Greene County AlArchives Biographies.....Hill, Albert C. April 1 1849 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    ALBERT C. HILL, circuit court clerk of Greene county, and a resident of
Eutaw, was born near Clinton, that county, April 1, 1849. He is a son of Jesse
and Eliza (Carpenter) Hill and a grandson of Benjamin Hill, who was a native of
Nash county, N. C., and who emigrated to Alabama at an early day, settling near
Spring Hill. His occupation was that of a farmer. Jesse Hill was the youngest
son in a large family of children and was, as was his father, a native of Nash
county, N. C. He was born in 1813, and came to Alabama with his parents when a
child. He was reared on a farm, served as tax collector of Greene county and
also as justice of the peace for several years. He and his wife were the parents
of thirteen children, ten sons and three daughters, six of whom are living,
viz.: Newton, a practicing physician of Pickensville, Pickens county, Ala.;
Albert C.; William W., a resident of Eutaw; Phillip E., a farmer of Pickens
county; Lida, wife of Theodore Watrous, who is enagaged as a sugar and fruit
grower in British Honduras, and Mattie, unmarried, and living with Albert C.
Three died in infancy and the names of those who died later in life were John
T., Samuel M., James M. and Charles D. The father of the children was a farmer
all his life. Their mother died in 1863 near Clinton, Greene county. He was then
married to Mrs. Cynthia (Hill) Head, a native of Georgia, residing near Atlanta.
Mr. Hill died near Clinton in 1873, his widow surviving until July, 1892. Albert
C. Hill was reared on a farm and educated at the school of Clinton. He began
life for himself as a clerk in a dry goods store owned by Cleveland Bros., at
Eutaw, remaining in their employ several years. He then went to Burton's Hill in
1875, and opened a store of his own, which he conducted till 1877, when he was
elected sheriff of Greene county. At the expiration of his term as sheriff he
moved to his farm near Clinton. In 1892 he was elected circuit clerk of Greene
county, which office he holds at the present time. He is a member of the Masonic
fraternity, and he and his wife are members of the Christian church . Mr. Hill
was married in 1876, to Miss Mamie E. Scears, a native of Greene county, by whom
he had five children, three of whom are living: William W., Albert P., Mamie;
Nena and John S., deceased. Mrs. Hill died in September, 1883, and in March,
1886, Mr. Hill married Miss Callie Bray, a native of Greene county, born 1858.
She is a daughter of Coswell Bray, formerly a planter of Greene county, who
served as county treasurer of his county for seven years. He died in 1886. His
widow survives him and lives in Greene county.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1045
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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