family came from England to America, and from the Atlantic coast to frontier Kansas. She was only 8 years old when Prescott became her home town; the place where she went to school and grew into girlhood and young womanhood. Born in Leeds, England, she was a typical English girl in character and appearance - gentle, a little shy, a bit dignified and quiet, and as pink and white as English Hawthorne in spring. She has still a girlhood friend, Mary Floyd Platten of Williams, to tell of her popularity with the young people of Prescott. Presently the friendship between Amy Dwyer and a young English business man of Prescott deepened into love and she became Mrs. Samuel Hill. Four children were born of this union, only two of whom are now living. William died early and Edmund was killed while scarcely past high school days in one of the first automobile accidents in Yavapai county. Mrs. Hill was a member of the Episcopal church and found special comfort in the visits of her pastor during her long illness. Though all who knew her mourn the all too early end of her life, yet in the years given to her she entered so heartily into everything promoting the good of home and community that she has left a real legacy to the city in which she spent fifty-five years. ------------------------------