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Hilliard, Edward (1851–1936) and Ida Louisa (Fleming) (1857–1945) SHIRLEY TARBURTON Edward and Ida Hilliard. Photo courtesy of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Archives. Hilliard, Edward (1851–1936) and Ida Louisa (Fleming) (1857–1945) SHIRLEY TARBURTON Shirley Tarburton, M.Litt. (Distinction) (University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia) retired in 2008 after 40 years teaching church-school (mainly high school but including eight years at university). An Australian, she has taught in four mission fields, Australia, and New Zealand. She has authored five books and co- authored one on church history, biography and family history, as well as several magazine articles. She is married to Dr. Michael Tarburton with two adult children and four grandchildren. Edward Hilliard was a pioneer Seventh-day Adventist missionary to the South Pacific region, who spent eighteen years in Tonga and Australia.1 Birth and Early Life Edward A. Hilliard was born April 3, 1851, in Madrid, St. Lawrence County, New York, in the United States of America. 2 He was the fifth of ten children born to Aaron Henderson Hilliard (1820-18753) and his wife, Lydia Ann Meyers (1825- 1883.)4 Their other children included Sidney E. (1847-1901), Cynthia (1847-1901), Layman (1850-died young), Seymour (1850-1921), Sarah Teresa (1853-1926), Aurilla (1857-1857), Orilla Phebe (1858-1904), Amy Jane (1858- 1943), and Emma (1859-died young).5 Hilliard’s early years were spent in the rural community of Buck’s Bridge near a number of other family members. In 1852, his parents became Sabbath-keeping Adventists and shared their new faith with other family members.6 His paternal grandmother was the sister of John Byington (later the first president of the Seventh-day Adventist General Conference). Byington became a Sabbath-keeper in 1852, (keeping his first Sabbath on March 20, 18527) as the result of Aaron Hilliard sharing copies of the Review and Herald with him.8 The following year, the first church school run by Sabbatarian Adventists (the name Seventh-day Adventist had not yet been adopted) opened in the Hilliards’ home, taught by Aaron Hilliard’s cousin, Martha Byington.9 The Buck’s Bridge Seventh-day Adventist church, thought to be the first building in the world built as an Adventist church, was affectionately called the “Red Church” and loomed large in Edward Hilliard’s childhood memories.10 When Edward Hilliard was eight years old, his father, who was a lay-preacher, moved their family to a farm in Otsego, Michigan, twenty-five miles (40 kilometers) from Battle Creek, Michigan.11 His parents had formed a friendship with Ellen and James White, and the Hilliard family stayed with them overnight in Battle Creek on their way.12 Subsequently, the Whites often stayed with the Hilliards, and it was on one of these visits on June 5, 1863, when Edward Hilliard was twelve, that Ellen White “received a vision known as the comprehensive health reform vision.”13 He also had vivid memories of another time about two years later when Ellen White experienced a vision in his parents’ home while they were closing the Sabbath with worship.14 Edward Hilliard’s parents were both dedicated Christians and he was raised in a spiritual atmosphere. His father became the leader of the Sabbath-keepers in Otsego, was a charter member of the church when it was organized in 1861, and served as head elder for the rest of his life.15 This environment fostered in Hilliard a love of Bible study and a strong faith in God which led him to dedicate his life to service for the Lord.16 Career For a number of years, Hilliard worked with his father on their farm. Sometime in his twenties, possibly after his father’s death in 1875, he spent a year as the assistant and travelling companion of the blind Adventist evangelist, Wolcott Littlejohn,17 as he travelled the country holding revival meetings.18 It was an experience that made a deep impression on him.19 Hilliard was baptized in 1882 at Battle Creek by Elder Isaac Van Horn20 following a weekend of fasting and prayer at the end of November.21 At the annual session of the Minnesota Conference held during the Minneapolis camp meeting in June 1883, Hilliard received a colporteur’s license and commenced what was to be fifty-three years of working for the Adventist Church.22 The first book he sold was Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation.23 During the next five years, this remained one of his favorite books to sell although he also sold others.24 In the Review and Herald of September 2, 1884, there appeared an article written by Edward Hilliard on “The Importance of Bible Study.”25 This was the first of approximately three hundred articles written by him that were published in various Adventist periodicals over the next fifty-two years, commonly