BEULAH HILL
1918-1954
  
Burns Fatal To Buelah Hill Of Mine Fork Clothing Ignites At Open
Grate Tuesday Night
  
Mrs. Beulah Williams Hill, 35, of Mine Fork died in a local hospital
at 4:40 a. m. Thursday from burns received at her home Tuesday night.
  
Mrs. Hill who was preparing her two small daughters for bed, came too
near an open grate in her home and her clothing caught on fire. Her
husband rushed to her aid and attempted to smother the flames with a
blanket but Mrs. Hill fled to the outside of the home where her
flaming clothing caused the fatal burns to her body.
  
Mrs. Hill was born May 14, 1918, a daughter of the late Everett
Williams and Grace Carpenter Williams. She had been a resident of
Mine Fork her entire life.
  
Surviving besides her mother, are her husband, Hobart Hill, two sons,
Willis and Ellis, two daughters, Martha and Delilah, all at Mine
Fork, and one sister, Mrs. Eulah Cantrell of Leander.
  
Funeral services were held at 10:30 Saturday morning at the home of
James Carpenter of Leander by Rev. Hammie May and Rev. Charley
Lemaster.
  
Burial was made in the family cemetery at Win under the direction of
the Paintsville Funeral Home.
  
Paintsville Herald
Wednesday
Jan.1954
     
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