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    THOMAS CARTER HILL, prominent Physician and Surgeon, son of Thomas H. and
Miranda (Gregory) Hill, natives, respectively, of the States of Virginia and
North Carolina, was born in Green (now Hale) County, this State, November 14,
1839. After acquiring a thorough preliminary education at some of the leading
colleges of the State, he, at the age of nineteen, began the study of medicine,
and pursued it successively through medical institutions of learning in New
York, Boston, and Philadelphia, graduating from Jefferson Medical College, in
the latter city, in 1860. Early in 1861, young Hill enlisted as a private
soldier in the Fifth Alabama Regiment, and was in a short time promoted to
Assistant-Surgeon. In 1864, after having followed the fortunes of his regiment
through its various campaigns, he was transferred to the Valley District of
Virginia, as Medical Director, with the rank of a full Surgeon, and remained in
that department to the close of the war.

    Returning to Alabama, at the close of hostilities, Dr. Hill first located at
Dayton, Marengo County, in the practice of medicine, and remained there until
1884, at which time he moved into Oxford. Since coming here, he has devoted his
time to real estate and other business enterprises, to the exclusion of the
profession. As a physician, Dr. Hill stood very high. He was, probably, as well
taught in the science of materia medica as any man in Alabama. Not satisfied
with the most thorough training possible at the finest institutions of learning
in America, he, in 1870, studied arduously under the greatest instructors in
Europe; and it is to the loss of the profession, that he has withdrawn from the
practice.

    Dr. Hill was married in Marengo County, May, 1870, to Miss Margaret Lee,
daughter of Columbus W. and Elizabeth (Parker) Lee, and has had born to him five
children: Columbus L., Thomas C., Margaret, Myra C. and Harry.

    The Hon. Columbus W. Lee, native of Georgia, was many years a member of the
Alabama Legislature, and was one of the most prominent men of his day. He was a
Pierce and King presidential elector in 1852 and a Douglas elector in 1860. He
opposed secession and canvassed the State for Douglas, although he went with his
State in her subsequent efforts in behalf of the Southern Confederacy. He was a
member of the Constitutional Convention of 1865, and made the race for Congress
that same year against Joseph W. Taylor, and was beaten. He was an original
speaker and the master of thought and sarcasm. He died in 1868.

    Thomas H. Hill, father to the subject of this sketch, migrated in early
manhood to North Carolina, there married, and in 1812 settled in Green County,
Ala., where he became an extensive planter. He reared a family of two sons and
three daughters. He died in 1860, at the age of seventy-eight. His father,
Joseph Hill, was a native of England, and came to America prior to the
Revolution and settled in Culpeper County, Va.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
MINERAL BELT.

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