IIEUIKIi: V. HILL. A II A I) of heroltni aurround the memory of thu meu an J women who braved the danger nnd hardthli connected con-nected with tho owning or thollocky Mountain region to atttlement and civilization. They weru atrong character char-acter moat ol whoau erter liavu bcou lllumlualed ny deeMtoI daring. Among tliUitlauwaalholatufieorge W. Hill, wIiom deatli mi Tueaday, Fibruary tilth, hot already lieen auuouucvd, and whewu funeral waa conducted thla after-noon, after-noon, lu thu meeting houtu of tbu Twenty-eecond Ward. aeorgo W. Hill wat turn on March Mh, 16, at Amct, Atheni County, Olilo. I ii hi youth thu fitiully moved Into Illlnola,. In 18(1 t,0 detwtMil went to Mlwourl, and while lu that Htatumtt with a family named Htenart, who had received thu (Itwpel In auotlier lrt of Ihu country and weruoutlielr way to Join thu Halnta. lie Utamo attached to Hit family and a belluer In thu (loajiel, nu.l remalnud wltli them. He martleU Mia Cynthia Htowart on September 18th, 1815. A halt wa made for a lime at Muuut Plth and the winter or ISM-41 ISM-41 waa i.nt at Winter Quarter, llrotlnr Hill tout hi team, with lila broUierdn-Uw, Jame W. Hlewart, along hlth the Advance pioneer company, com-pany, under Prwldont Young, which croMil thu plain aud llrat filtered thlt valley, while he lilmaelf remained a abort tlmo to bring along thu Btuwart family. Hhortly before thl hit father-In-law died. Hu nudu tho journey, with tho family, the aanieyear(lSIT), arriving here on B.ylunber 'Mh. On thl trip hoacluil aa hunter fur thu company, n poiltlon for which hit ph)lcal klrength, coolnru aud tour-ago tour-ago admirably odipledhlni. An Incident Inci-dent lu thlt connection I worthy of mention. Wheu the company reached thu Plattol liver, a bear aud two cub wereobaervedlnabuiicli of willow and It wat decided to LIU thu grluly, A number of men approached thu place where thu wa located. Pretldeiit A, I), Huioot, who had charge of the company, Wat the only one nu lioneliAck. lleln lu an clovated po-iltlen po-iltlen Jia taw the wlllowa par! and uwteiLt'iltuii, hoy; the' a llfteeu hunJred iunder and la turning ut you " All the footmen took lo their hcultexca.pt llrother Hill, wholniily retired a rouplu of rodi to glto hhmeir a clear field, an I at thu brutu emirged he tent a bullet tulo her boily and Ul ailed her, Shu wai uot at tnrgv, hgn- ever, a wo Imagined Uferu he cauiu Into full view. Foraome lime after reaching hern llrother Hill ocvupled hi time In pllltliig rait and do'ng any other work he mull find lo enable him to Mippnri llio ftmlly. In 1811 he wain member of the company which, In that year, left thla valley In charge of Jrdo-dlih Jrdo-dlih M, Grant accompanying Atoallr John Taylor, lorenii Hnow, llrattu Know and Franklin II. ltlcliarda on the overland portion of their Journey to Huropu on nilniona to that rt or the world. lie wat aim hunter hun-ter rr that party nnd on the plain did conttant guard duty tor one-third one-third fart of each night, lietldea rc-poudlng rc-poudlng toother miulremenl In tbe thnie line, on account or other brethren lielng bcroalotially loo 111 to lake rt In tlie work. While lu Iheeti't nn thlt aamatrlp, hevMted the place where tlio HWw-art HWw-art family had rwldtd for the irn of obtaining auUI meant belonging t the ratal. He alta went to Mv III father1 family, none of whom had embraced the (biapel. When he rrachnl the ol 1 hmiictad be round hit rather on liltdrathbeil. The veil-erablu veil-erablu man recelvnl hi aou' twtl-mony, twtl-mony, liellevol the (loapel aud rejoiced. re-joiced. Ho nllnl the other mtmbert or the family around him nnd, al though tieorge waa the thlnl ton, he exhorted them to receive lilt teaching teach-ing and placed them In Ida charge. He then peacefully dual, tieorge had thu MtUfactloii of bringing tho family ovirtln.pl.lru In I1VI. Itwatlheu n Irltoua tf mu bet'aue of tho prevalence or cholera. Hepromlted them, however, how-ever, that tr they would be led by him not oue or them would he attacked by the iIImwc, which wa completely VI rifled. On thl trip tieorge wat placed In clotoquartcri. At South I'oa he lea the little company and came along abend on horailnck. He loat lila liorx on the way and wandered about In the moiinUIn three daya aud three night wllhoutfond. Hennlvrd atlhuplacu where Ogden now ttnndt worn out with fatigue and almoat famUlied, on the Illh or July, lViij, luring thu next few year Indian raid were frequent and Urorgu wa mueliy engaged at tho lnt of danger, aiding lu the protection of tho famlllra tulject to the greatett vxpotuio to