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Billie Ruth Bilyeu Hill was born to Ples and Ova Goodpasture Bilyeu Friday, March 27, 1936, in Overton County, Tennessee, spending formative years in the Flat Creek community of Overton

Buried in the church columbarium February 17, 2021 By confessing the story of a racist gift, a Cincinnati congregation takes the first step in dismantling structural racism by Paul Seebeck | Presbyterian News Service CINCINNATI — The gift of $22,000, which after legal fees would be worth around $250,000 in today’s dollars, was given to Knox Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati exactly 100 years ago to aid the congregation in constructing a new church. But according to Knox’s pastor, the Rev. Adam Fronczek, there was “some lore” in the congregation about the gift, which c...

Redeeming a racist bequest December 10, 2020 Knox Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati takes a listen, learn and act approach to mitigate structural racism after it learns about the terms of a century-old gift that helped build the church by Mike Ferguson | Presbyterian News Service Leaders and members of Knox Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati have been working to end structural racism since learning a gift that helped construct the church a century ago was intended for white people only. (Mike Fitzer/180 Degrees) CINCINNATI — Ever since discovering  their church was built a century ago ...