The Journal Couer d' Alene Idaho Friday February 15, 1907 (front page)
Death Calls at Advanced Age of 90 Remains brought to this city Tuesday for burial Mrs. Debora T. Hill, mother of William and E. Hill, died Sunday at 6 o'clock p.m. at the home of her son, William at Half Round Bay, Idaho, at the advanced age of 90 years. The body was brought to this city and funeral services were held Tuesday at 9 o'clock a.m. from the chapel of the Couer d' Alene Undertaking Co. Rev. Barker of the Methodist Episcopal church officiating. Interment being in the Forest Cemetery. Just a work about Forest Cemetery. It is here in Coeur d' Alene it is all covered with a well kept lawn there are a great many fir trees in the cemetery many exceeding 100 feet in height. This cemetery covers approximately 21 acres and contains about 13,000 burials.
Deborah Theresa Carr Hill Deborah Theresa Carr was born in Ohio on August 16, 1817. On June 12, 1837 she married Lucius Hill in Ames twp. Athens Co., Ohio settling on a farm close to his parents, Nathan and Lucy (Bennett) Hill who were early settlers of the area. In 1856 the family moved to Davis Co., Iowa settling on land on Lick Creek. Deborah told of bushwackers who crossed into Iowa over the Missouri border causing much damage and distress in the area. Lucius left the family soon after arriving in Iowa and returned to Ohio and Deborah divorced him in 1866. She remained on the farm until the summer of 1886 when she moved with son Egbert and family to the Big Bend Country in Washington. In 1902 they again moved, this time homesteading land on Carlin Bay near Cour d' Alene, Idaho. Deborah was a mid-wife and often told the women in her family not to have a doctor attend them during childbirth claiming that they " weren'tclean enough". She delivered most of the babies in the family, including her great grand-children, Ethel (Schwartz) Harper, one of the great grand-children, now living in Martinez, Ca., clearly remembers her great grandmother living with them in a log cabin in Id. when her younger sister, MIldred, was born there in 1901. The children called Deborah, "Big Grandma" and her daughter-in-law, Eliza Ann, "Little Grandma". Both women barely reaching the height of five feet but Deborah, being on athe stout side, earned her this nickname. In a ledger book passed down to Deborah from her father-in-law, Nathan Hill, written in her hand, are several cures and treatments. Among them is this recipe for salve. " 1/2 oz. quicksilver 1/2 oz. nitric acid put in bottle and let stand for one hour then take 1/2 lb. lard. Boil it all down" Deborah died Feb. 10, 1907 at age 89 at Carlin Bay, Idaho. The family arrived at the funeral in Cour d' Alene by steamboat and she was buried at Forest cemetery in that town.
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