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201	From the book, "The Memorial & Genealogical Record of SW Texas, Goodspeed Publishers, pub. 1894", p. 395; "In 1856 he married Miss Mary E. Harrison, daughter of Dr. R. P. Harrison, who moved to Texas from Kentucky in 1855."	Mary Elizabeth HARRISON
202	She is buried next to her husband and within the iron fenced enclosure around Hugh L. W. Hill and wife, Virginia Dearing. "Mary T. Dearing wife of Wm. L. S. Dearing March 18, 1799 Sept. 6, 1864 aged 65 yrs, 5 mo. 19 days"	Mary Terry HARRISON
203	She was the widow of George Harrison when she married Isaac in Warren Co., TN. Her maiden name is unknown. (MARRIAGE: Book A p 81, Warren Co., TN))	Mildred Douglas HARRISON
204	!LONG ISLAND TRAVLER GENEALOGY !VOL 1 PAGE 6 !VOL 5 PAGE 672 !VAIL FAMILY RECORDS	JOHN HAWKE
205		Ida Belle HEDGEPETH
206	!Charles Willianm Hild, 92, R.R. 51, died at 11:30 p.m. Sunday at Union Hospital. He is survived by one son Samuel, Yuma, Ariz.; one daughter, Mrs. Helen Adams, Terre Haute; two stepsons, Forrest and Clovis Rukes; one stepdaughter, Mrs. Gladys Noziff, Seelyville; several grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Burial will be in the Burnett cemetery. Friends may call after noon Tuesday. ( Terre Haute Tribune, Monday, Feb 17, 1969)	Charles William HILD
207	The weak link in this Hill line is the parentage of Isaac Hill, Sr. There were several Abraham Hills living in the same general area in NC at the same point in time. Plus some researchers feel Isaac's parents may instead be John Hill and Martha Whitmell who m. 1722. Definitive documentation needs to be found. Abraham Hill is often confused with the Abraham Hill(s) or Henry Hill(s) of Chowan Co., and Wake Co., NC. There is no known connection. There is also confusion about who Abraham married. Some researchers have an "unknown" and show five sons; Benjamin, Abraham, Isaac, Henry, and John. Others show a Judith Hinton and ten children; Isaac, Henry, John, Israel, Nathienel, William, Abraham, Theophilus, Sarah and Mary. More research is needed. The common son in both scenarios is Isaac Hill, Sr., b. 1748. Abraham and some of his family moved to St. Mary's, MD about 1745. (Prof. Mark Hill) On the 1790 census for Rowan Co., NC, the following six HILLs are shown living there at the same time: (Could these be all or some of the sons of Abraham? The elder Abraham was deceased by 1760 so the first name listed could not be him) The sixth column shows order of entry by the transcriber. It appears Abraham and Thomas had land next to each other. HILL, Abraham 4 1 3 0 0 1372 HILL, Isaac 1 2 3 0 0 1637 HILL, Jacob 1 0 1 0 0 373 HILL, James 1 5 3 0 0 1482 HILL, John 3 3 2 0 0 1901 HILL, Thomas 2 0 2 0 0 1371 census key: NAME -- Head of the household 1 -- Free white males of 16 years and upward, including heads of families 2 -- Free white males under 16 years 3 -- Free white females including heads of familes 4 -- All other free persons 5 -- Slaves	Abraham HILL
208	Allen Hill, born Nov. 27, 1792 in Bertie Co., NC married first, Anna Parham in 1811 in Jasper Co., GA. They had eleven children; Caroline, Lucinda, Milton, Elizabeth, Augustus, Hertentious, Ceylon S., Laurence, William (Adonis) Alonzo, Martha Adelaide, and Anna Alsena. Allen was a Baptist minister. He and his family moved from GA to the vacinity of Somerville, TN about 1816 and a year later to Maury Co., TN. His ministerial credentials were recorded in Maury Co., Nov. 20, 1819. He was pastor of the Baptist Church of Christ on Fountain Creek. In 1830 he was pastor of Pigeon Ford Creek Baptist Church in Giles Co. He officiated at numerous marriages there, and later in Laurence Co., TN when he lived on Weakly Creek. He was advised to go south for his health and in 1843 he moved to Monroe Co., MS. On May 3, 1843 he presented evidence to the court that he was a regular ordained minister of the Baptist Church and a certificate was issued authorizing him to solemnize the rites of matrimony in that state. In 1847 he was called to be pastor of the Baptist Church of Christ in New Hope, Chicasaw Co., MS. He and his family show up on the 1850 census. His reported profession at the time was clerk, and son Lawrence studied Law. His wife, Anna, died there about 1851. He married again, Hepsiba (sometimes found as Hepsinda) Prewitt Baily, and moved to Clark Co., AR soon after the marriage. His oldest son, Milton, and family had settled there before 1850. Allen and his wife Hepsiba show up on the 1860 & 1870 census for Clark Co., Ark. Rev. Allen Hill had an account, along with 225 other persons, with Doby and Paisley Mercantile located in the community. Allen is buried on his farm near Dobeyville; Hill Cemetery, two graves in the woods near the Stitt Home Place, Hwy. 53, junction Hwy. 10. One date of death is listed as 1874. The cemetery book for Clark Co. lists it as 1876. Hepsiba, his second wife, is buried there as well, although the date of her death is unreadable on her tombstone. Allen was said to have been a staunch Democrat. Allen was appointed Commissioner for Volunteer Families for Southfork Township, Clark Co., AR to oversee needy and destitute families during the Civil War. At least five are known to have survived to adulthood; Milton, Ceylon, Alonzo, Martha Adelaide who married a Mr. Williams (first name unknown), and Annie Alzena who married a Mr. Broach (first name unknown). Clark County Ark: A Genealogical Source Book Vol 1 Registration of Ministers Hill, Allen, (ministry) Credentials presented by Probate Court Monroe County, MS ( no church given) D-70 Clark County Ark: A Genealogical Source Book Vol 2 January Term 1857 Monday, Jan12, 1857 p. 464 Allen Hill presented petition praying court to grant him the privilege to change the road running from Terrenoir Post Office to Rome, where the same runs through his land Index to Circuit Court Records Clark County AR 1819-1878 HILL, Allen case #3047 Descendents of Ceylon still reside in Arkansas. (Harry Steven Hill, email: shill@inet-direct.com ; father Harry Mills Hill; grandfather Harry Ceylon Hill, ggrandfather Samuel Allen Hill, of Howard Co., AR). Updated info for Harry Steven Hill as of 11/13/1998; fax is 870-933-2191. My address is Steve Hill, 1602 Virginia, Jonesboro, Ar 72401. 6/24/99. Email from William C. Hill, Kilgore, TX. Email: txskeet@aol.com. "I believe I am a descendant of Isaac Hill. My great-grandfather was Augustus I. Hill born Jan 11, 1822 in Tennessee. He died March 15, 1880. His father was Allen G. Hill, born in 1794. He was a minister of the Primitive Baptist faith. This information comes from hand written family notes and is also written in a book "History of the State of Oklahoma" page 597. I have a copy of the page, but I don't know the publisher or the date of publication. However, the children of the Allen G. Hill listed in the history book do not match the children you have listed. Those in the book are "Horace, who died in Ardmore, Oklahoma; C.S. who passed away near Little Rock, AR; Augustus, who died in Lee Co. MS; Mrs. A.G. Nelson, who died in Mississippi; Mrs. Adalaide and Mr. Adaline, both of whom reside at Meridian, Mississippi." There are enough similarities to make me think the two Allen Hill's - yours and mine- are the same, but enough discrepancies to make me wonder. Do you have any additional information that would shed some light for me? Thank you." This email poses some questions that need to be resolved. How many children survived to adulthood? If Augustus, b. 1822, is the ancestor of Wm. Hill, then he certainly survived to adulthood. Also, is the 1792 or 1794 birthdate correct for Rev. Allen Hill? Only six are listed in Wm. Hill's email and not all names match the 11 I have listed. Are we even talking about the same Rev. Allen Hill or are the similarities merely coincidence? Additonal information on Rev. Allen Hill, wives and descendants was sent to me 10/18/99 courtesy of Steve and Janis Hill, email: sjhill@insolwwb.net. GenForum post 10/19/99 by Dana email: danahusk@cs.com "My great-great grandmother was Sallie Hill Marbury. She was born September 24, 1865. Her sister was Alice Hill Marbury (they married brothers). Alice was born July 18 1860. They were both buried in Shiloh Cemetary in Clark County Arkansas. I suspect they were descendents of Isaac, Allen, and Milton Hill. Can anyone make the connection." 5/12/02. Among documents sent to me by Robert Steele of Dallas, TX, RSteele185@aol.com, were the notes of Lucy Amanda Hill written in 1936 and found in TX State Archives, Austin, TX: "Allen Hill, son of Isaac Hill, Sr., was a Baptist minister, married Miss Annie Parham (sister of John J. Hill's wife) and born to them were seven children, all of whom have died, except perhaps Ceylon S. Hill who lived in Okalona, Arkansas, and two daughters living in Meridian, Mississippi, Mrs. Martha Adelaide Williams and Mrs. Annie Alzena Broach." The following letter was written Sept. 24, 1901 by Mrs. Annie A. Borach of Meridian, MS, to James Monroe Hill. "Dear Sir and Cousin, A few days since a friend handed me a Cincinnatti paper for perusal. When upon opening it how pleased I was to see your picture confronting me. For in a few moments I found you were my first cousin. Cousin Ben Harvey Hill of Georgia was my double first cousin, his parents and mine being brothers and sisters. My father, Allen Hill, a Baptist preacher. My mother was Miss Annie Parham, also of Georgia. Born to them were eleven children, all of whom have died except Ceylon S. Hill, now living in Okolona, Arkansas, and a sister older than myself. She is 68 years old. I am 63. Both of us widows. She has one son. I have no children. Her name is Martha Adelaide Williams. Mine is Annie Alzena Broach. Our mother having died while we were quite young, our father remarried in a short time and removed to Arkansas with his wife, (Note: this would be Hepsiba Bailey) a good woman, where he died several years since. So we have had no one to tell us of our Georgia relatives, as much as we desired to know. We are even ignorant of the first names of our grandparents. Sister thinks Grandfather Hill's name was Asa, but not sure. We would sometimes hear from Aunt Mary Turrentine, but since her death no one has written us. We feel entirely alone in this great big world, having no relatives near us. Will you kindly add to our pleasure by writing and telling us something of our Georgia kin? What was the name of Cousin Ben's father and mother? Also that of your parents? Did you know, or hear, of Aunt Mary Ann Tucker? I think was my mother's own aunt on her mother's side. She was a wealthy maiden lady. I guess you knew my uncle Anderson Parham? I knew him, he having removed to Lafayette City, this State, but finally moved to Louisiana. As soon as I saw your picture I was impressed with the striking resemblence to a brother of mine who died in Ardmore, Indian Terr. three years ago. Oh, how we have longed, all these long years, to hear some one tell us of our kin in Georgia. Anything you will be kind enough to write us will add joy to our hearts. Trusting we will hear from you soon, I am sincerely, Your cousin Mrs. Annie A. Broach 11th St. & 28th Ave. Meridian, Miss" *Note Sept. 29, 1901, James M. Hill did respond to her letter, outlining family details as he knew them. However, there is a note by Lucy Amanda Hill that says Annie was never heard from again. 5/13/02. Wrote William Hill (txskeet@aol.com) who last wrote me in 1999. I believe this letter from Annie Hill Broach clarifies some of our earlier questions. I believe William Hill is part of this Hill line through Augustus b. 1822, son of Rev. Allen Hill. My email was returned to me undeliverable. I have no mailing address in TX for Wm. Hill. 5/28/02. According to Paulette in NM (Gabgolly@aol.com) her ancestor, Frederick Francis Biggers Hill, lived next door to Rev. Allen Hill and wife Hepsinda, in the 1870 census in Clark Co., AR. She is trying to discover whether there was a relationship between the two familes. There was also a 13 yr. old boy b. AR living with Rev. Hill at that time by the name of Frederick Whitten listed as "farm hand". Was he related? Note: Further email over the past year leads me to believe these Hills are not related after all. I leave this in only for reference in the event something else surfaces. 1/24/2003. Email received from Richard Smith of Maury Co., TN. "I have an Allen Hill md to Mary Parham in my family line. They had a son named William Alonso Hill b. NOv. 1833 and d. Sept. 1883 in Maury County, TN.; Alonzo, as he was called, md. Mary Ann Faris Dugger in 1865-she died in 1924 and is buried in Giles Co., Tn. Do any of these names fit into your database of the Hill family. Richard Smith Maury Co., TN (I wrote back same day giving him what info. I have and asking for additional data. There is a slight name discrepancy for Annie Parham- he shows Mary Parham- but it is possible she was named Mary Ann. Per the letter written in 1901 by her daughter, she refers to her mother as "Annie Parham".) 2/13/2003 1840 census for Laurence Co., TN, page 23, shows Allen Hill as Head of Household with: 2 males from 5 thru 9 (William Alonzo, and ?} 2 males 10 thru 15 (Ceylon and Lawrence) 1 male 16 thru 19 (Hertentious) 1 male 40 thru 49 (Allen) 2 females 5 thru 9 (Martha Adelaide and Annie Alzena) 1 female 40 thu 49 ( Annie, wife) The older children would have been on their own by 1840, but I can't account for one missing male child in the 5-9 age group) Feb. 12, 2003. Rec'd scan of 1823 Tax List for Maury Co., TN from Richard Smith, that shows Allen Hill on the listing. Oct. 27, 2003. Rec'd info. from descendant John O. Bronson, JBron10544@aol.com. "Allen was in a Giles County, TN Tax List of 1836, 15th District which is adjacent to the Maury County line. He had 7 slaves. No real estate noted, but with 7 slaves one had to be raising something somewhere. Probably cotton but may be tobacco."	Allen HILL, Reverend
