TAYLOR COUNTY, GA - CIVIL WAR Hill, Slaughter Military Record (Widow Pension Mattie Theus Hill) ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Harriett Fuquay" Slaughter Hill Company F, 27th Georgia Infantry Private / Private Joined 9 Sep 1861 at Camp Stephens GA by J. S. Calhoun 7 Mar 1862 - Chimborazo Hospital Register Treated for Icterus 17 Sep 1862 - Regimental Roster show him absent due to wounds. 14 Dec 1862 - Roll of Prisoner of War, Paroled at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, MD shows he was captured at Antietam 17 Sep 186? 18 Dec 1862 - Register pf General Hospital, Petersburg, VA treated for V(?) Sclopti in 5 wounds and is listed as a paroled prisoner 22 Jan 1863 - Furloughed for 50 days 18 Mar 1863 - General Hospital, Petersburg, VA for V(?) Sclopti in R. hip. listed as a paroled prisoner 18 Apr 1863 Medical directors Office, Richmond, VA V(?) Sclop in R.Leg Jan - Apr of 1864 Slaughter Hill is shown as absent on wounded furlough. 18 Jul 1864 - last record shown has him on the Register of Floyd House and Ocmulgee Hospitals being treated in Macon GA for chronic conjunctivitis and general debility. ********************************************************************** MRS. MATTIE THEUS HILL WIDOW'S PENSION APPLICATION County Bibb Name Mrs. Mattie Theus Hill Widow of S Hill Date of Marriage Sept 30, 1900 Date of husband's death Jan 1st 1916 Company "F" Regiment 27th Ga Regiment Ga Inf Approved Dec 27 1937 H. Thos Gillen Director State Dept. Public Welfare, Atlanta, Sept 21 1937 Slaughter Hill enlisted as a private in Co. F, 27th Regt. Ga, Inf Sept. 9 1861. Wounded and captured, Sharpsburg, Md., Sept 17, 1862. Exchanged City Point, Va., Dec. 18, 1862. In Floyd House and Ocmulgee Hospitals, Macon, Ga., July 18, 1864, disposition"Ap 60 days." Drew pension Taylor County 1893 - 1916 Lillian Henderson Director Confederate Records Division Questions for Applicant State of Georgia Bibb County Mrs. Mattie Theus Hill states she is living at Hotel Fickling 510 Mulberry Street Macon Ga., and has been a citizen of the state of Georgia all her life. She give her date of birth as Sept. 9th, 1860 and is 77 years old. She married on Sept. 30th 1900 at Reynolds GA to S. Hill. Says she has not married since the death of her husband. Further states that her husband S Hill died in Reynolds Ga on Jan. 1st , 1916 while they were residing together and that they never resided apart and she is now a widow. She states that her husband drew a pension in Taylor County Ga for his CSA service. Sworn to and subscribed before Walter C. Stevens - Ordinary of Bibb County on the 27th day of August 1937. Signed by Mrs. Mattie Theus Hill. Witness for Mattie Theus Hill was W. A. Fickling who also resided at 510 Mulberry Street, Macon, Ga in Hotel Fickling. He states he has known Mrs. Hill for 30 years. He acknowledges she has been a resident of Georgia all her life and that he had known her husband, S. Hill , from his early childhood until S. Hill's death. He says that S. Hill died at Reynolds Ga on Jan. 1st 1916. He further states that Mattie and S. Hill were living together as man and wife and that they had never lived apart nor were they divorced. Sworn to and subscribed before Walter C. Stevens - Ordinary of Bibb County GA on 27th day of August 1937. Signed W. A. Fickling. H. Thos. Gillen sent a letter to Walter Stevens, Ordinary of Bibb County, Macon, Ga. stating that Mrs. Mattie Theus Hill widow of S. Hill was to be admitted to the pension roll of the State of Georgia for the month of January 1938 and thereafter, on the 27th day of December 1937. H. Thos. Gillen was the Director, Confederate Division, State Department of Public Welfare. Also included is a copy of the marriage certificate of Mattie Theus and S. Hill in 1900 with a letter from L. T. Peed Ordinary of Taylor Co GA to Mr. Elbert Hill, the son of S. Hill and Mattie Theus Hill, stating that his mother should not have little trouble (with the marriage certificate) getting a pension because S. Hill had drawn a pension from 1893 to 1916. If anyone has further information regarding this particular Slaughter Hill please submit it to the list. There are so many Slaughter Hill's it is difficult to determine exactly which one is being referred to at times. Thanks Harriett Fuquay