attack. at-tack. He waa among Ihote who went to Salmon Hirer In 1IU to ratabllih et-llemenU et-llemenU In that region. Ho look great liilcreat Hi the welfare of thu Indian. Thlicauaed lilin to acpilru not only thu Hhothonu language, but that of tho llaunocke, Flat Hiadtand Nei Perce. In thl way he obtalueel much lnllu-enco lnllu-enco among the real men, who alw r. teemed hlra Ixvauiu or tlie fair nnd truthful cliiractr or all hi dealing wllh them. The Salmon Itlvcr et-tlerauaually et-tlerauaually camo Into Utah lu winter, win-ter, returning lu thu aprlng. In tlietu Interval Ororge occupied lili tlmo In Ogden In teaching the Indian language. lan-guage. He waa engaged lu thla part or the country In 1S57 81, In the latter tar, however, the Indiana nndu an attack upon the Halmou Hirer ai Itlement and llrother Hill waa tent front thlt clly aa one of ten who wrro nu ndrnnco relief company. The party wa In charge of llrothe r II. F. Cummlng. They made thudlalancuou horaeluick In nn In-cretllbly In-cretllbly abort lime. When they reac heel Ihelr dentlnatlon they found tho ret- Hera late, nnd had to return In poat haute to Intercept a heavier relief parly, who we re on the way, and let them know thilr tervlcea weru not needed. AtHanrcl. Creek tho Indiana In-diana attacked the little patty of leu and a hot fight enatied. One of the teu llrother Halley Lake Haakllled. Several Iiidlint weru ilaln and other wounded. Iteturnlty; to ISM It ihould lu raid that In that ear (le-orgo wa engaged In H.rf,irmlng duty a cxprcM courier under (leuiral Chaucey WnU'rom-mand. WnU'rom-mand. Part or Ihu time while attending attend-ing to thl labor he wo III with Mountain Moun-tain favtr, liiitnour lilt lila ut. In the genc(al "move" rrom Northern Utah, In ISS9, hu went hi Fillmore with lila family, and on hi way back wa, at Patou, proatraled wllh an attack or cholera, which he I airily airi-ly turvlvnl. From ilien till 1S64 uothlog or aitclal nolo occurred lu hit career. Ill tint, jear he "made thu round trip acroia tho plain to and troni the Mluourl Itlarr tu bring along tho emigrating Halnta, In Cailaln William 11. Fiction' company, doing duly a night herder, having entile charge of the tuck. In ISM tho Indiana weru on the war jutjli, and Urorgu occupied nearly the wholu araaon doing acout duty, patrolllug tltu mountain noilh mid eaal, to prevent ruri rite. Tho courageoua character ol tbe man wa exemplified lu 1671, while ho waa eiuploed a lilghtwatchmaii for thu Cenlrul Paclflo railroad at Ogden. A gang of three-cud inoutu men had made that town their headquarter, and engaged ytetna!lcally In robbing rob-bing the pataciigc-n. lhey weru drape dra-pe ratu character and for aomu tlmo weru having matter pretty much their own way, to thu great anno mice of imlilou Bujit. R. H. Pratt, llrother Hill laldhe'wuuld break up thu gang ir Mr. Pratt would aland by blm ao ho would not have to do to Jobaat tho tame time. He entered iinu tho work. Hu dogged the capn. When they caught u greenhorn (leorgu followed them right up to tho door of their .Ion, end nieachduiaa about to enter hu called him on one tldu nnd told him whatklud or character had Iilm lu tow. Thu iuobIo men eut word to blm that If he did uot Unlit they I would hoot him. He replied "Tell them when they undertake that they had Ntler I quick alanit II, and that they'm wtlcinie In all the adeauUge tliey can gi-t over me." The gang got to rhuotlng among themMlree, broke lip a Ml left tbe town. Tlie railroad comauy thought an much or him on account or thl aflalr that for ten yean afterward ho had only lo make a tvqucit to li paaaed over ths road to any joint he detlred, for It In lie granted. Til 187! (leorge wa engaged In rol-uniting rol-uniting Indian on Ihu Maled. Thl rained a great hubbub among the real. denUnH'orlnne, who nuerlcd that an Indian attack uwii them wo Intended. They demanded thai Die red men be dlalodged. Their reiptett wa granted, tnxij tlng tutit to the ajwt for thepuriura. However, the colony wat removed to a new location further up the Malad Hirer, and now c-xlrt Iherr, a Jicacefut cnmmunlly engagil lu auj-rilng auj-rilng lliemaelvr by agricultural Jiraulta. For eome yean rjOMijuently llrother Hill acted at Indian Interpreter. Inter-preter. Hit life ho been one cf dovotlou to Iho bent 111 or othen, hit own er-loual er-loual lutcrrtu lelng a matter of tub-ordinate tub-ordinate contldrraUnu. He waa a humblu nnd unobtrualvu man, of deep rrllglout convlctlont. mid hi memory will not only l rlierltheil by hi wife mid lx children, but by all who knew him and appreciated hi worth.