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IT ALL STARTED AS A GIFT…

The 30-acre beautiful, wooded community we now cherish and call home was once the property of Mike and Lillian Shull, whose wills left it to their foster daughter, Lillian Muller Hulon.  

Lillian was born on October 1, 1901 in Lexington County to parents William Frederick Muller (1863-1943) and Mary Theresa Geiger Muller (1867-1915).  We can surmise that owing to her mother's death in 1915 when Lillian was just 13 or 14 years old, that her father was unable to care for his young daughter, whose siblings were older.  Mike and Lillian Shull must have taken her in and raised her as their own.  Lillian went on to marry Harvey Boyd Hulon, also a life-long resident of Lexington County.  They are shown together in the photo above.

In 1966, the Hulons donated 20 acres of land to build the Lexington County General Hospital, currently Lexington Medical Center.  The only provision in deeding over the land for the facility was that the old family home be moved to another site.  Mr. Hulon passed away in 1973.  

In 1975, Mrs. Hulon donated an additional 30 acres adjacent to the current hospital.  This was to become the community of Hulon Greene - taking the family name and adding the descriptive word, greene.  The word “greene” has Irish origins, meaning a grassy plot often used by villages as a common area or square.

In addition to the land donation, Mrs. Hulon also contributed to the furnishings of the hospital and was honored by having the Hulon Lobby named in her honor.  A portrait of her hangs there in tribute.  Mrs. Hulon was also a benefactor to local schools and churches.  She was a member of Emanuel Baptist Church in Cayce.  Mrs. Hulon died on August 5, 1976 at Lexington County General Hospital where she had made her home since its completion.  She and her late husband had no children.  She was survived by two sisters:  Annie Muller Gayden (1887-1980) and Wilhelmina (Mamie) Muller Fetner (1899-1995).

Lillian Muller Hulon is buried in Mount Hebron United Methodist Church Cemetery in West Columbia, beside her late husband.

(The information contained herein was obtained from the website, Find A Grave, and from the newspaper, The Columbia Record dated August 6, 1976.)