Juliette Hills was born in 1831 in Leominster, Massachusetts to Emerson and Susannah Hills. She married Asher A. D. Yeaw in 1853 and they had three children: William, Arthur and Catherine. Juliette’s speaking engagements began when her children were very young. Beginning in 1867, she was listed in the Banner of Light as a Spiritualist lecturer living in Northborough, Massachusetts. She spoke throughout the state and in Rhode Island for the next decade. Asher became employed in a comb shop around 1880 and they moved to Worchester, Massachusetts.
By 1879, Juliette was listed as a speaker at the Lake Pleasant camp meeting. She would continue lecturer for many camp meetings including Ocean Grove, Harwich Port, Sunapee Lake and Queen City Park during the 1880s. At the Mediums’ Camp-meeting of the Two Worlds, Spirit Voices, July 1885 wrote, “Mrs. Juliette Yeaw in the afternoon held a large audience spell-bound with the eloquence of the old veteran spirit-friend A.T. Foss, that controlled her. Her subject was, ‘Is Spiritualism True?’ and a finer discourse never came from mortal lips.” The Golden Gate, 17 November 1888, wrote about her lectures at Queen City Park. “Mrs. Yeaw is a lady possessed of superior natural talent, highly intuitive and inspirational, and carries with her that charm of perfect loveliness only presented by those who lead the higher life.”
In1894, Juliette was ordained and installed as pastor of the Independent Liberal Church at Greenwich. In 1899, she was a speaker at the Massachusetts State Association of Spiritualists 51st anniversary celebration. She was also a member of the Women’s Suffrage league, elected president in 1902.
The Banner of Light, 6 January 1906, asked people to write their plans for the New Year. Juliette wrote: “The gulf between the things which I would like to do in the New Year and the things I can do, does not prevent my bridging the chasm with good intentions, which admit of my saying, I would like to open the doors of Waverly House and see it fully equipped for the noble service for which it was designed.” She wanted to make sure that those who wanted to read spiritualistic papers could get them. She also wanted to help the Morris Pratt Institute, encourage struggling mediums, offer greater comfort to the bereaved, and make the New Year the best of her life.
In 1910, Asher was 81 and Juliette was 78. They were living at home with their daughter and one son. Juliette died in 1915 from heart disease at the age of 84. Asher survived her.