Taylor County GaArchives Photo document.....Hill Family Cemetery Rededicated April 15 2004
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From The Butler Herald, April 15, 2004

Hill Family Meets to Clean and Rededicate Hill Family Cemetery

Saturday about 25 members of the Hill family gathered at Archibald Hill 
cemetery on Prosperity Road to rededicate the cemetery and a new monument 
giving information about the family and the cemetery.  There are 15 graves 
marked only with rocks as head and foot stones.  Remants of a stone wall can 
still be seen.  The cemetery had all but been taken over by woods and vines.  
Family members cleaned it, installed a new fence and placed a monument.

Hill family members from California, Florida and all over Georgia watched as 
Haines Hill, of Dahlonega, led a ceremony of dedication.  After the ceremony, 
some of the attendees shared memories of visiting the cemetery as children.

According to family genealogist Keith Hill, Archibald Hill brought his wife, 
Samantha Barfield, and their three children to the vicinity in about 1830.  
The family grew to 12 children.  He purchased the land where the cemetery is 
located in 1851, when it was still in Marion County.  Samantha died around 
1860, and he remarried Catherine Barfield Watson.  Three more children were 
added to the family.  Archilbald and Catherine died around 1882.  It is 
believed that Archibald and Samantha Hill are buried in the family plot.  Joel 
Hill, their son who died of measles in 1862 in the hospital in Richmond, VA 
while serving in the Confederate Army, is also believed to be interred in the 
cemetery.  The identities of the others buried there are presently unknown.


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