Great-Great Grandmother Mary A. Huntington
who was married to George Q. Roberts, then to Mr. Hillman after his
death.
Mary A. (Huntington) [Roberts]
Hillman b. 09 Feb 1825- NY d. 07 Sept 1901 Yazoo City, MS
Widow of George Q. Roberts
Obituary:
Mrs. M. A. Hillman
The subject of this notice died 7
Sept 1901, at Lodi, Yazoo Co. MS. , at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
C. R. Hunter. She was buried in the family burying ground at that
place, Sept 8th--Rev. J. D. Crymes conducting the funeral.
The deceased came to this
section of Mississippi in 1846, first settling in Holmes Co. After remaining there she went
with her husband, Mr. George Roberts,
to Lodi plantation. There she spent the greater portion of her
life, since that early removal, and has been identified with the people
of Yazoo Co. from that day to this, though she has out lived by many
years all of her contemporaries. We have not many who can say
that they have lived in this county for half a century.
Mrs. Hillman was three times
married, her first husband, being Mr. Jones Roberts, her second Mr. George Roberts, both of N. C., and
her third Mr. Hillman, who she
married during the Civil War. She leaves one daughter, Mrs. C. R. Hunter, and two sons, Minor H. Roberts and
George Q. Roberts . In addition
seven grandchildren and five great grand-children, survive her.
She not only had the care of her
own immediate family, but two sets of orphans were also hers to
raise. She was thus so situated that she necessarily and
willingly spent her life largely in the interests of others. Not
only her immediately family, but her friends as well, knew and
appreciated her strong and brave
character. When she died a woman of no ordinary mold passed away from us to join the great body of our race that
have gone on before.
Mrs. Hillman's name was Huntington,
a name borne by a multitude emanating from the same stock in our
country. A most interesting family history is in the possession
of the oldest granddaughter, Mrs. J. E . B. Blewett of our city, which
records the proceedings of the family convention held in Connecticut
more than fifty years ago. It is surprising to see the wide
distribution of this family throughout the United States and
Canada. Many of these names are illustrious in almost every
calling. The original of the family, Simon Huntington, came to
this country in 1639, and settled in Connecticut. From that
seed-plot plants have been drawn and transplanted to every part of the
country, the branch from which the deceased was descendant having gone
to North Carolina. There is perhaps no family in the history of
our country that has been more numerously distributed from the common
New England center than the one to which Mrs. Hillman belonged, and
none with a longer list of worthy names to its credit, both in this and
in the past generations of our country. The deceased was always
proud of the family history. She was, at the time of her death,
in correspondence with leading members of the connection with reference
to another reunion, which it was hoped, would be held within the near
future.
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