209	From: White7sand@aol.com 2/24/2001 (descendant John Paul Hill of Ft. Worth, TX) "My name is John Paul Hill. I am a decendent of Allen Crawford Hill (A.C.) who was the brother of U.S. Senator Benjamin Harvey Hill and William Pinckney Hill of Troup Co. Ga. Their father was John J. Hill and Sarah Parham Hill of Troup Co. Ga. Benj. Harvey Hill was born in 1823. William Pinckney Hill came to Texas in the late 1830's and was mayor or Bastrop, Texas for a few months in 1839. He was chosen by Jefferson Davis to be Chief Justice of the Confederate Supreme which never was created. He was then urged to run for Governor of Texas and was being considered to be the Supreme Court Chief Justice but declined to run for both positions. .My great, great, great grandfather Allen Crawford Hill or A. C. Hill....is buried in Wise Co. Texas in the Aurora, TX cemetery. He was an attorney and a very good one and his son John Pinckney Hill was born in Homer, Louisiana in 1851. Allen C. Hill was know locally as Col. Hill and was a cotton buyer and attorney. I have no idea who his wife was or if he had any more children other than John Pinckney Hill whose wife's name was Merah Kinnebrew and had six children, my grandfather, William Allen Hill was one of their children. Any information about how he became a Col., records of his marriage, children, would be most helpful" email from John Hill 3/27/01. I am going to send you some actual photos of my Hill Clan and I even have a photo of Allen Crawford Hill as a cotton buyer in Aurora, TX. John Pinckney Hill my great grandfather and his wife Merah Kinnebrew lived in Aurora in 1889 when there was an outbreak of rocky mountain spotted fever caused by ticks. John Pinckney ran the livery stable and he would go around town and pick up the bodies of those who had died from the fever...and Merah would sit up with the families. Amazingly neither of them caught the fever somehow. Aurora at the time had 6 cotton gins, a newspaper, a number of doctors, and a population of 10 to 20,000. I went down to Homer, LA which is northeast of Shreveport. Most of the town was run by the Kinnebrew family. Alabama or "Bama" Kinnebrew was the owner of the Kinnebrew plantation and had numerous slaves as late as 1922." Subsequent email from John Hill. "I would like to send you photo copies of some photos of the Hills here in North Central Texas. One photo of the family of John Pinckney Hill, son of Allen Crawford Hill, and his entire family standing on their front porch. Some of the children are grown men and Merah, "Uncle Johnny's" is sitting in a child with her younger children on her lap. One photo shows A. C. Hill as part of a group shot in a cotton yard in Aurora, TX. where he is buried along side John Pinckney Hill and Merah Kinnebrew Hill. Their monument is very beautiful, it is a white marble with diagonal dark gray streaks running through it and A. C. Hill's is a small Obelik marker with a point on the top. There is a grave next to A.C. Hill which is the grave of a male about 10 yrs. of age at the time of his death. What I have heard about A. C. Hill was that he was very bright and from an eye witness to his death who was a boy of 11 at the time, Oscar Lowry, who said that A.C. was laying on his death bed propped up on a pillow looking out the window as the sun was setting and just as the sun set Col. A. C. Hill closed his eyes and was quietly slipped away into eternity. My father, Paul Thurmond Hill, born September 13, 1913 in Rhome, TX to William Allen Hill, said his brother James McAfee Hill went down to see the Kinnebrews in Homer, Louisiana, and when they arrived at the home of Alabama Kinnebrew there were African Americans who dusted off his clothes, his shoes, .and in general were waiting on everyone making the visit. One was fanning "Bama" by pulling a rope which in turn moved a fan in the ceiling. In short, this was still a hold over from slavery as late as 1922. John Pinckney Hill, my great grandfather, son of A. C. Hill had one blue eye and one brown eye. He walked with a limp and had a "gimpy" leg. He worked in a lumber yard, the train depot at Newark, TX just 3 miles south of Rhome, TX. I know very little about him other than he married a very pretty daughter of Uncle Bama who bore him a lot of children. I have no idea other than he probably was a cotton farmer. John P. Hill 6767 Winifred Dr. Fort Worth, TX 76133" 4/25/00. From the book written by Benj. H. Hill, Jr., in 1891, "The Life of Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia, His Life, Speeches and Writings, p. 13 of the book. In writing of his father's siblings, B. H. Hill, Jr., wrote in part the following; "The other brothers were all farmers and men of character and local influence. Only one survives, Allen, now living in Arkansas, who is the youngest of the brothers. His three sisters married Georgia farmers and all died before their brother. Indeed, the family was not a long-lived family, only two reached the age of sixty." This tells us that Allen Crawford was living in Arkansas at the time the book was written in 1891, (published in 1893). From 4/29/01 email from descendant John Paul Hill of Ft. Worth, TX. "He (Allen) died in 1894 at age 69 which would have him born in Hillsboro, Georgia about 1825. His death occurred in 1894 at Aurora TX about 35 miles west northwest of Dallas. I know he was a fine attorney and that before coming to Aurora, TX he lived in Homer, Louisiana where his wife (name unknown) gave birth to John Pinckney Hill in October of 1851." 5/6/01 email from John Paul Hill. "Allen Crawford Hill was known as 'Col. Hill'...he was said to be able to read Latin and write it...it is said he was a very fine attorney, but he did drink to some extent, and if it was on your court day it was not good. As far as I know I think he may have settled somewhere in Southern Arkansas and may have drifted over to Homer, LA. I corresponded with a John Riley Malone about 40 yrs. ago who gave me a lot of information on the Kinnebrews, but I went to Homer with my parents and were told the courthouse burned and no records were available further back than 1895. Mr. Malone did find an Allen Hill who signed some wills in Homer as an attorney. ...He (Allen) died in 1894 at age 69. ...His only child (as far as I know) John Pinckney Hill was born October 1851 to Mirah Kennebrew, dau. of Alabama Kinnebrew, who had two brothers, Jack and Talmage. I think Allen Crawford may have stopped near El Dorado, AR before going over to Homer, LA where he fell in love with the mother of John Pinckney Hill." 5/11/2001. "Claiborne Rebels, La. Mil. Capt. Allen C. Hill, Ind." (Volume I , Pages 3-20.......Introduction, Battles & Units Compiled by Andrew B. Booth, Commissioner Louisiana Military Records, 1920) ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/military/civilwar/booth/aaintro.txt	Allen Crawford HILL
210	There is an Andrew J. Hill in a family GEDCOM online who married an Eliza Jane Cagle in Warren Co., TN in 1832. I believe this is Andrew Jackson Hill. There is also mention of an Indian Massacre in TX by the Kickapoo Indians of a surveying party of 21 (in 1838) which included the brother of Dr. Geo. W. Hill of Navarro Co., TX. I believe this may have been Andrew who was killed. Further research needed. Marriage is shown by some to be in Weakly Co., TN rather than Warren Co. Need to check this out.	Andrew Jackson HILL
211	Known to have lived in Meridian, MS. (per notes of Lucy Amanda Hill written in 1936 and found in TX State Archives, Austin, TX) The following is a letter dated Sept. 24, 1901 written by Mrs. Annie Hill Broach of Meridian, MS, to James Monroe Hill in Austin, TX. It provided me with some new names and places I did not have in my data base before. Sent to me by Robert Steele of Dallas, TX, copied from the Texas State Archives. "Meridian, Miss. Sept. 24, 1901 Mr. James Monroe Hill, Dear Sir and Cousin, A few days since a friend handed me a Cincinnati paper for perusal. When upon opening it how pleased was I to see your picture confronting me. For in a few moments I found you were my first cousin. Cousin Ben Harvey Hill of Georgia was my double first cousin, his parents and mine being brothers and sisters. My father was Allen Hill, a Baptist preacher. My mother was Miss Annie Parham, also of Georgia. Born to them were eleven children, all of whom have died except Ceylon S. Hill, now living in Okolona, Arkansas, and a sister older than myself. She is 68 years old. I am 63. Both of us widows. She has one son. I have no children. Her name is Martha Adelaide Williams. Mine is Annie Alzena Broach. Our mother having died while we were quite young, our father remarried in a short time and removed to Arkansas with his wife, a good woman, where he died several years since. So we have had no one to tell us of our Georgia relatives, as much as we desired to know. We are even ignorant of the first names of our grandparents. Sister thinks Grandfather Hill's name was Asa, but not sure. We would sometimes hear from Aunt Mary Turrentine, but since her death no one has written us. We feel entirely alone in this great big world, having no relatives near us. Will you kindly add to our pleasure by writing and telling us something of our Georgia kin? What was the name of Cousin Ben's father and mother? Also that of your parents? Did you know, or hear, of Aunt Mary Ann Tucker? I think she was my mother's own aunt on her mother's side. She was a wealthy maiden lady. I guess you knew my uncle Anderson Parham? I knew him, he having moved to Lafayette City, this State, but finally moved to Louisiana. As soon as I saw your picture I was impressed with the striking resemblence to a brother of mine who died in Ardmore, Indian Terr. three years ago. Oh, how we have longed, all these long years, to hear some one tell us of our kin in Georgia. Anything you will be kind enough to write us will add joy to our hearts. Trusting we will hear from you soon, I am sincerely, Your cousin (Mrs.) Annie A. Broach 11th St. & 28th Ave. Meridian, Miss. ------------------------------------------------------------------ James Madison Hill did respond just days later on Sept. 29, 1901. However, in the 1936 notes of Lucy Amanda Hill Jones, she states they never again heard from Annie.	Annie Alzena HILL
212	Asa married his grandfather's (Isaac Sr.) step-daughter, Louvisa Hill, daughter by Wm. Hill, his grandfather's second wife. Technically that made Louvisa his step-aunt as well as his wife. The 1827 Jasper County, GA Land Lottery registration list shows the name of an Asa Hill with two draws in the Shropshire District. Two draws indicated a white male over age 18 with a wife and/or a legitimate male child. Since Louvisa was born in Jasper Co., GA, this may indicate where they were living in 1827 prior to moving to TN. From the book, "Tennessee Tidbits, 1778-1914", Vol. III, Ram Press. "As shown in several law suits is said to have absconded from the county in January 1846. He took with him a large drove of stalled cattle and a large amount of money, and has never returned. He has never communicated with his family or friends during his absence. The Court is satisfied that he left the state without any intention of ever coming back. His land and negroes were sold to satisfy the several debts, including the tract of land where his family now lives. There were several suits, the first on 23 March 1847. Asa Hill had been guardian of the heirs of Russell Rogers." (Warren Co., TN, Ch Ct. Min. 1/17, 20, 67, 92) Where did Asa go after "absconding" with the cattle and deserting his family in TN? This is one of the family mysteries. He likely moved to another state, probably married again and started another family. In frequent postings online I have asked if anyone has an Asa (if he kept his name) with a mysterious background that seems to start after 1846. One researcher has responded: Pam Bethune on April 23, 1998 at 13:11:08: "I'm looking for information on ASA HILL. He was born around 1810 and was living in GA in 1830. He married. Phoebe Taylor in 1851 and purchased land in IL in 1857. Children included: Asa 1856, Mary Ellen 1852, and Benjamin Franklin abt 1858. Asa died around 1864 in Perry Co. IL. " She went on to say that according to family, he had always been very secretive about his life before moving to Southern IL about 1850, and the family always wondered if he had left another family elsewhere. Could this be our Asa? (pbeth26@aol.com)	Asa HILL
