Commonwealth Network
This protege of Mary Pleasants was matched up with Senator William Sharon, who appreciated her talents as a mistress but was more than a little dismayed when she sued him for divorce on grounds of infidelity. Sharon fought the lawsuit to his dying day and his heirs picked up the struggle after his interment at Colma's Cypress Lawn Cemetery. Though Hill won her early legal battles, she and her attorney, David S. Terry, were unable to win the appeals. While waiting to collect her fortune, she married her attorney. Following Terry's death at the hands of a U.S. Marshal, she went insane. Her sanity hearing received almost as much press as her "divorce" case. Hill lost in the end and spent the rest of her life at the State Hospital in Stockton. Upon her death, a kind-hearted Terry relative saw to it that she was buried near the man who was her authentic husband.