Clarrissa Birch Hilton (1835-1919)

HILTON, BIRCH, ACKLEY, HATTEN, YUEN

Posted By: Gail and Dennis Bell
Date: 6/11/2005 at 12:32:30

THE MAXWELL TRIBUNE, Maxwell, Story County, Iowa, Thursday, July 17, 1919, page 1. "AN AGED MOTHER IS LAID TO REST - Mrs. Clarissa Birch-Hilton, a Long Time Resident of the County, died July 12th. Mrs. Clarissa Birch-Hilton was born in Greencastle, Penn., December 27, 1835, having reached the ripe old age of nearly eighty-four years. Having lost her father when she was still a baby, she never knew a father's care. At the age of three years she was taken to Richmond, Ohio, and at sixteen went to **Sutbenville, Ohio, and a year later death claimed her mother. She accompanied her sister and family to Keokuk, Iowa, and later settled at Primrose, Iowa. In 1851 they moved to a farm near Bonepart, Van Buren county, Iowa, and in 1854 to Wapello county, near Ashland, Iowa. She was married on the 10th of June, 1855, to Geo. Hilton, and two years later they moved to a farm in Polk county. In the spring of 1859 they moved to Iowa Center, where they lived until the beginning of the Civil war, when her husband enlisted in the service of his country. He took his family to Wapello county, where they remained until the close of the war, when they returned to Polk county, where he died on the 10th of December, 1865, at the age of twenty-nine years. On the 2nd of January, 1868, she was married to J. K. Hilton and lived on farms in Polk and Story counties until April 1, 1887, when they moved to Maxwell, where Mr. Hilton preceded her in death seventeen years ago. She was the mother of four children by the first marriage, one of whom survive, Thos. T. Hilton, of Cambridge. She was also the mother of four children by the second marriage, two surviving her, William Hilton, of Maxwell, and John Hilton, of Black Hawk, S. D. She also leaves six grandchildren: Miss Laura Hilton, of Maxwell; Mrs. Charles Ackley, of Marshalltown; Edward Hilton, of Mitchell, S. D.; Mrs. Fred Hatten, of Leigh, Neb.; Earl Hilton in California, and Mrs. Grace Yuen, of Leigh, Neb. She made a profession of faith in Christ when she was a girl and united with the church. She was a consistent member of the Maxwell Presbyterian church at the time of her death. "Servant of God, well done! Thy glorious warfare's past; The battle's fought, the race is won And thou art crowned at last." The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at the Presbyterian church in charge of the pastor. Dr. C. Arnold Stewart. Interment was in the Maxwell cemetery. **Editorial note - Stubenville, Ohio is the correct spelling, not Sutbenville.

BURIAL: Iowa Historical Library, Des Moines, Iowa. STORY COUNTY, IOWA GRAVE MARKER INSCRIPTIONS Geneal. * F 627. S8 V. 1-6, pages 1-368, V. 7-11 pages 369-792, V. II pages 793-1128; Indian Creek Township, Inc. City of Maxwell, Maxwell Municipal Cemetery, page 458. SEC. - 1, ROW - 9, LOT - 11, MOTHER (HILTON); LOT - 12, James K. HILTON Nov 8 1844 - May 20 1902; Clarissa J. HILTON Dec 27 1835 - July 12 1919; LOT - 13 FATHER (HILTON) (GAR)