Person:Robert Hill (31)

Robert Hill Jr. was a primitive Baptist preacher. The cabin in which Robert and Elizabeth built and raised their family was still intact in the late 1980's. It was located off the Westfield-Pilot Mtn. Highway, on Chinquapin Creek, which feeds into the larger Tom's Creek. The old Hill Cabin has been an object of much research by the Surry County Historical Society. The cabin had one room below and one above, with three additions built on through the years. The rock chimney was not built on the outside, as was customary, but on the inside. Logs had been put together in an old, but common way, peaked at the top but square at the bottom on the joining ends. But this cabin was put together with pegs - the one that held the doorjamb was one and one-half inches in diameter. The floors also had been pegged. A few nails were found that were hand-wrought, in use until about 1810. He was buried at Hills Presbyterian Chapel, Surry Co., NC.

1. ↑ Jomartin1@@worldnet.att.net. Research by Mary Jo Martin. (Dec. 2005).
2. ↑ Jomartin1@@worldnet.att.net. Research by Mary Jo Martin. (Dec. 2005).
3. ↑ Jomartin1@@worldnet.att.net. Research by Mary Jo Martin. (Dec. 2005).