213	Note: Asa Hill is often confused with a cousin named Abraham Webb Hill. According to direct descendants, Joe Blanton and Marie Brady Hunter who had personal knowledge of this family, Asa was never named anything but "Asa." There was an erroneous article written in 1932 in the book, "Heroes of San Jacinto", where Asa was referred to incorrectly as Abraham Asa Webb Hill. Subsequent researchers have picked up the error and perpetuated it in other publications. In Vol. III of "The Handbook of Texas", Vol. III, page 392, there is a correction written by Luther Henry Hill. Also, per a letter from Marie Brady Hunter, direct descendant still living in Dallas in 1998 at age 94, "...Abraham Webb was a cousin of Asa's who lived at Bastrop and for some reason was confused even in the early Texas histories with our Asa Hill. The first time I went down that way I first went to Bastrop. Soon discovered Abraham Webb Hill was not mine, from the cemetery there." This family information below is said, by Robert Hill, to be from the Bible of Isaac Lafayette Hill, once owned by daughter Lollie Hill of San Marcos, and written in Isaac Lafayette's own hand. "Asa" and Elizabeth were married on Oct. 3, 1811 per Robert Hill data. Other data on their marriage is referenced in: Marriages of Hancock County, Georgia, 1806-1850, by Martha Lou Houston (originally published 1947 reprinted 1995 by Genealogical Publishing Co.) Library of Congress # 76-39658 International Standard Book # 0-8063-0749-8, page # 30, Asa HILL and Elizabeth BARKSDALE, m. Oct. 6, 1808. If the 1808 data is correct, Elizabeth would have been 13 yrs old; if Robert Hill data correct she would have been 16. Asa shows up in Putnam Co., GA in the 1820 Census in the Capt. John Kendrick District. He was there from at least 1814 as his third child, Wm. Carroll. A. J. Hill was born in Putnam Co. Later he and his family moved to Columbus, GA where their son, John C. C. Hill was born, the first white child to be born in Columbus. He also lived before 1834 in Muscogee Co., GA and then went to TX in 1834 taking one of his sons, William Carroll Andrew Jackson Hill, and a nephew, Isaac Lafayette Hill with him, where they selected a place for settlement in Stephen F. Austin's colony near Gay Hill, TX. He returned to GA for his family and made the long, perilous journey back, traveling from Columbus, GA by way of steamboat, down the Chattahoochee River to the port of Appalachicola, where the passengers embarked on a schooner for New Orleans, by way of Mobile, AL. At New Orleans they boarded a sailing ship, and after eighteen days voyage across the Gulf of Mexico they reached the little port of Matagorda, TX on Matagorda Bay. They traveled from there by oxcart to San Felipe, TX then the seat of the Provisional Government, and on to Gay Hill, which took another seven days. In the Spring of 1836, Asa and his son Wm. Carroll Andrew Jackson Hill, joined an expedition for the relief of the garrison at the Alamo, but were unable to reach it before the Alamo fell to Santa Ana. They witnessed the burning of Gonzales. Upon returning home, Asa, his son, James Monroe Hill, and seven others started out in search of Gen. Sam Houston, who had been empowered to raise an army of defense after TX declared independence from Mexico March 2, 1836. When they made contact with a detachment of his army near Columbus, TX, James Monroe joined Capt. W. W. Hill's Company, but Asa proceeded down the Colorado River to report to General Houston. There, he was sent by the General to warn families in the colony west of the Brazos River of the approaching Mexican Army. This assignment kept Asa from actually fighting in the Battle of San Jacinto, but his son, James Monroe, fought bravely in this battle. During the battle, James Monroe captured a little Mexican fifer boy, Joseph Mendez. After giving him the choice of returning to Mexico, Asa Hill, Sr., took him into his home and educated him with his own children. Jose Maria Mendez attended Ruttersville School as per the Southwestern Historical Quarterly. He became a silversmith and died of yellow fever in Harris County Texas in the 1840's. (Asa Hill, according to Service Record No. 697, served in Captain Karnes' Company until April 12, 1836, when he was permitted to join Captain G. McGehee's ranger company, stationed at Round Top, as a substitute for M M Hill.) Asa went to Fayette Co., TX and lived in the Round Top and Rutersville areas, and had a tavern named Asa Hill Tavern which he sold to Sarah McGehee in 1842. He and his family settled near Gay Hill, TX. He is shown on the first tax rolls of Washington County in 1837 and in 1838. Asa and two of his sons, John C. C. Hill, and Jeffrey Barksdale Hill, were part of the ill-fated Mier Expedition of 1842. After being captured by the Mexicans, escaping and being captured again, Asa was one of the men who took part in the "black bean episode", drawing a white bean and thus being spared execution. He was a prisoner until finally released in 1843, along with his wounded older son, Jeffrey, through his youngest son's intervention with Santa Ana who had adopted the young 14 yr. old John C. C. Hill. Asa was much weakened by the experience and did not live long after his release, dying July 18, 1844. He was originally buried in Cedar Creek, TX, on his son's property , (Dr. Green Washington Hill), but his remains and his son's were reinterred in Old Cemetery in LaGrange, TX in 1975. An historical marker is in place at his original burial site. The marker in the LaGrange Cemetery reads: "Asa Hill c. 1784 - c. 1845 Veteran of the Texas Revolutionary Army and the Battle of Mier His son Dr. Green Washington Hill May 27, 1812 - Sept. 20, 1844 Remains removed in 1975 from family plot beside Cedar Creek in lake site and reburied here." Some information from the New Handbook of Texas Online; http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/cgi-bin/web_fetch_doc?dataset=tsha.dst&db=handbook&doc_id=13703&query=Asa+Hill BIBLIOGRAPHY: Claude W. Dooley, comp., Why Stop? (Odessa: Lone Star Legends, 1978; 2d ed., with Betty Dooley and the Texas Historical Commission, Houston: Lone Star, 1985). Fort Worth Star-Telegram, February 24, 1974. George Alfred Hill, The Hill Family of Fayetteville, Typical Texians: An address delivered at Fayetteville, Texas, December 9, 1939 (Houston?, 1936?). Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin. Rachel Jenkins ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- June 11, 2003 Rec'd this email: From: "David Zapalac" To: Subject: Asa Hill Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 08:11:12 -0500 Hi: My name is David Zapalac and I was reading the history on Asa Hill (Hill family graves in Texas). Prior to the Asa Hills' original grave site being flooded, the property was owned by my parents, Alfred J. and Bernice (Schmidt) Zapalac. My mom inherited the property from her parents , Walter and Blance Schmidt, in the 50's. The picture of the grave site brings back memories as I can remember it very well, beneath a large live oak, just a few yards south of Cedar Creek. There was also two other grave sites in close proximity to the Hill grave, believed to possibly be some servants of the Hill family. Once again, I enjoyed reading you research! D Zapalac ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: "David Zapalac" To: "Jackie Hill" Subject: Re: Asa Hill Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:36:45 -0500 Jackie: I do remember when the lake was being built, all of the graves that were going to be flooded had to be re-located. That would have been in 1975or 1976. I was in college at the time, but I know that there were at least two additional graves right next to Asa's that were re-located to the southeast side of the lake. I am sure that there are records at the Fayette County courthouse that list all graves re-located and when possible who occupied them. My mom is 79, but has a great memory. She said she was a little girl when her mom and dad bought the place -- probably around 1930. Just a short distance from the site - down the creek - was an old home, one that Asa probably lived in at one time. It still had the old water well that had the wheel for the rope to draw water. I wish that I would have had the ability to video some of those sites -- technology was just a little late and I never thought to take pictures. Thanks for your time. By the way -- Kathy Carter at the Fayette Library, has done some research on Asa Hill. The local Anchor Club does a cemetery tour each fall and Asa's life is one of those featured in the tour. If you want I could get her # for you. D Zapalac ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From : David Zapalac Sent : Thursday, June 12, 2003 8:36 AM To : "Jackie Hill" Subject : Re: Asa Hill Jackie: Kathy Carter is the person who did the research. I am sure she would be happy to visit with you. You can reach her at 979-968-6418. That is the # for the Fayette Heritage Museum and Archives. He home number is 979-968-3644. I will get you an e-mail and forward it to you. DZ ( Kathy Carter's e-mail is library@fais.net) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- January 8, 2004 Made a day trip to Columbus, Muscogee Co., GA to research Asa during the six years he was there from the town's inception in 1828 until he moved his family to Texas in 1835. At the Columbus Court House records dept. the earliest deeds and land transactions they have are from 1828. The old courthouse had burned several times over the last 150 years so many of the oldest records have been lost. I was able to find one land transfer from Asa Hill to Sowell Woolfolk dated May 12, 1828 where he sold 202 1/2 acres to Mr. Woolfolk for the sum of $75. In a book of very old newspaper clippings at the Brantley Library later in the day, I found a couple of references to Asa. From the "Columbus, GA Newspaper Clippings of the Columbus Enquirer, Muscogee Co., GA" Vol I., pg. 2, Sat. May 29, 1828 "Sheriff's Sale Georgia, Muscogee Co; Sherfiff Sales On the first Tuesday in July next, will be sold at the courthouse in the town of Columbus, within the usual hours of sale, the following property, to wit: one negro girl... levied on as the property of Asa Hill, to satisfy execution of "fi feas" in favor of William C. Osborn vs. Asa Hill, and on execution in favor of Benjamin Tarver vs. William S. Maxwell and Asa Hill." From Vol. II, pg. 1, Sat. Jan. 3, 1835 "List of Acts of the Georgia Legislature" What follows is a list of enactments for a variety of things, including, "For the relief of Asa Hill". It appears Asa was having financial problems from the outset of his move to Columbus, having to sell acreage and a slave the first year he was there in order to raise cash to settle debts. By 1835 he was gone to Texas where he redeemed himself and, with his sons, made his mark in Texas history.	Asa HILL
214	Asa C. and Mary Chapman had two sons. He signed his letter with his initials "A.C." but was often referred to as "Colley". His middle name is often written as Collingsworth. (The following is from the New Handbook of TX, Vol 3, published 1996 by the Texas State Historical Association) (Also found online in its entirety) "Asa was born in Jasper co., GA and brought to TX by his family in 1835. He attended Rutersville College and after Sam Houston became U. S. Senator in 1846, Asa served as Houston's amanuensis in Washington. He enlisted Sept. 20, 1847 in the Mexican War, in Capt. John Allen Veatch's company; Col. Peter Hansborough Bell's regiment, TX Mounted Volunteers. Asa was Dr. Work's hospital steward in Presidio de Rio Grande, Coahuila, Mexico, before commanding a spy company in the battle of Piedra Pinta. He was mustered out of service Sept. 20, 1848. He volunteered with the rank of Lt. in 1856 in Gen. Wm. Walker's Nicaraguan army. After recruiting men and raising money in the U.S. he sailed from New Orleans to Punta Arenas Jan. 4, 1857, where he assumed duties of adjutant to Col. Samuel A. Lockridge. On the retreat down the San Juan River, Hill was wounded when the boiler of the steamer, J. N. Scott, blew up. In 1859 he was Captain of the Texas Rangers. He continued his work as Captain of Spies, sending important information to Houston. Later he became crippled by osteomylitis and was limited to horseback duty, but he volunteered as a civilian guide early in the Civil War. The captain of the company, claiming he was a soldier, brought charges of insubordination against him and he was convicted in a court martial in Oct. 1861. He was imprisoned for six months before being vindicated. He was in Mexico with his brother, John C. C. Hill, in 1866 and 1867. From 1870 - 73 Asa progressed from first lieutenant to colonel in the Frontier Forces and Texas State Police. He was wounded five times in his career. His brother, John C.C. Hill worked as a civil engineer in railroad building as well as mining. A. C. Hill worked with him on some of these rail projects between 1876 and 1884 in Mexico. Several letters are transcribed between the two brothers in the book by Robert M. Bartlett, "Those Valiant Texans; A Breed Apart," pub. 1989. pp. 171-172. A. C. Hill wrote from Oakville, Liveoak Co., TX on Nov. 21, 1880. Another letter was dated June 7, 1886 from Eagle Pass, Maverick Co., TX on the border of Mexico to his brother-in-law, Gen. Wm. G. Webb in Albany, Shackford Co., TX. Found on 1880 Texas census at Ancestry.com: ASA C. HILL State: TX County: Live Oak County Township: Oakville Year: 1880 Record Type: Federal Population Schedule Page: 456 Database: TX 1880 Federal Census Index He died in Beeville, TX and was buried on the ranch of his son, Judge William Asa Hill, near Clareville." There is a slight variation in his biography from the more recent New Texas Handbook Online: "HILL, ASA COLLINSWORTH (1826-1913). Asa Collinsworth (Colley) Hill, soldier, filibuster, and ranger, son of Elizabeth (Barksdale) and Asa Hill, was born near Hillsboro, Jasper County, Georgia, in November 1826. He was brought to Texas in 1835 by his father. He attended Rutersville College. After Sam Houston became United States senator in 1846, Hill served as Houston's amanuensis in Washington. In the Mexican War he enlisted on September 20, 1847, in Capt. John Allen Veatch's company, Col. Peter Hansborough Bell'sqv regiment, Texas Mounted Volunteers. Hill was Dr. Work's hospital steward in Presidio de Rio Grande, Coahuila, Mexico, before commanding a spy company in the battle of Piedra Pinta. He was mustered out of the service on September 20, 1848. He married Mary Chapman on October 3, 1849, in Rutersville; they had two sons. In 1856 he volunteered with the rank of lieutenant in Gen. William Walker's Nicaraguan army. After recruiting men and raising money in the United States, he sailed from New Orleans and arrived in Punta Arenas on January 4, 1857, where he assumed the duties of adjutant to Col. Samuel