Most of the information for this family comes from the Hilton book, by Dr. Jackie Hilton
A wise and due consideration of our letter and is neither to render us sad, melancholy disconsolate, or unfit for the business and offices of life but to make us more watchful, vigilant, industrious, sober, cheerful and thankful to that God who hath been pleased thus to make us serviceable to him; conscience, an honest heart, and a well-ordered conversation, to carry the thoughts of dying men about us and so to live before we die as we shall wish we had when we come to it - Norris One of the saddest deaths to occur lately was the passing away of Mr. S.A. Hilton, a prominent farmer, a highly esteemed citizen and one more of the old ex-confederates, who recieved the final summons last Friday night very suddenly and unexpectedly, retiring at night without complaint and death overtaking him before day. Mr. Hilton was laid to rest in the Bethel Cemetery the following day, the funeral being conducted by the Masonic fraternity, of which he was a member. A large crowd of sorrowing relatives and friends was present. Mr. Hilton leaves a wife and a number of children to mourn his sudden death, besides a multitude of friends who drop a sympathetic tear with the bereft family in their sad loss, because a good man has been called to the home beyond the skies. We are sad but not so sad as those who have no hope.
Mrs. Sarah E. Hilton Rites Logansport, February 24, 1936 Mrs. Sarah E. Hilton, 81 years old, who passed away at her home in the Bethel community Thursday, February 20, after a lingering illness, was laid to rest Friday afternoon, at 2 o'clock in the cemetery adjoining the Bethel Methodist church which she and her husband built more than thirty years ago, and which has served the community as a place of worship for all denominations through the years. Mrs. Hilton and her husband, S.A. Hilton, who passed away several years ago, moved to this country from Mississippi more than fifty years ago and homesteaded in the Bethel community, where they reared a large family of children, five of whom survive her. They are Mrs. Manila Grantham, and Isaac, Pat Wightman and Marvin, and a number of grandchildren and great grandchildren. Funeral
services were held in the church she helped to build, and were conducted
by her pastor, the Rev. J.F. Wilson |
