Rev. Halbert Hall, 92, Laid to Rest, Jan. 16,1924

Funeral Services for Halbert Hill to be Impressive. . . Dean of the Presbyterian Clergy in Carolina to be Laid to Rest Wednesday. . . Last Chaplain. . . All Business Activity Will Cease for Maxton for 15-Minute Period. . . Was Born in Raleigh. . . Served in Confederate Army as Chaplain—Served at Fayetteville for 15 Years

By the Associated Press

Maxton, N.C., Jan. 15—the body of the Rev. Dr. Halbert G. Hill, 92, dean of the Presbyterian clergy in North Carolina, who died at 7:15 o’clock this morning, will tomorrow lie in state among the people whom he loved and in the church he has served for 37 years.

From 11 o’clock tomorrow morning until 2 in the afternoon, the church will be opened that friends and neighbors of the dead clergyman may look for the last time upon his face. At 2 o’clock all business in the village will cease and a 15-minute silence will mark Maxton’s final tribute to her most distinguished citizen.

The funeral services will be held at Centre Presbyterian church, five miles from Maxton, at 3 o’clock, with interment following in the church yard.

Dr. Hill was born in Raleigh November 2, 1831, and graduated at Hampden-Sidney college in 1857. He entered the Union seminary in 1861 but the work of the institution being interrupted by the war between the states, he was licenses to preach by the Orange Presbytery in 1862, and immediately entered the Confederate army as chaplain of the 13th North Carolina regiment.

Discharged from the army because of ill health, he served various charges until 1868 when he was called to the First church of Fayetteville, where he served for 18 years. In 1886 he went to the Second (Scotch) Presbyterian church of Charleston, S.C., where he was a prominent figure in the relief work during the earthquake in 1886. From Charleston he came to Maxton, where he has since worked.

Dr. Hill was a member of the board of trustees of Union seminary from 1872 until his death, a member of the board of regents of the Barium Springs orphanage, a member of the synod home missions committee, moderator of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church in 1889, and moderator of the North Carolina synod in 1881.

Dr. Hill was twice married, both wives having preceded him to the grave.

He became ill with pneumonia on last Sunday, death resulting this morning.

The funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. E.L. Siler, co-pastor with Dr. Hill, and Rev. W.B. McIlwaine of Charlotte. He will be buried beside his second wife, who died a year ago, and his three children.

From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, Jan. 16, 1924