Hill, Arnold Grant LAST: Hill FIRST: Arnold MID: Grant GENDER: M MAIDEN NAME:  TITLE:  BORN: 16 Nov 1906 DIED: 5 May 1921 BURIED:  (Burch Family Cemetery) OCCUPATION:  Student BIRTH PLACE:  Independence, Polk Co., Oregon DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon NOTES:  Name of father Homer Hill Maiden name of mother Fannie Martin 1920 OR CENSUS - Arnold Hill, age 13, b. Oregon, is enumerated with Homer, age 49, occupation grain farmer, b. Oregon, and Fannie, age 42, b. New York, along with  Martha, age 10, b. Oregon, Orville, age 7, b. Oregon, Eleanor, age 4, b. Oregon, and Dewey, age 61, identified as brother [of Homer], widowed, b. Oregon. OSBH DC (Marion County 1921) # 287 - Arnold G. Hill, male, single, student, b. 16 Nov 1906 in Independence, Oregon, d. 31 May 1921 in Salem, Oregon at the age of 14 y's 5 m's 19 d's, name of father Homer Hill (b. Independence, Oregon), maiden name of mother Fanny Martin (b. New Jersey), interment: 8 May 1921 Pioneer [Burch] Cemetery, undertaker C.W. Henkle, informant Homer Hill of Independence, Oregon. OBITUARY:  Arnold Grant Hill, 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Hill, well known residents of Independence, died at the Deaconess hospital in Salem on Thursday night of last week, spinal meningitis being the cause. A pupil in the eighth grade of the public school, he was taken ill about six weeks ago and a week later was taken to the Salem hospital. His trouble was not diagnosed as meningitis until a few days before the end.  The funeral was held from the Presbyterian church Sunday afternoon, Dr H. Charles Dunsmore officiating and interment was made in the Pioneer cemetery near Rickreall. The services were attended by many friends of the young man and family, and there was a profusion of flowers. The pall bearers were: C.E. Burroughs, W.O. Scott, J.M. Vergin, B.L. Johnson.  Arnold was born November 16, 1906, and was the oldest child. Besides his parents, he is survived by two sisters, Martha, aged 11, and Eleanor, five, and one brother, Orville, aged eight.  Among those comiong here to attend the services were: William Knotts and family of Corvallis, Mrs. Mary Locke and family of Corvallis, Wendall Denlinger of OAC, Richard Wood and family of Dallas, William Nesmith and the Burch family of Rickreall.  Sympathy is being extended to the sorrowing family.  Independence Enterprise, Friday, 13 May 1921, 1:5 INSCRIPTION:  Arnold Grant Hill Nov. 16, 1906 - May 5, 1921 Son of Homer and Fannie Hill SOURCES:  Saucy Survey & Photographs OSBH DC (Marion County 1921) #287 1920 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Independence, ED 368, sheet 9B) IE 13 May 1921 1:5 CONTACTS:  ROW:    IMAGES: