Rosebud’s Mose Hill honored by Texas House in 1997

In Memory of Mr. Mose Hill Sr., a graduate of Wilson White High School in Rosebud. He earned distinction as the first black police officer to serve Rosebud and rose through the department ranks to become a police deputy for seventeen years.

After graduating high school, Mr. Hill planned to attend Tuskegee University. Family plans had to be solved, therefore he had to find a job. His first public job was shoveling coal from one train caboose to another.

He always made time for his favorite pastimes: leading the community parades and carrying the country’s flag, attending and participating in rodeos.

Mr.Hill touched the lives of many. He was also regarded as a businessman and a rancher, an employee of the oil mill and Temple Auction Barn. He established a rendering business that served the people of Central Texas for thirty years.

Mr. Hill is sadly missed, being seated at the head place of the dinner table. After saying grace, he would start lecturing to Deborah and Kathy (his granddaughters), TaBorah Goffney (his great granddaughter) and L.J. Goffney (his great grandson) about “The importance of getting an education and making the right decisions in life”. (Robert Frost- “Two Roads”) He would often give them problems to solve. It would take them hours to solve. He would solve the problems without pen or paper.

The House of Representatives of the 75th Texas Legislature paid tribute to the life and times of Mr. Mose Hill Sr. and extended sincere sympathy to the members of his family on June 2, 1997.