A. Lockridge. On the retreat down the San Juan River after the unsuccessful assault on Fort Castillo, Hill was wounded when the boiler of the steamer J. N. Scott blew up. In 1859 he was a captain in the Texas Rangers. The first official information Houston received of the forays of Juan N. Cortina was a letter from Capt. William Gerard Tobin dated Brownsville, December 16, 1859, brought to Houston by Hill, who was in several engagements including that at Bolsa Bend. His last report to Houston was from Brownsville on February 9, 1860, signed A. C. Hill, Captain of Spies. Crippled by osteomylitis and limited to horseback duty, he volunteered as a civilian guide early in the Civil War. The captain of the company to which he was attached, claiming he was a soldier, brought charges of insubordination against him and he was convicted in a court martial in October 1861. He was imprisoned for six months before being vindicated. Hill later wrote that he was imprisoned because of his "adherence to the cause of the Union" but there was no hint of treason or sedition in his lengthy trial. He was in Mexico in 1866 and again in 1867 and was with his brother, John C. C. Hill, when the latter obtained the release from prison of Gen. Pedro de Ampudia who was under sentence of death for allegedly siding with Maximilian. From 1870 to 1873 Asa Hill progressed from first lieutenant to colonel in the Frontier Forces and Texas State Policeqv with much of his duty in areas of Indian raids. During his career he was wounded five times. In 1889 while living in Washington, he participated in the George Washington Centenary ceremonies in New York City as a member of the District of Columbia National Guard. From 1904 to 1907 he traveled about Texas gathering data for a history of Texas that he never completed. He died on October 9, 1913, in Beeville and was buried on the ranch of his son, Judge William Asa Hill, near Clareville." BIBLIOGRAPHY: Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin. Joseph E. Blanton Found on Ancestry.com, Texas Land Patents for Asa Hill in 1856 and 1857. Is this "our" Asa? Grantee: Asa Hill Certificate: 354 Patentee: Asa Hill Patent Date: 13 May 1856 Acres: 2921.88 District: Fannin County: Wise File: 563 Patent #: 481 Patent Volume: 11 Class: Fan. 1st. Grantee: Asa Hill Certificate: 354 Patentee: Asa Hill Patent Date: 16 Dec 1857 Acres: 1685.63 District: Fannin County: Wise File: 563 Patent #: 876 Patent Volume: 12 Class: Fan. 1st.	Asa Collinsworth "Colley" HILL
215	June 9, 2002. A signed guestbook entry on my gen web site from Marjorie Hill Norris; "I have had a rather difficult time finding the children of Allen Hill, so I was totally delighted when I found them on your site. His son, Augustus, fathered Augustus Israel, who fathered Selon, who fathered Ernest, who fathered Lavert, who decided to break the male dominance and had me (lol). Wonderful site. Very insightful." Norris@notme.com Tupelo, MS I have written her to ask for more information.	Augustus HILL
216	The Register for Confederate POW's Buried in Northern Cemeteries, lists a B. F. Hill, rank of Private, Company E, Regiment 24 Tex. Cav. Date of death is listed as 4/19/1863. He is buried in the Alton, IL cemetery.	Benjamin F. HILL
217	Benjamin Harvey Hill was the seventh of nine children born to John J. Hill and Sarah Parham in Jasper Co., GA. When he was ten years old his family moved to the just opened Indian lands in Troup Co., GA where his father built a large two story home that is still in use today in Long Cane. There is a historic marker in front of the house denoting it as the boyhood home of the Senator. Ben attended the University of GA through the sacrifices of his family, including an elderly Great Aunt, (aunt of his mother Sarah Parham) who lived on their property in a small house. He graduated in 1844 at the age of 21 with valedictory honors, and was admitted to the bar that same year. He soon gained a reputation for success that made him a wealthy man. He had met and wooed Caroline Holt during his college years in Athens, GA. She was the socialite daughter of a prominent Athens family. He opened his law practice in LaGrange, GA, building a beautiful Greek revival style mansion on a 1200 acre plantation he called "Bellevue." He was a slave owner for about twenty years. Today Bellevue is beautifully restored and open for tours in LaGrange, GA. Owned land in Baker Co. After six yrs. of private practice he was elected to the state House of Representatives in 1851. He was devoted to the South and the Union, and therefore encouraged Georgians to accept compromise. Although he did not favor war, once the South seceded from the Union, he supported Jefferson Davis completely. Sen. Hill was a signer of the Ordinance of Secesion. He helped formalize the new Confederate government and in November 1861 was elected a Confederate senator and served for the remainder of the war. He was considered Jefferson Davis' right-hand man and was dubbed "Hill, the faithful" by Jeff Davis himself. After the war, Ben was arrested along with many other Southern leaders and spent three months in a New York jail. When President Johnson pardoned him, he returned to LaGrange, GA. He spoke out passionately against Radical Reconstruction and in the summer of 1867 made a series of speeches in Atlanta, the most famous being the Davis House speech of July 16, 1867, denouncing the Reconstruction Acts of 1867. His courage and eloquence enhanced his regional fame and won him national recognition. In 1875 he was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives where he quickly won a reputation as a spokesman for the South. He was elected to the U.S. Senate on Jan. 26, 1877. His career was cut short when he contracted cancer of the tongue and died in agony on August 16, 1882. He is buried in Atlanta's historic Oakland Cemetery. His obituary was in the Atlanta Constitution, 17 Aug 1882, on the front page. Inscribed on the side of his marble monument: "When too feeble to speak, he wrote the following: 'If a grain of corn will die, and then rise again in so much beauty, why may not I die, and then rise again in fertile beauty and life. How is the last a greater mystery than the first, and by as much as I exceed the grain of corn in this life, why may not I exceed it in the new life. How can we limit the power of Him, who made the grain of corn, then made the same grain arise in such wonderous newness of life!'" A 50 foot statue was erected in his memory and is today housed in the Georgia Capitol Bldg. in Atlanta, along with a larger-than-life portrait of the Senator in the rotunda gallery. Painting by: Horace James Bradley (1862-1896). (Much data taken from the book, "Senator Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia; His Life, Speeches and Writings", written by his son, B. H. Hill, Jr., and published 1893 in Atlanta, GA) Other sources: "The Story of Georgia and the Georgia People" by George Gillman Smith, "Georgia's Landmarks, Memorials, and Legends" by Lucian Lamar Knight, "Troup Co. Georgia and Her People" by Forrest Clark Johnson III, "Memoirs of Georgia", "Men of Mark in Georgia" by William J. Northern, "American Biography" compiled by William Richard Cutter, Vol. 1, and "The History of Fulton Co., GA", by Walter G. Cooper. Post on GenForum July 25, 1999 from Karen Goudelock, KGoudelock@aol.com. "Interestingly enough, I have a Bible dated 1874 that belonged to my ggggaunt Mary Virginia Cook (daughter of James Robb Cook & Frances Emily Sterling of Troup Co). In the bible is a woodcut newspaper drawing of Sen Hill (articles on the back side are dated 1882). There is also another newspaper clipping with it that is entitled "Almost Home" (Dying words of Senator Benj J. Hill) by FGM. Following that is a poem entitled 'Almost Home'. Have no idea why Mary had it in her Bible other than she was born in Troup Co to prominent parents and her mother's father Wiley J Sterling was prominent in the area also. I'm assuming they had at least an acquaintance of Sen. Hill or were in some way related or friends to the Hill family. If you would be interest in a copy of the picture and poem, let me know and I'll copy it for you and mail. Karen in FL" (In later correspondance with Karen, she did send the woodcut newspaper drawing and poem to me) 4/19/2001. On a recent trip back to LaGrange, Troup Co., GA and to Atlanta where I was able to spend a little time at the archives in both places, I came across some new material I had not previously found for Sen. Benjamin Harvey Hill. From the book, "Reminiscences of Famous Georgians, Episodes and Incidents in the Lives of the Great Men of the State" Vol. II, First Edition, by Lucian Lamar Knight, M.A., published in Atlanta, GA in 1908 by Franklin-Turner Company, pp. 318-321; "On account of Mr. Hill's conspicuous prominence during the war in supporting the administrative policies of President Davis and in seeking to the very last to keep the smoldering cause of the Confederacy ablaze, it is somewhat singular that his home in LaGrange, Georgia, should have escaped destruction at the hands of fire-fiends when the torch was being so ruthlessly applied in the same locality to the dwelling-places of other so-called arch-offenders. The reason is best told by Mr. Hill himself: 'During the month of April, 1865,' said he 'the Federal army, under General Wilson, passed from Alabama into Georgia, just prior to the surrender of General Johnston and General Lee. The main army under General Wilson entered Georgia at Columbus, but a detachment of Federal soldiers under Colonel LaGrange - four thousand, I understand - entered the State at West Point, which was only sixteen miles distant from where I then resided. Hearing of the approach of the army, I hastened homeward; and while standing in the ashes of Atlanta, seventy miles away, I received two messages simultaneously: the one telling me that my house was burning and the other that General Lee had surrendered. Imagine my surprise on returning home to find that my house had not been burned, that my family had not been disturbed, and that a Federal soldier had not put his foot on my premises, the most conspicuous place in the town. Every other citizen, perhaps, had been visited. This was a mystery which I was unable to solve. I expected to suffer above any other citizen of the town. Yet I did not suffer at all. It was the general talk. No one doubted my fidelity to the Confederacy, because at that very moment, and for two months before, I had been the only public man in the Confederacy on the stump trying to rally the people against unconditional surrender. Of course the even was of sufficient consequence to induce me to make an effort to explain the mystery. I was told on inquiry that at the battle of West Point a young Federal officer who was a favorite with Colonel LaGrange was among the wounded, and that while his hurt was not serious, it prevented him from going on with the Federal forces. I fortunately had a niece living in the town of West Point whose husband was a physician and a surgeon. Knowing, as was afterwards reported, that the act would altogether agreeable to me, he went and offered his services to take the young wounded Federal officer to his home and care for him. That I supposed had something to do with it. Then, my slaves, who were faithful and devoted to the last hour, claimed that they had gone to the Federal headquarters while the troops were encamped in the town and had interposed for the protection of my family. That I supposed also had something to do with it. But I was still to find the true explanation. In the month of May, after all the armies had surrendered, a detachment of Federal soldiers came to LaGrange, and, at two o'clock in the morning, arrested me and took me off to Atlanta. It was while I was waiting there for transportation to Fort LaFayette that a gentleman came to see me, saying that he had come directly from Colonel LaGrange, who was then in the city of Macon, and that he had received from that officer himself the facts in explanation of the mystery of my singular exemption from pillage on that occasion. What he said in substance was that sometime during the summer of fall of 1864, while the armies of General Johnston and General Sherman were north of Atlanta, a number of ladies of Northern birth who had been residing in the South, and who had passed safely through General Johnston's lines under passports from the Confederate government, on returning home were captured in General Sherman's lines and carried to headquarters under suspicion of being spies. They were of course required to give an account of themselves. It turned out that these ladies happened to be among the number of those who had written to me frequently at Richmond asking my advice as to whether under the circumstances of privation and suffering in the Southern States I thought it best for them to leave the people from whom they had received so many marks of kindness, though Northern ladies, and to go back home; and if such was my advice, to give them the proper means of getting through the lines. I sent them what they needed and advised them to go. I never heard from them any more. But when these ladies were required, at General Sherman's headquarters, to give an account of themselves, they were naturally quite exuberant over the treatment which they had received from me. Colonel LaGrange was at that time in General Sherman's headquarters; I think, an officer on his staff. He became acquainted with these ladies and heard the story which they had told. As he approached the town of LaGrange, the place of my residence, the facts detailed to him by these ladies came to his recollection, and he informed this gentleman that when he came within two miles of