Ronia Hill|
Ronia Hill 1902
Ronia Hill was born Sept. 2, 1891 and died Aug. 25, 1956
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Ronia's children
Ora H. Stancil |
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Willard "Bill" Stancil Sept. 13, 1914-Nov. 5, 1983 |
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Eula Mae Stancil July 5, 1918-Dec. 25, 2006 |
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Mozell Stancil Dec. 1, 1920-Sept. 1, 1975 Middlesex, NC |
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Alice Stancil Price Jan. 12, 1923-Jan. 7, 2021 |
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C.D. Stancil Sept. 20, 1933-Dec. 20, 1963 |
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Shirley Ann Stancil Aug. 2, 1936-Sept. 11, 2020 |
Ronia Hill was born Sept. 2, 1891.
She was the second child and second daughter of Tempy Ann and Fred Hill.
Ronia went to school in the Slave House at the Boyette Homestead.
Ronia registered as a Republican when women got to vote.
Ronia made quilts. She used flour sacks to make quilts and dresses for the children. She had a big garden, made butter, and gave it to the neighbors. Chickens ran loose. She kept cats in the house and had a cat hole in the corner of the door for them. She had an outhouse with two holes and a pit dug underneath it.
She carried a lantern when they used it at night. She made clothes for the children and had a Singer treadle sewing machine. She made biscuits three times per day. Ronia read the Bible and knitted stockings for the children.
Christmas was celebrated with the children hanging their stockings and receiving fruit, nuts, and stick candy in the stockings on Christmas morning. Ronia made a cake with gum balls for the reunions.
Stephen built the outhouse. Stephen and Ronia had hog killings in the fall, and Ronia fed everyone. They also had barn raisings with the noon meal cooked by Ronia.
Stephen made syrup for folks in the neighborhood. They brought over their sugar cane to his mill. His children enjoyed eating the crystallized syrup. Fifty gallons of syrup would last all year. Stephen did not make whiskey or wine.
Stephen had brown eyes and black hair. He grayed early. Stephen was a farmer. He raised tobacco, corn, cotton, and sugar cane. Two or three neighbors worked together to gather the tobacco. Everyone returned to their own homes for lunch.
He had cows, hogs, chickens, and mules. Mules named Mollie, she was brown, and Gray, a gray mule. The children rode them. He drove a mule and buggy to town. He went to school. He was a Republican. He never read much. They took the Smithfield Herald weekly newspaper.
Stephen died of a stroke, and his funeral was held at New Jerusalem Church. He was buried at the Church Cemetery. Ronia and C. D. were buried there too. C.D.'s funeral was at New Jerusalem Church. Delia's funeral was at home. When Ronia died, she had no gray hair.
Stephen and Ronia had a Family Bible. Ronia wrote the names of the children in it.
Daughter Ora went to Moore School House for six years. Ora did most of the cooking. She also milked the cow. She recalls helping her mother make an apple cake. Ronia had the recipe in her head, never wrote it down. Ora helped with the plowing at home and helped the neighbors with tobacco.
Ora met her husband, F. Price, in the neighborhood. They married in Smithfield on May 6, 1931. Ora wore a short blue dress with long sleeves. She had on a lavender hat.
She received a wedding ring set around 1940. Family at the wedding included Esker Price, Joe Crockrell, and Austin Price. They were driven to the wedding by an uncle in a Model T Car.
Ronia and Stephen gave Ora a table, bed, and feather mattress as wedding presents. Ora and F. lived with F's mother. They'd go over to Ronia and Stephen's to farm. Later, F. worked for the State of North Carolina. Ora made quilts and had a quilt that Ronia made.
Ora and her husband were both Republicans.
Ronia was sick a lot. She had a stroke at home and had been in the Woodard Heron Hospital in Wilson. A coffin was bought, and her funeral was preached at home. She was buried in Hill Cemetery and later moved to New Jerusalem Church Cemetery.
Willard enjoyed hunting fox, possum, and raccoons. He kept dogs and often hunted and fished alone.
Zilphia, Millard's wife, made a special coconut cake for the reunions.
Pearl had black hair.
Eula had Ronia's sewing machine.
Mozell was buried at Antioch Baptist Church in Middlesex, N.C.
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