Person:Henry Hill (52)

Information on Henry Hill

From Biography of William A. Hill, by Pamela Safriet:

Henry Hill, son of Thomas Hill, and father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Lincoln county, North Carolina, on the 26th of October, 1809. In the year 1820, when eleven years old, he accompanied his grandfather, John Walker, from North Carolina to Missouri. His grandfather settled in Cape Girardeau county, Missouri, and there Mr. Hill was raised. He had gone to school three months in North Carolina. After coming to Missouri he had poor advantages for obtaining and education. The schools were held at irregular intervals in log school-houses, with puncheon floors and slat benches. He went to school and Cape Girardeau county, two terms of three months each. After growing up, he spent four years in the lead mines, in Washington county, Missouri. On the 9th of January, 1829, he married Fanny WELTY, who was born in Cape Girardeau county, Missouri, in 1821 (1811??). Her father, Daniel Welty, was born in North Carolina, and when a young man went to Kentucky, and there married Mary HENDRICKS. He afterward came to Missouri, and was one of the early settlers of Cape Girardeau county, making his home there while the Indians were still numerous. Henry Hill lived in Cape Girardeau county, Missouri, till 1874, and then moved to Illinois, and has since resided four miles north-east of Trenton.

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