my residence he stopped his whole command, and gave orders that not a soldier was to put his foot upon my premises under any pretext. That was the solution of the mystery.' " Note: (I believe the reference to his niece who married a physician in West Point, GA, would be Susan Celestia Hill, b. Dec. 30, 1834, who married Dr. Leonidas S. Means. Susan was the daughter of Benj. H. Hill's brother, James Madison Hill and Martha Ann Webb of nearby West Point, and later Chambers, AL just across the river) 4/22/2001. The following 1880 letter was found at the Troup County Archives in LaGrange, GA. The writer and recipient are unknown at this time, but I am speculating the writer may be the wife of the "Dr. Felton" mentioned repeatedly, since it was a social convention of the time to refer to one's spouse formally in correspondance and social settings. The scandal was apparently not true and was an attempt to discredit Hill by his political enemies, according to newspaper accounts. However, it is hard to know whether or not that was really the case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ House of Representatives Washington D.C. March 4, 1880 My Dear Sister, Your kind letter came to hand, and I would have answered sooner but I have been going to the house regularly every day, and it takes up so much time. We are in the midst of a Senatorial scandal. A young woman brought suit against Mr. Hill for seduction and gave all particulars in the morning paper yesterday. I'll cut them out and send to you. Keep the clips as perhaps they are worth pursuing. Today she published an affidavit that she has no complaint against Hill whatever. As soon as it appeared yesterday, Dr. F. went to see Mr. Hill. He told me to go see Mrs. H. as soon as I could after he started to the Capitol. She was very quiet, but feeling terribly mortified as you may guess. Dr. F. had known of it some time. It is thought the woman was sent here by Mat Murphy - and Eugene Speer, (Emory's cousin) carried her to a boardiing house and introduced her as Mrs. Hamilton. The boarding house people got suspicious and sent her off. Speer took her to the Washington House and introduced her as Miss Raymond. Mrs. Hill says she never heard a breath of it, until she saw it in the paper. It is very black. Dr. Felton says it is a genuine black mail, because Hill was here in Nov. 1877. Don't let anybody know I have said a word about it. Show the newspaper clips but I don't want it to be known that I wrote as much as I have. My statement would fly all over the state, if there could be any harm made out of it, because Dr. Felton says Gordon is at the bottom of it - he has attacked Dr. Felton through Simmons - Mr. Stephens through Howard Williams - and now Hill in this way. Speer is thick with the other crones. I carried Mrs. Tuggle to see the English hautier at the Riggs House - pictures of Miss Langtry and Mrs. Price, Countess Dudley and Countess Lonsdale. M called to see Mrs. Sunset-Cox at the same time. She appeared to enjoy her visit very much. My gowns are so nice. The chambermaid is just through admiring the one I sleep in. Joe Brown writes to Dr. Felton that he wished the right of way through his land for a railroad and Dr. Felton gave it to him. I hope that fight is over. I suspect Simmons will go through now as they have at least proved him a democrat. I guess it was because he voted for Gordon for Governor. Give my love to all. I have a new bonnet for Ma - as soon as I can will send it to her. It is an English straw, black and quite pretty I think. I thought she would like a new hat to wear this Spring. Yours, R. A. F. From: Troup County Archives, LaGrange, GA Accession No. MS82 Box Number: 1:6 Folder Heading: Ltrs 1880-81 Special Copying Instructions: "no envelope please. Thanks" _________________________________________________________________________________ 5/2/01 Correspondant and Hill descendant, Janet Hunter, who lives in VA did some research into this letter at her local library. In the newspaper archives she found a number of articles on the scandal in the Alexandria Gazette. Janet will continue to search for more details as her time permits. "Jackie, I got only as far as April 15....A trial is to begin in about ten days. Benj's accuser Jessie Raymond in the meantime apparently dogged Benj in the halls with baby in arms. She was kicked out of the Senate gallery because babies are verboten there. While she was in the gallery apparently there was ribald comment on the Senate floor to the effect that the much older Sen. Benj Hill didn't really have it in him, so to speak, to have done the deeds attributed to him. Raymond had police protection throughout, and was dogged by crowds. Also, one commentary said that even Sen Hill's ENEMIES were on his side in this. Throughout it all he kept his Elections Committee at work. They apparently had the job of deciding whether Senators had been fairly elected. I wasn't prepared for this much. But that sums up the 15 or so notes in the Gazette I copied from microfilm. I will hopefully write it up for the list sometime within the next day or so. Janet (Baugh) Hunter" 5/5/01 rec'd followup email from Janet. Articles March 3-April 17, 1880, Regarding Senator Benjamin Harvey Hill of GA in the "Alexandria Gazette And Virginia Advertiser" Published Daily (evening) and Tri-weekly by Edgar Snowden. MARCH 3 – #1 – (News of the Day.) A long threatened suit for seduction against Senator Ben Hill, of Georgia, was entered yesterday. The plaintiff is Miss Jessie Raymond, a young woman 23 years of age. She claims $10,000 damages. In her declaration Miss Raymond alleges that in November 1877, the defendant committed the offense complained of, and the result of his visits to her was the birth of a child in August 1878. #2 - (From Washington.) Senator Hill utterly denies and scouts the charges brought in the suit instituted in the Criminal Court here against him for seduction, and the case is generally supposed to be one of blackmail. MARCH 4 - (From Washington.) There are two stories afloat to day with regard to the latest Senatorial scandal – one to the effect that Mr. Hill is to prosecute Mrs. Lockwood to the full extent of the law, and will commence it by moving to have her disbarred from practicing in the courts here for complicity in an attempt at blackmail; and the other, that Mr. Hill having paid Mrs. Raymond, the complainant, $500 to publish a public denial of the charge, and that the lady having failed to pay Mrs. Lockwood the fee she had promised her, the latter had instituted proceedings to collect it. MARCH 8 - (From Washington.) The Journal of the Senate has been examined and from it is ascertained the fact that at the very time Mrs. Raymond charges Mr Hill with being in Atlanta he was here in attendance upon his duties as Senator. MARCH 14 - (From Washington.) It was currently reported in the Capitol this morning that the Hill scandal was to be alluded to in the Senate, and notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather the pruriant curiosity of many of both sexes led them to be present at the scene they had expected to witness. Mr. Hill, however, had no such expectation, and was in the Supreme Court at 2 o’clock, when this letter was written. (Note: I found nothing regarding a Senate reference that the scandal was alluded to.) MARCH 19 - (From Washington.) Miss Horton and Miss Raymond were both at the Capitol yesterday afternoon, the former looking for Senator Morgan’s son, and the latter for Senator Hill, but as neither of them was at all belligerent, though shadowed by the police, they were not interfered with, and were allowed to pursue the even tenor of their devious way. (Note: I don’t know who Miss Horton would be, but this could be a separate scandal. The name didn’t really register with me when I was looking at the microfilm, but my interest was piqued by the name HORTON, as I have some PA>NC>TN Quaker Hortons. I went to politicalgraveyard .com and found a Senator John Tyler Morgan, of Selma AL, who was a Senator at the time….http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan.html) MARCH 23 - (From Washington.) Miss Horton and Miss Raymond, the latter accompanied with a baby, were at the Capitol to day, the former sitting in the Marble room and the latter in the ladies gallery, in full view of Mr. Hill, who was occupying his seat on the floor, and who did not appear annoyed in the least by her presence. Indeed he remarked laughingly to some of his colleagues sitting near him, "Every old woman in the gallery has her glasses pointing at me, and is saying to her friends, ‘Who’d a thought it.’" But Miss Raymond was not allowed to retain her seat long, for the captain of the Capitol police soon approached and informed her that babies were not allowed admittance to the galleries, and that she must take her’s away. This she did, and as she led the child through the corridors, she was followed by a large crowd of men gossips – the worst sort in the world – who closely inspected her and the infant. The constant presence of these women at the Capitol is now supposed to be induced by means employed by the enemies of Mr. Hill, for no wronged woman, anxious to do right and to regain the estimation of their friends, would resort to such a course as they are pursuing. If it is as supposed, their action is producing a directly contrary effect, for they are now scandalizing the Senate of the U.S., and, in consequence, are being severely censured, not only by Mr. Hill’s friends, but by the better class of his political enemies, and are evoking a sympathy for him which otherwise might not be manifested. MARCH 24 - (Editorial) Senator Benjamin H. Hill has made affidavit to the effect that he never saw Miss Raymond but once in his life, and then only for a few minutes in a law office in Atlanta and in the presence of two other lawyers. He has sworn before God and man that the charge she brings against him is false. As Mr. Hill is a Senator of the United States, as those who know him at home, his neighbors, look upon him as an honorable man, and as the only possible excuse for a false oath, the preservation of a woman’s honor, does not apply in this case, there is no sufficient reason for doubting that he tells the truth. This being so, the annoyance of the scandal to which himself, his family and the Senate of the United States are daily subjected by his brazen-faced accuser is a great shame, and some means should be devised for putting a stop to its continuance. The rules of propriety as well as those of law should be enforced by the police of Washington, and to say that she is committing no breach of the peace is not a good reason for permitting her to follow Mr. Hill about, at the instance of his political enemies, and annoying him as she has been doing for the past month. MARCH 26 - (New of the Day) Miss Jessie Raymond, the young woman who has been haunting Senator Hill, settled her board bill at the Washington House, in Washington, yesterday, and taking her infant left the city for parts unknown. The papers in the suit entered by Mrs. Lockwood for Miss Raymond are still on file, but unless the plaintiff makes her appearance at the proper time the will amount to nothing. APRIL 7 – (News of the Day) When the Hill-Raymond seduction case was called in the Washington Circuit court yesterday, counsel for Senator Hill asked that the case be struck from the docket, as it had been brought against the protest of its plaintiff, Miss Raymond, whereupon Mrs. Lawyer Lockwood, who had not been notified of the case, appeared and made affidavit that she had not protested against bringing the case. APRIL 13 – Now that it has been decided by the court that the suit brought against Senator Hill by Mrs. Lockwood for the seduction of Miss Raymond shall be tried, the gossips are reveling in expectation of the developments of the trial, which it is supposed, will commence in about two weeks. In any other court of the country the suit would have been dismissed and Mrs. Lockwood been disbarred from practicing for instituting it, but the ways of the courts in Washington, like those of some others, are past finding out. APRIL 13 – MAY 14. I have gone through the Gazette for this period and have not found anything on a subsequent trial that was expected in two weeks. APRIL 16 - (From Washington.) Senator Ben Hill has published a letter in the Augusta Constitutionalist to which he asseverates his innocence of the recent charges brought against him, and says he has reason to believe they were instigated by certain members of his own political party in George who are jealous of him and that they employed Mr. Kellogg's ex mistress as one of their instruments effecting the object of their conspiracy. Rec'd from the Atlanta-Fulton Library: 5-7-01 Since there is no index to the paper for this time period, it is very difficult to find information without a specific date. We checked the two biographies on Hill that we own and found no mention of this incident. We then checked the Atlanta Constitution, beginning with March 3. It is extrememly difficult to read these old papers on microfilm, so we might have missed any number of things. In the March 7 issue we did find a mention of this incident under "Condensed Politics," which appears to be a summary of happenings in D.C. It reads: "The lull in the Simmons business was taken advantage of by a disreputable woman from Georgia to make an attempt to blackmail Senator Hill. As you have been advised, the Senator did not 'scare' and the blackmailers beat a hasty retreat. It is said that Sen. Hill will have Mrs. Belva Lockwood, the female lawyer who induced the woman to begin the suit, indicted, as well as one or two other parties here who conspired to make the blackmail a success. Sen. Hill was congratulated by a number of senators on his firmness in not paying a cent. He said he would spend considerable dollars in prosecuting the blackmailers, but would not give a nickel to stop the suit. Senators are frequently made targets by this class of people, who think they will give money rather than bear a scandal. This scandal was short-lived, and killed in its infancy, branded a base attempt to extort money. The suit will be withdrawn." You might be able to get copies of the Atlanta Constitution on microfilm via interlibrary loan at your local library. You also might try calling the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Research Service (800-756-4197) since obviously the entire episode was finished by March 7 (which should make it easier in obtaining information). If you would like a copy of the article we found (text above), please let us know and we will gladly send it free of charge. Information Line Dept. Atlanta-Fulton Public Library 1 Margaret Mitchell Square Atlanta, GA 30303 Tel:(404) 730-4636 Fax:(404) 730-1989 5/20/2001. Rec'd following transcript from Lookup Volunteer in DC. The New York Times, 3 March 1880, page 3, Arlington County Central Library. Senator Ben Hill in Trouble. Charged with seduction and sued for $10,000 Damages. Washington, March 2.