appearing every couple of months until his last article, “Self-denial the First Essential in Soul-winning,” was published two months after his death.26 Marriage and Family On November 6, 1888, Hilliard married Ida Louisa Fleming in St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota.27 Ida Fleming was born May 10, 1857, in Mayville, Dodge County, Wisconsin, and was the eldest of the ten children of the family of Albert and Priscilla Moon Fleming (1835-1909, 1837-1920).28 Ida Fleming’s brothers and sisters were Calvin Albert (1858-1948), David Edward (1860-1929), Charles Adelbert (1863-1940), Julia Maranda (1865-1865), Lester Eugene (1866-1954), Hattie Mae (1868-1955), Walter (1869-1943), Ellsworth (1875-1936), unnamed (1877-1877), Byron Clark (1878-1879), and Minnie Mabel (1881-1980).29 When she was just a year old, her family moved to a farm near Garden City, about forty-five miles south west of Minneapolis, and here she spent her childhood.30 She trained as a teacher and was teaching school near her home when she joined the Adventist church.31 She added “Bible work” to her teaching, and in the course of her ministry, met Edward Hilliard, who was similarly engaged.32 Following their marriage, they both worked as Bible workers in Minnesota for a time. They also worked in Chicago, Illinois, and New Orleans, Louisiana.33 After five years of marriage, their only child, Alta May (married Herbert Christensen, 1893-1971)34 was born on February 10, 1893, in Duluth, Minnesota.35 Ordination and Service Overseas Four months after his daughter’s birth, at the summer camp-meeting in Minneapolis, Hilliard was ordained to the gospel ministry.36 Two years later, the family was chosen by the Foreign Mission Board37 to join the Pitcairn’s fourth missionary trip into the South Pacific.38 They sailed from San Francisco on May 1, 1895, and reached Pitcairn Island, the first port of call, after thirty-six days. From there, they headed for Tahiti, visiting several islands in the group, then to the Cook Islands, and on to Tonga.39 The Hilliards had no knowledge of where they were to minister until Friday, August 30.40 On arrival off Nukualofa, Tongatabu, the Hilliards were informed this was their destination and they were only given an hour or two to gather their belongings and disembark before the Pitcairn left the port.41 Tonga There were several traders and other businessmen from New Zealand living there with their families, and the Hilliards were able to obtain temporary accommodation. A “welcome to Nukualofa” gift of a joint of beef from one of the traders was diplomatically gifted to some Tongan neighbors and was reciprocated with a much-appreciated gift of a large yam.42 At the end of September,43 they were pleased to be able to move into a four-room cottage. In an endeavor to find a way to share the gospel while they were trying to learn the language, they decided that Ida Hilliard would draw on her experience of school-teaching and commence a school in their home for the traders’ children.44 Although a number promised to send their children, when the school opened on November 4, all except one had been enticed to send their children to a rival school that opened on the same day in a neighboring house. A second child attended the next day45 and the numbers gradually grew until twenty-eight children were attending a year later.46 As a result of the school, the Hilliards were asked to take one of the Tongan pupils into their home to facilitate his learning to speak English. This enabled them to learn Tongan, which they were finding difficult.47 Edward Hilliard, needing to find a way to earn some more income, engaged in carpentry and the money earned helped him to erect a simple school building that could accommodate more students.48 This school persisted49 and became the forerunner of Beulah College.50 Twelve months after their arrival, the Hilliards were joined by Edwin and Florence Butz, who conducted medical work, 51 and Sarah and Maria Young from Pitcairn, who provided great help.52 Then in September 1897, Dr. Merritt Kellogg and his wife, Eleanor, further augmented the missionary group.53 They were encouraged by the interest and attendance of the townspeople at Sabbath meetings, but found it fluctuated greatly.54 The school enjoyed heightened prestige when the Tongan king, George Tupou II, enrolled three of his nephews. As the school grew, Florence Butz became the second teacher.55 The Kingdom of Tonga was comprised of 170 islands spread in three general groups, but there was limited opportunity for the missionaries to expand their work beyond Tongatapu. While the Pitcairn was still in Tongan waters, Captain Graham took the Hilliards and Butzes 105 miles (170 kilometers) northward to the island of Haapai where they called at a trading station owned by William and Alice Palmer.
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