HILL, Rebecca Beckwith Travers

Rebecca Beckwith Travers Hill

Identification on photo: Cousin Rebecca Travers Hill
Photo taken: Donaldson Studio, Baltimore MD, circa 1914-1917
Purchased: not recorded

The back also contains an inscription written in Rebecca's hand: "For Uncle Hill, with Rebecca's best love." The penmanship which identifies her full name "Cousin Rebecca Travers Hill" is quite different and clearly not Rebecca who wrote that.

This is Rebecca Beckwith Travers, a native of Cambridge, Maryland. Born 1886 to parents William Henry Travers (1831-1895, son of Arthur Travers and Catherine Beckwith) and Laura Lavonia Radcliffe (1845-1924, daughter of John A Radcliffe and Rebecca Beckwith). Rebecca's mother Laura was also a half-sister to U.S. Senator George L. Radcliffe.

She is found on the 1900 Census > MD > Dorchester > Cambridge
TRAVERS, Laura R., head, July 1845, 54, wd, born in MD or MD parents
TRAVERS, John O., son, Jul 1884, 15, born in MD, grocery clerk
TRAVERS, Rebecca B., daughter, Apr 1886, 14, born in MD, at school

In Sept 1915, she married Walter Clay Hill of Atlanta Georgia, and the couple lived there for the remainder of their lives. Her is Walter's 1962 obituary:

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Rebecca's obit was carried in the Atlanta Constitution, 10 Aug 1967, but I see it stated she hailed from Cambridge Mass, which is incorrect.

This image of her headstone is from her memorial at Findagrave.com




Her children are:
Laura Radcliffe Hill-Boland (1917-1995)
Walter Clay Hill Jr. (1919-2011)
Travers Hill (1924-2016)

I will continue to pursue living descendants from these offspring of Rebecca.

Here is a lovely photo of Laura at the time of her engagement.