-- Suit was entered in this city to-day by Mrs. Belva Lockwood, attorney, in behalf of Mrs. Jessie Raymond, of Alabama, a woman of 28 years, against Senator Benjamin H. Hill, of Georgia, for seduction. the damages being laid at $10,000. Mrs. Raymond came to this city about four weeks ago with her little son. She applied to Senator Hill for money with which to support herself and child, but he refused to have anything to do with her, and denied that she had any claim upon him. She then enlisted ex-Congressman Pelham, of Alabama, in her behalf, and secured his services as counsel. Mr. Pelham endeavored to induce Senator Hill to contribute something to the woman's support, but the Senator denied that he was guilty of the offense with which he was charged by the woman, and again refused to help her. She then engaged Mrs. Lockwood to take charge of her case, and Mrs. Lockwood represented to Senator Hill that Mrs. Raymond needed $500 for her present necessities. It is asserted by the woman's friends that Senator Hill then offered to provide new and suitable clothing for her, to pay her debts, and to aid her in leaving the city. Mrs. Lockwood holds a letter, said to have been written by Senator Hill to Mrs. Raymond while the latter was in Alabama. The plaintiff's petition in the suit sets forth that she was seduced by the defendant Nov. 7, 1877, the latter taking advantage of the fact that she was friendless and alone. She also asserts that the child, whom she named Thomas Benjamin Hill, was born August 1, 1878 as the result of her intimacy with the defendant; that before her seduction she was of good character, but that in consequence of it she has been rendered friendless and homeless. She asks that the matter be inquired into by the country. The petition also sets forth that the plaintiff has received $30 from the defendant in intallments of $5 each. It is said that Senator Hill will be summoned into court to-morrow from the Senate Chamber by civil process. Senator Hill, in conversation to-night, said that he had not received notice of the suit, declared that it was a case of black-mail, and that he would have all the parties to the suit arrested upon a charge of conspiracy. _____________ The New York Times, 4 March 1880, page 1, Arlington County Central Library. An Unauthorized Suit Washington, March 3,-- Jessie Raymond in whos behalf Mrs. Belva Lockwood yesterday filed papers in this city in a suit against Senator B. H. Hill for alleged seduction, furnished the following statement: Washington, March 3 Whereas a suit has been filed by Belva A. Lockwood, an attorney at law in the District of Columbia, in my name, against Benjamin H. Hill, the same being an action of damages for seduction and support of child; now, of my own free will and consent, without pay or reward or promise thereof, I declare that I have no claim whatever against Benjamin H. Hill, and he is not my seducer; that the papers filed by said Lockwood were filed without my knowlege or consent and against my solemn protest; that they were never read over to me, or by me, and their contents were unknown to me an no oath was put to me or taken by me in said case. Jessie Raymond	Benjamin Harvey HILL, Senator
218	Buried in the Hill family plot in historic Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA. Note of interest: B.H. Hill, Jr. was often called the nickname "Cicero" by his family and close friends. I believe it had to do with his love of reading many of the classics in literature. He refers to this nickname himself in the book he wrote about his father, "Senator Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia; His Life, Speeches and Writings", published in 1893. It should also be noted that his maternal grandfather was Cicero Holt. He is also listed as Cicero H. Hill on the 1850 census of Troup Co., when he was age 1. From the book, "The Hills of Wilkes County, Georgia" by Lodowick Johnson Hill, first pub. 1922, reprinted 1972. page 130 "Judge Benjamin Harvey Hill... son of U.S. Senator Benjamin Harvey Hill, dec'd. and his wife, Caroline E. Holt; formerly Solicitor Genl., Atlanta Criminal Court, ex-Chief Justice State Court of Appeals, and ex-Judge Superior Criminal Court of Atlanta. He resigned the former to accept the latter as affording more congenial and less arduous work, and served until Jan. 1, 1920, and now again Associate Justice of the State Court of Appeals." From the book, "The Hills of Wilkes Co., GA & Allied Families, Vol. II" by M. B. Warren, pub. 1987, pg. 481, it states his first wife was Mary Carter who died without issue, and his second wife was Janie May Hill. Both wives are buried in the Hill family plot in Atlanta. 5/18/03. Found in Atlanta City Directory for the year 1889-90: Name Business Name Occupation Location City State Year Benj. H. Hill, Jr. Custom House U.S. Dist. Attny r 230 Peachtree Atlanta GA 1889 Caroline E. Hill (widow of B. H. Hill, Sr.) r 230 Peachtree Atlanta GA 1889 (She is living with her son) 2/3/2004. From online site for GA government historical biographies at: http://www.gaappeals.us/history/judges.php?id=01 (There is a lengthy bio of him there, only a small part of it copied here)) "No name stands higher ill the annals of Georgia than that of Benjamin Harvey Hill. Few men in the nation have ranked so high in statesmanship as the senior of that name. The junior -the subject of this memorial- was born in LaGrange, Georgia, on July 1, 1849. His early impressions were moulded amidst the clash of arms and all the sorrows and privations incident to the great fratricidal struggle, and he grew to young manhood during the dark days of reconstruction. Sitting at the feet of his distinguished father and listening to burning words of eloquence, which electrified the Southland, he naturally inherited his father's political views and proved himself worthy in every respect of the illustrious name he bore. Indeed, his admiration for his father caused him, of his own volition, to change his name after he went to college, he having been baptized as 'Cicero Holt Hill'. Benjamin H. Hill, the second, was the elder of two brothers, the younger, Charles D. Hill, having died a few years ago. Both sons achieved distinction in their chosen profession of the law. In 1866, when seventeen years of age, young Hill matriculated at the University of Georgia, entering the freshman class. During his college career he and Henry W. Grady became intimate friends and this relationship continued until the latter's death. Indeed, Judge Hill stated to a member of this committee that Henry W. Grady was the most intimate friend of a lifetime, except the members of his own family. His career at college foreshadowed future success, for he graduated from the academic department of the university, in 1869, having completed the four-year course in three years. In 1871 he graduated from the law department of the University and received from that institution the degree of Bachelor of Arts and bachelor of laws. He delivered the graduating address of his class in the academic department. At college he was a charter member of the Chi Phi Fraternity. After graduating, at the suggestion of his father he spent several months in Europe, in order to broaden his outlook upon life and better fit him for the duties of manhood which he was about to assume. In 1872 the partnership of B. H. Hill & Son was formed for the practice of law in Atlanta, and Mr. Hill was an active member of this firm for four years and until 1876, when he was appointed solicitor general of the Atlanta circuit by Governor Colquitt. He was twice elected to this office by the General Assembly, but declined a third term, to accept the office of United States district attorney for the northern district of Georgia, to which he was appointed by President Cleveland. One of the daily newspapers in Atlanta, after referring to his record as solicitor-general, paid him this high tribute: "This record is unparalleled in efficiency, brilliancy, and the amount of work done. There is no better prosecuting officer than Mr. Hill, none that has made so fine a record. Modest, quiet, devoted to his duty, Mr. Hill has won the admiration and approval of everyone who has taken notice of his work. A better officer never served the State." In 1889 he formed a law partnership with his brother, Charles D. Hill, who for many years was the able and brilliant solicitor-general of the Atlanta circuit, having succeeded his brother in that office. This partnership continued in existence until January 1, 1907. In 1906 the Court of Appeals was created, and Mr. Hill was prevailed upon to make the race for one of the judgeships. He was elected over a large number of contestants, among whom were some of the ablest members of the Georgia bar. When the court was organized he was by common consent -on account of his age, experience, and ability recognized as the logical selection for the first head of the court. He was Chief Judge of this court from January 1, 1907, to November 1, 1913, and, as such, had a large part in establishing the court in the confidence of the bar and the public. Mr. Hill was married twice, the first time to Miss Mary Carter, of Athens, daughter of Samuel Carter, of Murray county, and niece of Governor Alfred H. Colquitt. She died in 1891. In 1892 Mr. Hill married Miss Janie May Hill, daughter of James DuBose Hill, of Wilkes County. She and two children survive the deceased, the children being Mrs. Edward M. Leath, of Birmingham, Ala., and Benjamin Harvey Hill, a promising young man preparing to enter the legal profession. "	Benjamin Harvey HILL, Jr., Judge
219	Benjamin and Rebecca divorced before 1850. Rebecca went to Robertson Co., TX with their son Henry John Alexander Hill. Benjamin, age 67, was living in the same household as Jackson Riley according to the 1850, Warren Co., TN census. Central Gazette, McMinnville, Warren Co., TN. September 21, 1840: "Notice - I forewarn all persons from trading or crediting my wife, Rebecca Hill, on my account as I will not pay any of her contracts. Benjamin Hill." Warren Co., TN Land Records 1844-1870, pp. 76-77: "Benjamin Hill to Henry J. A. Hill of Texas, January 13, 1849, because Benjamin and Rebecca divorced, 2 negros, Dick, age 2, and a girl, Phil, age 12, harness and carriage. Witness: Rebecca Hill and Samuel Turney." Page 461: "Benjamin Hill to Benjamin Jr., April 20, 1850, as Benjamin Jr. agrees to go to Texas as Attorney for Benjamin Sr., and take care of all business, including selling of lands." pp. 131-134: "25 July 1852. Sale bill of the personal property of the estate of Benjamin Hill, dec'd. Purchased by Monticue P. Hill, Lafayette Hill, Benjamin Hill, A. W. Hill, B. W. D. Hill, James M. Hill, M.D. Hill, H. L. W. Hill and others." Warren Co., TN Will Book, 1-3. Benjamin died intestate "leaving considerable estate both real and personal." William C. Hill was the administrator of record. Records of court proceedings indicate that George W. Hill and Rebecca Hill brought an action against the estate. Rebecca "filed her cross bill asserting her rights to a portion of said estate as such widow and proposing as the land and negroes had been sold before she became a party to this proceeding to take a child's part in said estate." She prevailed. (Warren Co., TN Chancery County Minutes, Minute Book 1, page 481)	Benjamin J. HILL
220	In October 1844, Geo. W. Hill, Sr. was appointed guardian of Benjamin J. C. Hill and George Washington Hill (heirs of John A. Hill, minors). Per the 1850 census he was living in the household of Dr. George W. Hill. In the1860 census for Navarro Co., TX, Benjamin was found living in Navarro Co., TX, married with one 7 yr. old child, M. L. Hill. Benj. J. C. Hill served as 3rd Lieutenant in Winkler's Co., Co. I, 4th Texas Volunteer Infantry, the "Navarro Rifles" in 1861. (From "The History of Navarro Co.") He resigned and returned to Texas in 1861. Also in this same Co. I, 4th Tx Volunteer Infantry were the following: Hill, Jack - killed Sept. 1864 Hill, J. H. - wounded Antietam, 17 Sept 1862 and discharged (It is unknown if these two Hills were related to B.J.C. Hill) It also appears that Benj. J. C. Hill served in Dresden's Texas Cavalry, Co. I, 19th Texas Cavalry Regiment. In the Hill County, TX Land Survey Abstract Indices of the Original Land Owners of Texas, BJC Hill is listed as having 404 leagues of land. (No date listed) Hill Co. is right next to Navarro Co.	Benjamin J. C. HILL
