As Ever Yours
Debbie E. H. Hillis
VI. Debbie Emily, daughter of [Geo. F. Horton and Abigail Terry], born at Terrytown, 7 Nov., 1843; married at Terrytown, 30 June, 1868, by Rev. D. Craft, to William James Hillis, M. D., son of Richard Hillis and Margaret Nesbit, and born in Herrick, Bradford Co., Pa., in 1841. He commenced the practice of medicine at Barclay, Bradford Co., Pa., where he commenced housekeeping, but his wife's health failing, she returned to Terrytown, where she died from tuberculosis; vide obituary.
VII. Nancy Terry, daughter of [Geo. F. Horton and Abigail Terry], born at Terrytown, 15 July, 1846; vide obituary:
Hillis.—On Friday, March 26th, 1869, at the residence of her father, Dr. G. F. Horton, in Terrytown, Mrs. Deborah E., wife of Dr. W. J. Hillis, of Barclay. She was born Nov., 1844, born again Feb., 1866, and has passed from earth to heaven.
The following lines were written by a lady in the West, on the death of Mrs. Hillis:
LINES ON THE DEATH OF COUSIN DEBBIE.
She faded away in the early spring-time,
Ere Nature put on her robe of green,
And with a peaceful look in her clear blue eyes,