"He acquired his education in the public schools at Winchester, and left school at the age of sixteen to work for his father in the ice business. At the age of twenty-three he bought out the business and contained it at its old location for a year and then five years more in Winchester. He arranged a partnership with C.L. Robinson, who acquired a fourth interest. In 1916, after this profitable association had continued for eight years, he sold out altogether to Mr. Robinson and retired from that business. Mr. Hillyard then bought a farm adjacent to his father's old ice plant. This contained seventy-one acres, and on it he built his home and other buildings, and has used this land for a truck farm and orchard. He has developed a rather extensive and prosperous business, growing and marketing in Winchester spring vegetables, something of an experiment o nthe commercial scale. On his home place he planted two thousand fruit trees and is interested in another orchard of seven hundred apple trees. His first commercial crop of any importance came in 1920, when he picked 1,034 barrels. he shipped his fruit and has sent some of it to the English and Scotch markets. he is a member of the Frederick County Fruit Growers Association."

"He is interested in the Harloe Tire Company of Winchester, manufacturing a recently patented punctureless automobile tire."

"At Winchester, December 24, 1885, Mr. Hillyard married Miss Lucy E. Massie, who was born in Kernstown, Virginia, daughter of Thomas W. and Jennie (Whissen) Massie, whose other children were Charles, John, Robert, and William Massie. Mr. and Mrs. Hillyard have five children: Virgie J., wife of W. C. Plundeke, of Winchester; Ashby H.; Roy C.; Paul, a student in Winchester; Jane Louise, attending the Handley School of Winchester. The son Ashby was educated in Winchester High School, went with the Virginia troops to the Mexican border in 1916, and soon after his return and discharge, he registered for the world war, was trained at Camp Lee and in May, 1918, went overseas with Company L of the 318th Infantry, sailing from Hoboken on the transport Leviathan and landing in Brest. From there he went to Calais, where British supplies were picked up, and from there into the Artois sector. He took part in the St. Mihiel campaign and in the several days fighting in the Argonne. While he escaped wounds he contracted rheumatism through exposure in the trenches, and has been more or less a sufferer since he returned home. The son Roy, also associated with his father in the fruit business, went into the navy in 1917, and was trained at Norfolk until he wrenched his knee in a trench and was discharged for disability in 1918. Roy Hillyard married Miss Eva Brown , and they have a son, George."