221	He died while serving in the CSA at age 20. Col. 35th Regt. CSA and Pro. M Gen. CSA	Benjamin Jefferson HILL
222	NAME: "Winslow" in 1850 census (Warren Co., TN) Occupation: Teacher	Benjamin Winslow Dudley HILL
223	Settled in Spring Hill, Navarro Co., TX in 1886.	Benjamin Winslow Dudley HILL, M.D.
224	Goodspeed "History of Tennessee" p 896 NAME: "Bethiah" in 1850 census, "Bathiah" in Marriage Book A p 55, "Bertha" in Goodspeed Biography.	Bethiah HILL
225	Letters of Adm. date 2 Feb 1910; disch'd 14 Oct 1912, Starke Co. bur. (unkn) m.(1st), Rena RANK, 1 Oct 1886 Starke County, Ind. m.(2nd), Matilda M. REASONER, 17 Nov 1895, by R. W. Barton, Pastor M.E. church, Hamlet; wit. by J.C. and Ellen Reasoner; at home, Knox, Ind.; her age next bthday 22, and his 32; her first m., and his second m. b.ca. 1874 Benton County, Ohio; dau. of J. C. Reasoner & wife Ellen (Weed) Reasoner, of Starke County, Ind.	Caleb J HILL
226	He went to Swarthmore College. (From the book, "Those Valiant Texasn, A Breed Apart" by Robert M. Bartlett. p. 190) From excerpts of the writings of Lucy Amanda Hill found in the Texas Archives in Austin, TX and written in 1936. "Carlos Francisco Hill was born in Orizava, Mexico, Oct. 4, 1862. When a boy of fourteen years of age he came from Mexico to Texas with his father and spent some months with the family of James M. Hill (his father's brother) in his home near Fayetteville, Fayette Co., Texas. He attended school a short time in Texas, then his father placed him in Sathmorre College, near Philadelphia. He voluntarily left that College and returned to Mexico. After some years no news came of him."	Carlos Francisco HILL
227	Ceylon moved from Chicasaw Co., MS to Clark Co., AR, Antoine Township, after 1850 to join his brother Milton and father, Rev. Allen Hill. Ceylon and family appear on the1870 census for Clark Co., Ark. Ceylon is 44 yr old, has a wife, one daughter and two sons, including Samuel Allen Hill, age 9. Listed in the Southern Standard Newspaper Obits and Death Notices; "Hill, C. S., one of Clark County's oldest and most esteemed citizens, died at his residence in Okolona, last Friday, after a long illness. He leaves an aged widow and several children." Buried in Okolona Cemetery (Thornton Field Cemetery), Northeast Quarter. Oct. 2003; From descendant John Bronson, JBron10544@aol.com. John believes Ceylon's middle initial "S." stood for Shakespeare.	Ceylon S. HILL
228	Charles and his wife Caroline were cousins per the following information from the book "The Hills of Wilkes Co., GA and Allied Families, Vol. 2, p. 630" : "Thomas (Tommy) Gerdine, Jr., m. Florida Ferrell (Flossie) Hill, the daughter of Benjamin Harvey Hill and Mary Blount Ridley, granddaughter of Charles Dougherty Hill and his cousin Caroline Henrietta Hughes, ggrandaughter of Sen. Benjamin Harvey Hill and Caroline Elizabeth Holt, gggdaughter of John Hill, native of NC, living in Jasper Co., GA, when his son B. H. Hill was born, then moved to Troup Co., GA and Sarah Parham." Buried in the Hill family plot in Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA. 5/19/03. Found listing for Atlanta, GA City Directory for 1889-90. Name Business Name Occupation Work Location Residence City State Year Charles D. Hill Atlanta Circuit Sol. General 8 1/2 Marietta r 24 W. Baker Atlanta GA 1889	Charles Dougherty HILL
229	Information on David Lawson Hill descendants from family genealogy sheets found in McMinnville, TN at Magness Library in 1998. Placed in file abt. 1996 by Mildred B. Lasater, 1007 Pleasant Grove Rd., Woodville, AL 35776. phone: 205-587-6261	David Lawson HILL
230	4/2000 GenForum post in response to one of my HILL posts: "...am descended from John Hill and Sarah Parham through another son, John Stith Hill, who was my great-grandfather. His daughter, Mary Julia Hill, of LaGrange, GA married Dr. Charles M. Hill from a Hill line of Madison, GA. They moved to California where Dr. Hill was employed by Eureka Mines in Plumas County, CA. Charlie Hill Columbia, SC email: mercha@cyberstate.infi.net"	Dr. Charles M. HILL
231	Listed as age 1 on 1850 Census of Troup Co, Georgia, and age 11 on 1860 census of Troup Co., GA.	Edward C. HILL
232	*Note: Names of Mitchell Watkins and Elizabeth Hill's children are from the family Bible of their son, Mitchell Watkins, b. 1804, and from a letter written in 1891 to Macon Warthen by Patrick Sheppard. Patrick was the son of Phonetta Watkins and John Sheppard. (This information provided by Oliver Jenkins in Chattanooga, TN, Aug. 1998. His cousin is in possession of the Watkins family Bible.) 3/24/03 Email from Tina Peddie of CA "I desc. from Isaac Hill's daughter, Elizabeth HIll & MItchell Watkins, Sr. of Edgec.Co. They went to Washington Co.GA in 1797 by wagon train with several other Edgec. Co. families. Mitchell was a surveyor. I desc. from their son, Richard Watkins b. 1803 Wash.Co.GA who m. Celia WYNN. I had thought for YEARS she was the dtr of Wm. Wynn b. 1790 Burke Co.GA & Susan Hinson (some still think that), but if so, they would have had to havebeen marr. very young, like 11! But most of us do believe that this Celia WYNN is very close kin to Wm. Wynn., and poss. the dtr of Wm. Wynne & Eliz. Echols (who are the parents of Wm. Wynn b. 1790)."	Elizabeth HILL
233	Both Elizabeth Ingram Hill and Laura Adelaid Hill married Wilkinsons. The name is sometimes found as "Wilkerson" in some records, but according to descendent, James A. Wilkinson (now deceased) the name was sometimes pronounced Wilkerson even though the spelling was Wilkinson. (information per Lila and Harvey Eubanks who visited Mr. James Wilkinson in the 1960's. Email: lilaceub@burgoyne.com) Note: Is Laura Adelaid Hill the daughter of Isaac Lafayette Hill, known as "Lollie", and first cousin to Elizabeth Hill? Need to write Lila Eubanks to clarify. Elizabeth's obituary is in Southern Christian Advocate, Nov. 13, 1877.	Elizabeth Ingram HILL
234	NAME: "Alenza" in 1850 census; "Elenza" in Will Book 5 p 53, WCGA and Cemetery Book (Warren Co., TN) Majors: Cemetery Book 2 p 156	Ellenza Grundy HILL
235	Emily is buried in the Hill family plot in Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA. She is referred to as "Emma" in some publications.	Emily Leila HILL
236	Erven married his first cousin, Elenor, daughter of Martha Hill and David Morgan. Her mother, Martha, was a sister of Henry J.A. Hill, who was Erven's father. Erven is buried in the Center Hill Cemetery, Hill's Creek, outside McMinnville, TN. His headstone reads: "Sacred to the memory of Erven Hill born July 17, 1796 died April 15, 1836" Erven is often referred to as Irving and Ervin and Erwin. The spelling of "Erven" was taken from his old headstone at the Center Hill Cemetery. (formerly Hill's Creek Cemetery)	Erven HILL
237	Ervin (sometimes found as Erving) was a boy of 14 at the outbreak of the Civil War. Caught up in the patriotic fever of the moment, he enlisted in the 5th Regiment (later designated the35th), Tennessee Volunteers, formed in McMinnville by men from Warren and surrounding counties. They trained briefly at Camp Smartt and were then ordered to Bowling Green, KY. It was during a skirmish around Bowling Green that Irvin Bowen had a horse shot out from under him resulting in his being crippled when his mount fell on him. Detailed to light duty as a hospital orderly around the regimental physician's tent, Dr. William Carroll Barnes came to see that he would not soon recover well enough from his injury to be able to return to active duty. This was coupled with Dr. Barnes learning of his youthful age of 14. These two factors influenced Dr. Barnes to send Irvin Bowen home on medical discharge." (The Hill Family of Beersheba Srpings, TN, Ralph H. Willis and Mrs. Delbert Denton) Note: Descendant Judy Richard, email: one_faith43@hotmail.com, is searching for additional info. on Ervin and family, particularly where he and his wife died and are buried, and more on the children.	Ervin Bowen HILL
238	Ervin L. is buried in Center Hill Cemetery, Hill's Creek, outside McMinnville, TN. His grave is off a ways from the other Hills in his family and has a very rough hewn stone in place with the following scratched into it: "E. L. Hill 1869" His name is often listed as Irvine or Irving on census and documents. His family is listed on the 1850 census for Warren County, TN as follows: VIN Family Sex Name Age Occ Land Birthplace 03505,0567-01,M,Irvine,L.,Hill,26,Farmer,750,TN 03506,0567-02,F,Susan,,Hill,25,,,TN 03507,0567-03,M,Irvine,,Hill,5,,,TN 03508,0567-04,M,John,A.,Hill,3,,,TN 03509,0567-05,M,Jessee,J.,Hill,0,,,TN	Ervin Lafayette HILL
239	5/8/03 Byron Hill sent me copy of an email he recently rec'd. "glen.nickel@worldnet.att.net writes: I guess I'm one of your long-lost cousins. My name is Caroline Kay Elder Nickel; I live in Bernardsville, NJ, but was born and raised in Oklahoma City, OK. I've just discovered your Hill genealogy page and want to inform you that Ervin (we always thought it was Erwin) and Mary Sawyer Hill are my great-grandparents. My mother was Audrey Lucretia Fulks Elder, daughter of Crete Hill (395) and Henry Grady Fulks. This has so much more information than I've ever known anything about. Can you share with me where you found or how you gathered most of this information. We have very few Hill relatives still living: the wife of James Donald Hill (Ethel Thibeaux Hill) b. 1908, still lives in Houston. Her son, James Joseph Hill, b. 1950, lives in Austin, TX." 5/11/03. Correspondance with Caroline Etter Nickel. Sent me printout of "Descendants of Jonathan P. Hill". Many birth/death/marriage dates and children filled in from this data. In 1880 census, at age 22, Ervin is listed as a farmer with his father. He was also a bank president, college professor, and cotton farmer in TN.	Ervin Lafayette HILL
240	E-mail from Jan Jennings jj20@@cornell.edu (3/15/99)	Euphemia L. "Fannie" HILL
241	From "Goodspeed's History of TN, Warren Co." "Franklin Hill, farmer and stock raiser of Warren County, and now a resident of the Sixth Civil District was born near his present home July 20, 1855, and is the son of Col. H. L. W. and Virginia (Dearing) Hill. Our subject is the sixth of ten children. He lived with his parents up to the time of his marriage, which occurred June 24, 1875, and then moved to his present location. His wife, Leanora Myers, is a daughter of J. N. and N. Myers. She is well educated and a member of the Christian Church. To their union were born five children; Oscar, H. L. W., Virginia, Beatrice, and Walter, who was born July 11, 1876, and died July 24, 1876. Our subject has a good education, which he secured at Water's and Walling's College, McMinnville, Tenn. He began life for himself by purchasing 400 acres of land of his father, which by hard work and good management has increased greatly in value."	Franklin HILL
242	In 1850 George is living in the household of George W. Hill, Physician. In 1860 he is found living in Navarro Co., TX (1860 Census, Navarro Co., household #638-616. He is not found in the 1870 or 1880 census for Texas. He is said to have died young. 1860 Census, Navarro Co., TX Hill, Washington, 29, m, TN, Farmer , Margrett, 18, f, AR , John A., 2, m, TX , M, 5, f, LA , A, 8 1/2, f, TX Armstrong, John, 20, m, LA (relationship, if any, unknown to Hill family) 10/09/01 Email rec'd from Robert Kimble, descendant, who furnished the following info: "I read your web page on George Washington Hill. Margaret UNKNOWN is Margaret Langston. This information comes from the Civil War pension documents of my great-grandfather, William Killian. William is the son of Samuel Killian and Lucinda Hill. This information is in the documents also. It tells of William's first wife (Nancy) dying at Wash Hill's place near Spring Hill, TX, Navarro Co. Also it mentions John, Jim and Fannie. Fannie was raised by Lydia (Meek) Killian after Margaret's death till she was 9 at which time John took her to raise. Lydia's mother is Rhoda (Langston) Meek. The documents say that Margaret is her sister. If you would like copies I can send them to you. Robert Kimble RKi4222422@aol.com" 11/25/01. Rec'd quotes from Byron Hill from the deposition of Cora Dunn in the case of Liddy M. Killian, Sep. 1920. Byron rec'd this data from Robert Kimble recently. From deposition of Cora Dunn, case of Liddy M. Killian. Sep. 1920 "My age is 67. Rfd 1, Saint Jo, Tex. Widow. William Killian was my uncle. My mother Susana Bess, nee Killian was his full sister." "Wash Hill was dead and his widow Margaret Hill has since died, I knew their children John, Jim and Fanny..." Fanny Hill was raised by Lydia until she was 9 then went with her brother John. "I knew Liddy when she was a young single girl. Her maiden name was Meeks. I met her when I first moved to Navarro Co. Tex. She then lived in Hill Co." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 7, 2003. Email from Robert Kimble. "I'm still trying to make connections. William Killian's mother was a Hill. William came down with pneumonia in 1887 and almost died. Lydia nursed him back to health at "Wash Hill's" place and they were later married. Lydia's aunt being a Langston and marrying a Hill, I'm sure there must be a connection. Lydia's daughter Rachel, my grandmother told me she was 1/4 Cherokee, she was born in IT in 1885. I believe this would make Rhoda Cherokee and thus her sister Margaret also. Since G.W. Hill was an Indian agent this seems to have a connection. If you send me a mailing address I will send you a copy of the deposition. Robert Kimble RKi4222422@aol.com"	George Washington HILL
