Terrell-Stewart County GaArchives Biographies.....Hill, John Calhoun 1870 - living in 1913 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 October 20, 2004, 12:50 pm Author: William Harden p. 852 JOHN CALHOUN HILL. Having accomplished a satisfactory work as a general farmer, acquiring a competency to live upon, John Calhoun Hill is now living retired from active business cares, near Dawson, enjoying to the utmost the well-merited reward of his many years of unremitting toil. He was born, in 1851, in Stewart county, Georgia, a son of Isaac and Emily (Stewart) Hill, of whom further notice may be found on another page of this volume, in connection with the sketch of Mr. Hill's brother, Andrew J. Hill. John C. Hill was reared to a strong, self-reliant manhood on the parental farm, obtaining his education in the rural schools of his neighborhood. He became familiar with the various branches of agriculture while assisting his father on the homestead, and naturally adopted farming as his occupation. Mr. Hill did not become a landholder until after his marriage, his first piece of property having been a tract of land in Stewart county, on which he lived and labored industriously until 1879. Selling out in that year, he bought a farm in Quitman county, and was there a resident for nine years. Disposing of that property, Mr. Hill came to Terrell county, and having bought land four miles west of Dawson, was there actively and successfully engaged in general farming until 1912, in the meantime increasing the acreage of his farm by purchase. He now occupies a farm lying near his original estate and is living retired from active work. Mr. Hill married, in 1873, Sarah Frances Bismuke, a daughter of William H. and Maria (Green) Bismuke, pioneer settlers of Stewart county, where both spent the closing years of their long and useful lives, Mrs. Bismuke attaining the venerable age of four score and ten years. Mr. and Mrs. Hill are the parents of eight children, namely: William Isaac, Miles Green, Addie Virginia, Alma, Pearl, John Carter, Emily May, and Fanny Ethel. Additional Comments: From: A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA BY WILLIAM HARDEN VOLUME II ILLUSTRATED THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO AND NEW YORK 1913 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/terrell/bios/gbs360hill.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb