GLENDALE, Ohio — A hilltop farm in Glendale was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Decades later, it was purchased by a granddaughter of William Procter, founder of Procter & Gamble Co. Coincidence?

When Lillian Sanford Procter died April 29 at Lake Worth, Fla., it came as a surprise to most Berkshirites, who had thought her long dead. But the surprise aspect was quite in keeping with Mrs.