These are recollections from one of my aunts, Michael's grand daughter:
To his grandchildren, Michael was never called grampa. He was called Pop Conboy, 'Pop' in person. This is a written recollection from one of those grandkids, a daughter of Bill and Gladys(Hill) Conboy:
Below is not so much a profile, but just talking about Pop so you might know him better. He was the only grandparent I knew. While I saw Dad Hill growing up, I don't remember him ever holding a conversation with me. And of course, Clara, I saw her at 6 years old & agian at 18 so I never really had a grandmother. Dad's sister, Pearl, was just like Dad - what a lovely person she was.
As for Pop. Pop and Corinne had two very young children and on December 20, his second son, William John, was born; on December 24, he lost Coreena. He called his Mother to help, but she couldn't come because Michael, Pop's father, was dying. He lost his father on the same day of Corinne's demise. Imagine living through that with a newborn and 2 other children in 1901. He had to be a strong man.
He always tried to help anyone needing it. If you just mentioned something, he would try to make it happen, whether friend or family. His children were raised with a proud work ethic, great respect for thier father and family, all were soft spoken and all three remained exceptionally close all of their life.
He was the road commisioner and farmed both farms, owned and ran a saloon. Not much time for playing. He was just like Dad, very generous to everyone, very good to his family. He bought a home for his sister, Aunt Annie, she was single and helped raise Dad. He would have liked his sons to be bankers, so their lives would be easier than farming; they attended Brown's Business College in Springfield, but they both loved the soil and both farmed. Dad kept very good financial books, probably from learning this at college. (Had he been a banker, his physical life would have been easier and we might have had him longer).
I remember Pop driving from Cantrall to have Sunday dinner with us. He always brought 2 1/2 gallons of vanilla ice cream (I think he knew how much my Dad loved ice cream). He drove big black 4 door oldsmobiles and he drove fast. Joyce and I stayed with him at Cantrall for a few weeks in the summer.
He would drive fast and we would slide all over the back seat and loved it. He let us have the run of the upstairs, there were trunks with old stuff in them & papers from the college. He introduced us to neighborhood girls our age so we had friends to play with while staying with him. He took us to Johnny Curry's grocery store in Cantrall and we bought all of the penny candy we could eat. We would drive a couple of blocks & have lunch. He took us to see his brother Darby & family. Everyone knew him and he knew everyone.
Lily, in those days, children were given wrist watches when they graduated 8th grade. Pop didn't know if he would still be around when we graduated; he gave Dad the money for our watches early.
Dad farmed Pop's place in Cantrall for awhile, but it was very time consuming, he had to drive tractors. etc from Pl Plains to Cantrall and of course, we didn't know about Dad's heart problems.
To his grandchildren, Michael was never called grampa. He was called Pop Conboy, 'Pop' in person. This is a written recollection from one of those grandkids, a daughter of Bill and Gladys(Hill) Conboy:
Below is not so much a profile, but just talking about Pop so you might know him better. He was the only grandparent I knew. While I saw Dad Hill growing up, I don't remember him ever holding a conversation with me. And of course, Clara, I saw her at 6 years old & agian at 18 so I never really had a grandmother. Dad's sister, Pearl, was just like Dad - what a lovely person she was.
As for Pop. Pop and Corinne had two very young children and on December 20, his second son, William John, was born; on December 24, he lost Coreena. He called his Mother to help, but she couldn't come because Michael, Pop's father, was dying. He lost his father on the same day of Corinne's demise. Imagine living through that with a newborn and 2 other children in 1901. He had to be a strong man.
He always tried to help anyone needing it. If you just mentioned something, he would try to make it happen, whether friend or family. His children were raised with a proud work ethic, great respect for thier father and family, all were soft spoken and all three remained exceptionally close all of their life.
He was the road commisioner and farmed both farms, owned and ran a saloon. Not much time for playing. He was just like Dad, very generous to everyone, very good to his family. He bought a home for his sister, Aunt Annie, she was single and helped raise Dad. He would have liked his sons to be bankers, so their lives would be easier than farming; they attended Brown's Business College in Springfield, but they both loved the soil and both farmed. Dad kept very good financial books, probably from learning this at college. (Had he been a banker, his physical life would have been easier and we might have had him longer).
I remember Pop driving from Cantrall to have Sunday dinner with us. He always brought 2 1/2 gallons of vanilla ice cream (I think he knew how much my Dad loved ice cream). He drove big black 4 door oldsmobiles and he drove fast. Joyce and I stayed with him at Cantrall for a few weeks in the summer.
He would drive fast and we would slide all over the back seat and loved it. He let us have the run of the upstairs, there were trunks with old stuff in them & papers from the college. He introduced us to neighborhood girls our age so we had friends to play with while staying with him. He took us to Johnny Curry's grocery store in Cantrall and we bought all of the penny candy we could eat. We would drive a couple of blocks & have lunch. He took us to see his brother Darby & family. Everyone knew him and he knew everyone.
Lily, in those days, children were given wrist watches when they graduated 8th grade. Pop didn't know if he would still be around when we graduated; he gave Dad the money for our watches early.
Dad farmed Pop's place in Cantrall for awhile, but it was very time consuming, he had to drive tractors. etc from Pl Plains to Cantrall and of course, we didn't know about Dad's heart problems.
