28, 1872, after only six months in Liberia. Legacy The Clay Hill congregation remained in Arthington. Hill and Moore, run by Hill's nephews, became a major firm in Liberia and its success enabled the pair to endow a nearby Baptist institute. In Albion W. Tourgée's book, Bricks Without Straw (1880), the character of Eliab Hill was based in part on Elias Hill. The story of Elias Hill also inspired Katharine DuPre Lumpkin's novel Eli Hill, which was written in the 1950s and published in 2020 by University of Georgia Press. References 1819 births 1872 deaths African-American activists Activists for African-American civil rights American anti-lynching activists American emigrants to Liberia Victims of the Ku Klux Klan People from York County, South Carolina South Carolina Republicans Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina