Betty's Critters - & History Views

 The fourth article article mentioned here states in the first sentence that Chincoteague is in Maryland, then, in the body of the article, taken from a Georgia paper, states that Chincoteague is along the "rock-clad" coast of Virginia....  I've been on a lot of boats around the island and between Ocean City and Wallops, but, other than some rip-rap, I don't remember a "rock-clad" coast.      The Chicago Tribune , on Tuesday, 23 June, has two separate articles printed under the headline "Driven To Death By Love."  The first article is about a young couple in Norristown, New Jersey.  We are interested in the second sub-headline:  "A Baltimore Case.    BALTIMORE, Md., June 22.  -  [Special.]  -  Two funerals wended their way to the little cemetery on Chincoteague Island yesterday afternoon.  In one grave were laid the remains of Jennie Hill.  In another part of the cemetery was buried Thomas Freeman, her forme...

    First, a few facts:  Emma Virginia "Jennie" Hill was the youngest child of Timothy Hill, Jr. and Zipporah Sharpley.  Jennie was born on February 25, 1872, and died from her wounds on June 18, 1885; she was not quite 13 years and 3 months of age.  She attended one of the four schools on Chincoteague, and was considered very bright and a good pianist.  Her father Timothy Hill was mainly an oysterman, but he also farmed several acres around his home in Deep Hole.  Zipporah Sharpley Hill was just shy of her 57th birthday when she and Jennie were shot.  It wasn't known if Zipporah would recover from her wounds, but she did. (Many news stories reported her death.)  She provided the funds for a window in the old Methodist Church that was dedicated to Jennie's memory a few years after the shooting; and she died in 1892, at the age of 64.  Timothy Hill, father and husband, died in 1900 at the age of 74. -  And the Hill family was already...