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Note: Horace (Ed) Hill
Mr. Horace Edgar (Ed) Hill, age 66, of Smithfield, died Thursday, October 11, 1990 at the Jewish Hospital in Louisville. He was a Henry County Magistrate for twenty-five years, a farmer and a life member of the New Castle United Methodist Church.
Survivors include his wife: Betty Washburn Hill, Smithfield; one daughter: Mrs. Ron (Bernice) Southworth, Lexington; one son: Mr. H. Edgar Hill, Jr., Louisville; one brother: Mr. Weldon Harlan Hill, Rocklin, California and three grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday, October 14, at the Prewitt Funeral Home, New Castle, officiated by Rev. Garnett Slone, pastor of the New Castle United Methodist Church. Interment was in the New Castle Cemetery.
[Source: Henry County Local October 17, 1990
Horace Edgar "Ed" Hill was born near Smithfield, Kentucky. He was born in what we used as the dining room in the house his father built. The house was built to by his father and his father's brother, Marshall Tyler Hill, known as Rip, before his father and mother were married. Ed was fifth generation to live and farm on that the land. The farm he grew up on was part of the original farm purchased by his great great grandmother, Clarissa (Holloway) Hill when she move to Henry County from Virginia after a short stop in Fayette County, Kentucky.
Horace Edgar was married first to Jane Pardo and had one son, Forest Weldon Hill. They divorced when Forest Weldon, known as Mickey, was very young. After his divorce, he married Betty Jean Washburn, from Carroll County, Kentucky, in 1952. Ed and Betty Jean married shortly after Ed's mother, Bernice (Harlan) Hill, died of the breast cancer. They had two children Horace Edgar Hill, Jr. and Bernice Hill Southworth. Three of his four grandchildren (Elizabeth Hill, Stephen Hill and Wesley Southworth) were born before his death. His forth grandchild, Hagan Southworth, was born less than a year after he died.
He farmed almost his entire life, except for a short period of time when he worked at the Bourbon Stockyards in Louisville, Kentucky during the late 1950's. He had a disagreement with his father, William Weldon Hill, concerning the sharing of income from the farm. Ultimately his father gave in and he returned to the farm. Later, with the agreement of his brother, Horace Edgar bought the farm from his father. In the meantime, he also bought another farm that adjoined his father's farm on the back.
Ed served as a magistrate in Henry County for many years. He won his first election after a recount of the votes. He spent most of his years as magistrate fighting to enact zoning laws in the county. He died while still in office and after zoning was passed.
Ed died at age 66 at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky in 1990 during his second coronary bypass operation. His first coronary bypass was approximately 10 years earlier.
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