Below is a newspaper "tid bit" I came across while at the Courthouse in Grove Hill, Alabama during the holidays. Larry E. Caver, Jr. The Clarke County (Ala.) Democrat, June 1, 1871: Col. Giles M. HILLYER, Past Grand Master of Masons of Sovereign Grand Inspector General of the Thirty-third degree for the State of Mississippi, died at Vicksburg on the evening of the 22nd ultimo.