In a message dated 4/9/99 6:45:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, NDFENSE writes:
I would appreciate it if you could look up some info for me in the
Clinton
Co. book. My g-g-grandparents were Thomas Hill and Elizabeth Deal Hill,
who
I believe are listed on page 717. They had a son named William, also
listed
on page 717. If these are the right relatives, they should have had
a
second
son named George Washington Hill, born Dec 1851. I do not see him in
your
index, however. By 1895 he was already in Texas, married with children. I
am trying to find a link between him and his parents, and information about
the parents and THEIR parents. What I have so far is very sketchy, so any
help you can provide would be wonderful! I am stuck at this point on my
lineage. I thank you in advance....Terry Delony, Austin, TX
I am cross posting
this to the Clinton County mail list for other
researchers. Page 717 is a biography of Rev. Jesse Hill I have transcribed it
below.
Rev. JESSE HILL. Few men of central Indiana are as widely and favorably
known to both young and old as the subject of this sketch, whose venerable
farm for a number of years past has been a familiar figure on the streets of
Frankfort. Rev. Jesse Hill was born in Randolph county. S. C., September 8,
1819, the son of Thomas and Sarah (Wright) Hill, both natives of the state
named The year that Mr. Hill first saw the light of day witnessed the
emigration of his parents to Putnam county, Ind, where the father died a few
years after locating his family in their new home, in what was then a
comparatively unsettled country. The mother. a most excellent lady of much
more than ordinary intellectuality, reared the seven dependent children to
maturity, although some years after her husband's death she became the wife
of Judge John Sigley, of Greencastle. She departed this life in the year
1844, honored and lamented by all who knew her. Thomas Hill was a successful
man for that day, and a most exemplary member of the old Christian church, of
which his wife was also a communicant. The following are the names of the
children of Thomas and Sarah Hill; Elizabeth, Rebecca, Martha, Mary, Celia,
Gillie and Jesse, the last named being the youngest member of the family, and
all but him have long since been called from the scenes of their earthly life.
The early years of Jesse Hill were spent in Putnam county, and while still
quite young, owing to the death of his father, he was obliged to contribute
of his small earnings, as a common laborer, to the support of his sisters and
widowed mother. From his youth he manifested a profound interest in
religion, and early became identified with the Methodist church, the local
ministry of which he entered before his twenty-first year, and shortly
there-after engaged in the active work of the itinerancy in the Northwestern
conference. His first regular work as an itinerant was on the old North
Salem circuit, which he served one year, and from there he was transferred to
the Vigo circuit, over which he exercised pastoral con-trol for the same
length of time. Additional to the above, Mr. Hill. during the course of his
long and useful ministry, extending over a period of fifty years, had charge
of the fol-lowing circuits: Rock Creek, Burlington, Frankfort, Camden,
Lebanon, Darlington and Dayton, in all of which his work was most acceptable,
resulting in the building up of local congregations, and in inducing hundreds
of persons to abandon the ways of sin and seek the higher way leading to
peace and holiness.
Mr. Hill was married in Frankfort on the twenty-eightb of August, 1853, to
Mary F. Barner, who was born in the county of' Clin-ton in the year 1836, the
daughter of John Barner--a union blessed with the birth of four children:
Emma, Earl, Maria and William, all deceased but the last named. who is a hoot
and shoe merchant of Frankfort, and ex-county surveyor. While a resident of
Pine Village, Warren county, Ind., when an order came from Gov. Morton to a
couple of residents of that place to recruit a company for the Union service,
and whose efforts in that direction resulted in failure, Mr. Hill took charge
of the matter, and within three days had one hundred men enrolled and in
readiness to go forth and battle for the nation's honor. These men were
organized into a company at La Fayette, and Mr. Hill was unanimously elected
captain, a position he held a short time, being compelled to resign his
commission in about two mouths by reason of an injury received by a fall. He
was then chosen chaplain of the regiment, and as such served about seven
months, when he resigned and returned to his home. In every relation of
life, Rev. Hill has been characterized by integrity of purpose and kindness
of heart, thus chaining to him by his genial traits those with whom he has
come in contact. His work in the ministry was marked by an enthusiasm which
showed him to be fully alive to the responsibility of the sacred calling; his
pulpit efforts were able and convincing, and the amount of good accomplished
during the years consecrated to the service of the Master will only be known
in that Great Day when every man will be rewarded ''according as his works
shall be." Mr. Hill was also a remarkable singer. and he attributes a portion
of his success in the ministry to this fact.
Transcribed by Chris Brown from pages 717-718 of "A Portrait And Biographical
Record of Boone and Clinton Counties, Ind.," published in 1895 by A.W. Bowen
& Co. Chicago.