The Hill Families of Jasper County, Missouri

THOMAS HILL, dealer in grain, live stock, coal, and manufacturer uf lime, senior member of the firm of Hill & Sou, doing business at Sarcoxie, Carlton, Jasper, and Carthage, ship annually 200,000 bushels of grain, 40,- 000 of corn, 100,000 bushels of lime, besides shipping hundreds of cattle and hogs, and handling tons of coal. This firm of Hill & Son are among the most successful and energetic business men of the Southwest, and has been built up by strict and untiring vigilance, guided by keen business foresight. The Hill stock is of English origin, and although as a family they have been careless in preserving geneological records, the scattering remnants of historical data and the testimony of the now numerous branches of the family conspire to show that they all sprang from a common English parentage. While their history on the other side of the water cannot be traced, there is historic evidence of their settlement in America in the landing of the Pilgrims as the name of Hill is known to exist among the "101," of the Majflower crew. From this time down to the last century the lineal lines are difficult to trace, and given names can be followed only to an English origin. The grandfather of the subject of this sketch was an Englishman by birth, whose given name was Thomas, and is thought to have come to America during the revolutionary period. His son nathan is known to have settled in Maryland, and is the father of Thomas Hill. He removed to Ohio. Thomas Hill was born in Miami county, Ohio, June 20, 1821, where he was raised and educated. His mother was Frances Williams, a native of Virginia. Thomas Hill was married in 1842 to Mary A. Tetter, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1828 of German descent. Their children are Davis, Cyntha, William, and Orange Judd. In 1856 he removed to Livingstone county, Illinois, engaging in farming and stock-raising. In 1876 he became a citizen of Jasper county, where he has been actively engaged ever since in the stock, grain, and coal business with his son William, who conducts the lime business with Mr. Hubb. Nathan Hill, his father, lived on the same farm for sixty years in Ohio, and was the oldest settler of the county, and was actively engaged in the French and Indian wars. Mr. Thomas Hill is a deacon of the Congregational Church of Carthage, Missouri, and Lis wife is also a member and untiring worker, and both command the highest esteem and respect as citizens and earnest Christian, philanthropic people.

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DR. GEORGE R. HILL, physician and surgeon, was born in 1841 in Madison county, Missouri. His father, John, was a native of Cumberland county, England, who came to America in 1829, and settled in Madison county, Missouri. His mother's maiden name was Jane Robinson, also a native of England. Dr. George R. Hill was reared and educated in Madison county, Missouri, and studied medicine under Dr. J. C. Griffith, of Fredericktown, Missouri. He attended lectures at the St. Louis Medical College. He was in the Confederate army from 1861 until 1864 as a soldier. At the battle of Potosi, Missouri, he was wounded and taken prisoner, and remained on parole until 1864, when he joined the army again as assistant surgeon, and remained until the surrender of Lee, He practiced medicine in Madison county until 1872. In 1873 he came to St. Clair county, Missouri, and in 1876 removed to Carthage, where he has remained in practice. Since coming to Jasper county he has served two years as county physician. He is a member of the medical society and also of the Masonic order. He was married in October, 1871, to Miss Maud Belle Sandidge, of Fredericktown, a native of Mississippi. They have three children living and two deceased. Like most of the Hills whom we have had the pleasure of meeting, the doctor is of English ancestry, and belongs. to a sturdy and long-lived race.

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PETER HILL, dealer in sadd'es, harness, and boot and shoe-findings, Carthage, Missouri, was born in 1832 in Franklin county, Virginia. His father's given name was Wilson, a native of Virginia, as well as his mother, whose maiden name was Nancy Winfrey. The Hill race probably sprang from a common stock in England prior to the Revolutionary War, and at this day and age scarcely a township can be found in the United States but that possesses a Hill. Peter Hill's ancestors are no exception to this general rule. The Hill race, so far as observation and experience extends, represents them as a strong, hearty people, full of enterprise and good morals. In stature they are stout and of good height. Peter Hill was reared in Virginia, and learned the saddlery business in Christiansburg, Virginia, where he afterwards Engaged in general merchandise for some years. In 1861he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he remained about one year, after which he went to Peoria, Illinois, where he remained until 1866. He came to Jasper county in 1867 and settled in Carthage, and in that year purchased a house and lot, where he is now engaged in business.

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T. W. HILL.

Prominently identified with the mining interests of Jasper county,;\Iissouri, is T. '. Hill, an old and experienced workman, who is one-half owner and superintendent of the Mount Ararat mine, located on property belonging to Thomas Conners. This mine promises to yield a fine class of ore, and seven shafts have been sunk, a one-hundred-ton mill put in operation and the excavations have reached two hundred and forty-six feet, although only opened in Noveiuljer, 1899.

Mr. Hill comes of a family of ministers of the Methodist church, his father being Rev. John Hill, his grandfather. Rev. Joshua Hill, and his great-grandfather. Rev. Green Hill, all natives of the locality near Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. Hill, of this review, was educated in Triune and attended the Springhill. Tennessee, Academy, where he Ijecame acquainted with the lady who later became his wife. She was Miss Ada V. Paschall, of Oxford, North Carolina, and was educated in Triune, Tennessee. A family of six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hill, and of these two daughters are married, and two daughters and one son are still at home.

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