243	It has been written that after attending common schools he received a degree in medicine from Transylvania University. However, inquiries into the school records have been unable to find any such record to that effect.* He was in Texas prior to December 15, 1835. He was paid a fee of twenty-five cents on February 5,1836 for services rendered on December 15, 1835. He served as a surgeon at Fort Houston in 1836-37. Later he settled in Milam Co., TX and was elected county medical censor. Feb. 28, 2004, found following reference while researching in Americus, Sumter Co., GA library. *Note: From "Genealogical Material from Legal Notices in Early Georgia Newspapers", pub. 1989 by Silas Emmett Lucas, p. 128. "Physicians licensed by Medical Board of Georgia, Dec. 2, 1833: (from issue of April 30, 1834). The following were licensed on examination: ... G. W. Hill of Troup County..." (There was one list of names licensed by presentation of diplomas, and one list of those licensed by examination. Dr. G. W. Hill apparently did not have, or did not present a diploma, but passed the examination for license instead). Geo. Washington Hill also served as Indian Agent, 1840-41, and was a member of Congress of Texas, 1839-42. He served as Secretary of War under Presidents Houston and Jones from 1844 until TX joined the United States. According to "The Handbook Of Texas", pub. 1996, " Hill County was named for Dr. George Washington Hill, who had served as President Sam Houston's secretary of war and who had been elected to the state legislature from Navarro County in 1851." He died at Springhill, Navarro Co., TX Jan 9 1860. He is buried at Dawson in the Spring Hill Cemetery, 7 miles east of state hwy 31 on Farm to Market 709 roadside park, Navarro County, TX. In the 1850 Census Navarro Co, TX Hill, Geo W 35 TN Physician , Catherine M 34 TN (Catherine's maiden name was Slaughter) Slaughter, R F 12 m TX (this would be Robert Slaughter, Catherine's son by Frank Slaughter)) , Mary J 9 f TN (unsure of these two girls; possibly Catherine's by Frank?) , L M 6 f TX Hill, B J C 20 m TN \__ the sons of John Ashley and Lucinda HILL , G W 19 m TN / , Benj F 10 m TX \ , Pernetha 8 f TX \ ____ Benj. F., Pernetha, Beeda; children of Henry J. A. Hill, b. abt 1804 , Beeda 6 f TX / , Jno 10 m TX / - unknown who's child this is; possibly another orphan of another Hill Reed, John 19 m NH Hill, Rebecca 67 f SC - Widow of Benj. Hill, mother of the deceased John Ashley Hill and Henry John Alexander Hill, grandmother to the above Benj F., Pernetha, and Biddy, and possibly to the 10 yr. old Jno. Mathis, R H 30 m TN Farmer (Last name is typo. Should be Matthews. Catherine's brother) Harper, Benj 63 m VA Carpenter The 1860 Census for Navarro County lists the following: Hill, G. W., 46 m TN , Catherine M., 46, f TN Slaughter, Robert, 23, TX (Catherine's son by her first husband, Frank Slaughter) Hill, Beedy, 16 f, TX (the orphaned daughter of Henry J. A. Hill (b. 1804) Killian, E., 25 m TN (the Killians were the children of Dr. Hill's sister, Lucinda who m. Samuel Killian) , Lawson 23 m TN , Wm 17 m TN , Solon B. 20 m TN The following is from The History of Navarro County, TX, pg. 83. " George Washington Hill One of the first settlers of Navarro County was George Washington Hill, who was born on Mar 12 1814, in Tennessee. Hill was appointed as Indian Agent by Sam Houston in 1837. He was sent north to establish a trading post. Great herds of well-fed buffaloes could be seen on the open prairies. In the spring of 1838, over 500 Indians of the Kickapoo Tribes came down from Arkansas and camped at the springs to hunt buffalo. The following Oct a group of surveyors from Franklin, TX, came to Hill's Trading Post. A few days later the Battle Creek fight occurred. An account of the battle is found elsewhere. From 1839 to 1842, George Hill was Congressman from Robertson County, and from 1843 to 1846, he was Secretary of War for Texas. On Nov 17, 1846, he married Mrs Catherine (although her stone says Katherine) Slaughter, a widow with two children, who lived in Franklin, TX. Many knew him as Dr. Hill. Dr and Mrs Hill built their home a few feet north of the springs. Near the house were several large oak trees. A few hundred feet south of the house was the Rock Wall Creek which was fed by the cool sparkling springs. Just back of the house was the garden. To the west and across the springs were the vast acres of the prairie grass. Here the doctor had his cattle, and nearby were the slaves' houses. How many slaves he owned was not known. However, since the slaves were buried in the family cemetery, it is evident that he regarded them as his family. George W Hill died on May 29, 1860. In 1853, when a county was being created out of Navarro County, Roger Q Mills of Corsicana, a good friend of George Hill, read into a bill the name of "Hill" thus Hill County received its name in memory of Dr George Washington Hill of Spring Hill. (p.84) In the center of the burial grounds, stands a large oak tree and beneath the tree is a granite marker which was put there in 1936 by the State of TX for his service to the Republic of TX." The following is from "The New Handbook of Texas" now online at: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/index.html HILL, GEORGE WASHINGTON (1814-1860). George Washington Hill, secretary of war and secretary of the navy in Sam Houston'sqv cabinet, was born on April 22, 1814, at Hill Creek, Warren County, Tennessee. After attending common schools he received a degree in medicine from Transylvania University. He moved to Texas in 1836 and served as a surgeon at Fort Houston in 1836-37. The latter year he settled in Milam County and was elected county medical censor. There he married Matilda Slaughter. When Robertson County was formed from Milam County, Hill was elected to represent it in the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Seventh congresses. In 1841 he was appointed Indian agent by Sam Houston and the same year moved to Spring Hill in Navarro County. From January 16, 1843, to December 9, 1844, he served as secretary of war and navy in Houston's cabinet. After annexationqv Hill resumed the practice of medicine in Navarro County. In 1855 he was appointed first agent for the Brazos Indian Reservation.qv He died at Spring Hill on May 29, 1860, and was buried there. Hill County was named in his honor. 8/16/99. The following information and a photo of the trading post was found at this web site; http://www.rootsweb.com/~txnavarr/pv/trading.htm "This log trading post was built by Dr. George Washington Hill in 1838 near the present Indian Spring, close to the Spring Hill community, on direction by General Sam Houston to promote better relations with the Indians in the general Navarro County region. Tribes active in the area were the Kichai and Yscani, of the general Wichita Confederacy, the Tehuacanas, and the Wacos to the south on the Brazos. Parties of Comanches and Kiowas from the plains, and occasional groups of Cherokees and Kickapoos from Oklahoma Indian Territory, periodically traversed or penetrated the region as well. Collections housed in the cabin include Cretaceous fossils and late Pleistocene paleontological finds, including a Mammoth tooth; Indian artifacts from the Archaic Period (8,000 to 2,000 years ago) on up through the Historic, including in the latter many arrowpoints from the Surveyors Massacre battle site of 1838; and pictures and memorabilia of the famous Cynthia Ann Parker historic episode. The building was given to the Navarro County Historical Society in 1962 by Ott Matthews, a descendant of Dr. Hill." Additional information on Spring Hill, Oldest Community in Navarro County, can be found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txnavarr/towns/sprnghil.htm Researched by Barbara Davidson Patterson Originally published in "The Navarro County Scroll", Vol. XIX 1974 Reprinted with permission of the Navarro County Historical Society "Trading Post of Dr. George Washington Hill (1814-1860) Dedicated frontier physician and public servant of the Republic of Texas. Born in Tennessee, Hill received his medical degree from Transylvania University. He came to Texas in 1836, where he was a surgeon for Fort Houston at the opening of his lifelong practice. In 1837 Hill became the medical censor for Milam County. Later that year, he moved to newly created Robertson County, where he married Miss Matilda Slaughter. He entered public office as Robertson County Representative in the Congress of the Republic, 1838-41 and 1842-43. (Dawson - Farm-Market 709, 2 miles north, at roadside park) In 1838 Hill was reported operating a trading post near here. His home, called Spring Hill became the first settlement in Navarro County. Later that year, however, it was connected with a tragedy. A few days after spending the night at Hill's place twenty-one surveyors (including Hill's brother) were virtually annihilated by several hundred Kickapoos. Hill was named Indian agent for the Republic in 1841, and in 1843 he became Secretary of War. After Texas joined the Union he served in the legislature. Throughout these years he continued to practice medicine, facing many dangers in order to render aid. In 1853 Hill County was named in his honor." (Above taken from the History of Navarro Co.; http://www.rootsweb.com/~txnavarr/markers2.htm) There is a lengthy and interesting biography of Dr. Geo. W. Hill at this website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txnavarr/Bios/hill1.htm However, there are several inaccuracies in the bio which need to be considered. It was written and copyrighted in 1999 by Carl W. Matthews, Jr. POB 454 Roswell GA 30077 matthewscarl@hotmail.com Feb. 2003. Have corresponded with Carl Matthews re: errors in his article. He has sent me 11 pages for corrections and additions, which I am currently in the process of doing. Carl will be moving to Waxahachie, TX around March 10, 2003. April 6, 2003. Rec'd following email. "I have the deposition made by Cora (Bess) Dunn. I can send you a copy if you wish. The deposition was made for Lydia Margaret (Meek) Killian, My great-grandmother, filed in 1920 for her Civil War widows pension. Her husband was William Killian, son of Samuel Killian and Lucinda Hill. He died in 1919. Susanna Hill was Lucinda Hill's sister. The deposition speaks of "Wash Hill" and his place in Hill County, TX. It also speaks of Margaret Hill. Margaret Hill is Lydia's mother's, Rhoda (Langston) Meek's, sister Margaret (Langston) Hill. I have found two George Washington Hills. One born in 1814 and the other in 1830. Do you have an idea which is referred to? Robert Kimble RKi4222422@aol.com"	George Washington HILL, MD
244	Giles and Agnes had ten children.	Giles HILL
245	Originally buried on his own property on Cedar Creek, Green W. Hill, along with his father were reinterred in 1975 in the old cemetery in LaGrange, TX, due to a manmade lake project by the State of TX which flooded the original gravesites. The marker in LaGrange reads: "Asa Hill c. 1784 - c. 1845 Veteran of the Texas Revolutionary Army and the Battle of Mier His son Dr. Green Washington Hill May 27, 1812 - Sept. 20, 1844 Remains removed in 1975 from family plot beside Cedar Creek in lake site and reburied here." From Troup Co. & Her People, Vol. II, #4, by Martha S. Anderson, Oct. 1982, pg. 31; "Dr. Green W. Hill m. Susan C. Webb on April 4, 1834, Thomas W. Stanley, J.P."	Green Washington HILL, M.D.
246	Majors: Cemetery Book 2 p 162	Harriett HILL
247	Henry served as an Ensign from CT in the Revolutionary War 1775-1779.	Henry HILL
248	Note in manuscript by Ralph H. Willis, 1603 University Heights, Cullowhee, NC 28723, phone (704) 293-5044, (still valid in 1998). "Henry Hill. Died while a student at Irving College. His death caused by drinking cold water after becoming overheated while driving the cattle to pasture." No dates given. Another researcher had this information on his death; "Died young caused by drinking cold water from the Aunt Nellie Spring while overheated." (per Sandra Barnes Shea; email: SANDRASHEA@webtv.net)	Henry HILL
249	Henry, born Feb. 7, 1774 at Near The Tar, Edgecomb Co., NC, married Susannah Swales Savage Jan. 6, 1796 in Edgecomb Co., NC. Susannah was the widow of Sterling Savage and had one daughter, Britannia. She also had two stepsons, Jesse & Sterling Savage who went with her and Henry from NC to TN. Two other children, Loveless and Elizabeth Savage, died young. Henry and Susannah had seven children; Ervin, Isaac, Asa, Jesse P., Melchesedec, Lucinda and Hugh Lawson White Hill. Henry (often called "Harry") led a party of 30 men into the TN wilderness to reconnoiter land on which to settle. Some of this land was obtained through land grants from the state of NC, since what came to be called TN was at one time part of NC. Henry's land was located in what became known as Hill's Creek. Henry moved to Georgia around 1800 and to Hill's Creek in 1802. His biography states he built a home near a large Indian mound and also a grist mill on Hill's Creek. He was largely uneducated, but he could read and write, had a high degree of sincerity and a pleasing personality. He was held in high esteem by his neighbors and was elected as one of two representatives to represent White, Overton, and Jackson Counties in the 7th General Assembly. It is said he was a natural leader and came to be elected in 1807 to three consecutive terms to the TN House of Representatives. He named his 7th (legitimate) child for a good friend, Hugh Lawson White, a member of the House from Knoxville, TN, whom Henry met during his own tenure as a Representative. During this same period he became friends with another member of the House, Joseph McMinn for whom McMinnville, TN is named. Henry was instrumental in choosing the town's name in honor of his friend, who later became governor of TN. Henry, while married to Susannah, met young Polly Johnston sometime around 1808. It is said that Polly was a friend of Susannah's and of Virginia Dearing (wife of Henry's son, Hugh Lawson White Hill, the TN legislator) and had been persuaded to come to TN from GA with the Hills. She was sixteen and was 13 yr. younger than Henry and 20 yrs. younger than Susannah. Henry began a long term extramarital affair with Polly resulting in six children being born to them; Harriet, Sally, George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Carroll, and Elenza Grundy Hill. It was apparently common knowledge in the community and, in fact, the two families of Henry lived next door to each other and children by both women were entered into the family Bible. (I have a photocopy of the pages from this Bible which clearly lists the children of both women on the same page) A note of interest. When Henry J. A. Hill was still a child, he was walking over a hot tar pit of his father's, when a board broke and caused one leg and foot to be severely burned. His leg was left twisted and scarred for life. In his later years it became infected and was amputated by Dr. Wallace Estill, assisted by Henry's son, Dr. Melchesedek Hill, a surgeon in McMinnville. The infection was not stemmed, however, and nine days later Henry died, August 1, 1825, at the age of 51. His old headstone has been replaced by a more modern one in recent yrs. in the Center Hill Cemetery on Hill's Creek. It reads: "Henry J. A. Hill Feb. 7, 1775 Aug. 1, 1825" His old headstone is still nearby and reads: "Henry J. A. Hill Son of Isaac and Lucy Hill was born 7th Jan. 1775, died 1st of Aug. 1825"	Henry John Alexander HILL
250	Named after his uncle, Henry J. A. Hill.	Henry John Alexander HILL