These are recollections from one of my aunts, Michael's grand daughter:
To his grandchildren, Michael was never called grampa. He was called Pop Conboy, 'Pop' in person. This is a written recollection from one of those grandkids, a daughter of Bill and Gladys(Hill) Conboy:
Below is not so much a profile, but just talking about Pop so you might know him better. He was the only grandparent I knew. While I saw Dad Hill growing up, I don't remember him ever holding a conversation with me. And of course, Clara, I saw her at 6 years old & agian at 18 so I never really had a grandmother. Dad's sister, Pearl, was just like Dad - what a lovely person she was.
As for Pop. Pop and Corinne had two very young children and on December 20, his second son, William John, was born; on December 24, he lost Coreena. He called his Mother to help, but she couldn't come because Michael, Pop's father, was dying. He lost his father on the same day of Corinne's demise. Imagine living through that with a newborn and 2 other children in 1901. He had to be a strong man.
He always tried to help anyone needing it. If you just mentioned something, he would try to make it happen, whether friend or family. His children were raised with a proud work ethic, great respect for thier father and family, all were soft spoken and all three remained exceptionally close all of their life.
He was the road commisioner and farmed both farms, owned and ran a saloon. Not much time for playing. He was just like Dad, very generous to everyone, very good to his family. He bought a home for his sister, Aunt Annie, she was single and helped raise Dad. He would have liked his sons to be bankers, so their lives would be easier than farming; they attended Brown's Business College in Springfield, but they both loved the soil and both farmed. Dad kept very good financial books, probably from learning this at college. (Had he been a banker, his physical life would have been easier and we might have had him longer).
I remember Pop driving from Cantrall to have Sunday dinner with us. He always brought 2 1/2 gallons of vanilla ice cream (I think he knew how much my Dad loved ice cream). He drove big black 4 door oldsmobiles and he drove fast. Joyce and I stayed with him at Cantrall for a few weeks in the summer.
He would drive fast and we would slide all over the back seat and loved it. He let us have the run of the upstairs, there were trunks with old stuff in them & papers from the college. He introduced us to neighborhood girls our age so we had friends to play with while staying with him. He took us to Johnny Curry's grocery store in Cantrall and we bought all of the penny candy we could eat. We would drive a couple of blocks & have lunch. He took us to see his brother Darby & family. Everyone knew him and he knew everyone.
Lily, in those days, children were given wrist watches when they graduated 8th grade. Pop didn't know if he would still be around when we graduated; he gave Dad the money for our watches early.
Dad farmed Pop's place in Cantrall for awhile, but it was very time consuming, he had to drive tractors. etc from Pl Plains to Cantrall and of course, we didn't know about Dad's heart problems.
To his grandchildren, Michael was never called grampa. He was called Pop Conboy, 'Pop' in person. This is a written recollection from one of those grandkids, a daughter of Bill and Gladys(Hill) Conboy:
Below is not so much a profile, but just talking about Pop so you might know him better. He was the only grandparent I knew. While I saw Dad Hill growing up, I don't remember him ever holding a conversation with me. And of course, Clara, I saw her at 6 years old & agian at 18 so I never really had a grandmother. Dad's sister, Pearl, was just like Dad - what a lovely person she was.
As for Pop. Pop and Corinne had two very young children and on December 20, his second son, William John, was born; on December 24, he lost Coreena. He called his Mother to help, but she couldn't come because Michael, Pop's father, was dying. He lost his father on the same day of Corinne's demise. Imagine living through that with a newborn and 2 other children in 1901. He had to be a strong man.
He always tried to help anyone needing it. If you just mentioned something, he would try to make it happen, whether friend or family. His children were raised with a proud work ethic, great respect for thier father and family, all were soft spoken and all three remained exceptionally close all of their life.
He was the road commisioner and farmed both farms, owned and ran a saloon. Not much time for playing. He was just like Dad, very generous to everyone, very good to his family. He bought a home for his sister, Aunt Annie, she was single and helped raise Dad. He would have liked his sons to be bankers, so their lives would be easier than farming; they attended Brown's Business College in Springfield, but they both loved the soil and both farmed. Dad kept very good financial books, probably from learning this at college. (Had he been a banker, his physical life would have been easier and we might have had him longer).
I remember Pop driving from Cantrall to have Sunday dinner with us. He always brought 2 1/2 gallons of vanilla ice cream (I think he knew how much my Dad loved ice cream). He drove big black 4 door oldsmobiles and he drove fast. Joyce and I stayed with him at Cantrall for a few weeks in the summer.
He would drive fast and we would slide all over the back seat and loved it. He let us have the run of the upstairs, there were trunks with old stuff in them & papers from the college. He introduced us to neighborhood girls our age so we had friends to play with while staying with him. He took us to Johnny Curry's grocery store in Cantrall and we bought all of the penny candy we could eat. We would drive a couple of blocks & have lunch. He took us to see his brother Darby & family. Everyone knew him and he knew everyone.
Lily, in those days, children were given wrist watches when they graduated 8th grade. Pop didn't know if he would still be around when we graduated; he gave Dad the money for our watches early.
Dad farmed Pop's place in Cantrall for awhile, but it was very time consuming, he had to drive tractors. etc from Pl Plains to Cantrall and of course, we didn't know about Dad's heart problems.
