Person:David Hill (32)

1810 U.S. Census shows David Hill living in Livingston Co., KY. Included in household are : 4 males under age 10, one male 26-45, one female under 10, one female 26-45, and one slave. David Hill bound to Hugh Andrew to be taught the wheelwright trade, to be schooled for 1 yr. (Minutes of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, Iredell Co., NC; Bk I:79 22 Nov 1791) David and Hannah were charter members, and David, an elder, of Bethany (later Marion, still later First, now First United) Presbyterian Church, Marion, KY. Came to what was then Livingston Co., KY, around 1797-98 along with the Elders, Mayes and other families. The Hills and Elders settled south of what is now Marion, KY, and David Hill married Hannah Elder, daughter of William Elder in 1800, according to the records at Smithland, KY. They settled about one mile southwest of what is now Marion, KY, where, according to the records at Frankfort, David Hill was granted a tract of 200 acres in 1798. They had six children, Anthony, William, Ephriam, Margaret, Mary and Lurana. David Hill later sold this Kentucky tract to his youngest son, Ephriam, and moved to Illinois. From an interview with Ephriam W. Hill in the Crittenden Press, Aug. 5, 1897: " Ephriam Hill's father, David Hill, was a native of North Carolina. When a very young man, nineteen or twenty years old, he came westward into the region of the Holston River, in East Tennessee. There he fell in with one James richie and came with him to this country (KY). Richie selected for his future home the place where the late N.B. Clement lived and died, and there young David assisted him to build a log cabin, the first home, so far as known, ever built for human habitation within the present limits of Crittenden Co. That was about the year of 1795. David was then unmarried; he looked around and selected for himself the place where the subject of this sketch now lives, and for his father, Ephraim Hill, he selected the place where Col. Adams now lives, well known as the George Long place. He then went back to North Carolina and assisted his father to move out, and they settled on their respective places as selected by David; but before his death, the father moved on to the same place with David, occupying a separate home, where he remained during the remainder of his life. David Hill married Hannah Elder in the closing years of the last century. Ephriam W. was the third or fourth child of this marriage in a family of six, three boys, Anthony, William, and Ephriam and three girls, Margaret, Mary, and Lurana. About the year 1840, David Hill sold out to his son Ephriam W., and went to Illinois." David Hill was appointed administrator of his father's (Ephriam, Sr.) estate, 10 Dec 1810. (Livingston Co. Court Order, Bk E, pg. 348)