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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  DOCTOR HILL, farmer, P. O. Hutsonville, whose portrait appears in this work,
is one of the worthy pioneers of Crawford County. He settled in what is now
Hutsonville Township, with his family, in the year 1818, after having resided
for a period of nearly two years in what is now Sullivan County, Ind. He was
born June 28, 1796, in Randolph County, N. C., a son of John and Rachel
(Sargent) Hill. The father was a farmer, born and raised on the same place our
subject was, and died in 1849, aged about eighty-two years. The mother was also
a native a North Carolina, and died in this county, at the advanced age of
ninety-three years. The parents were blessed with nine children. The educational
facilities of our subject's younger days granted him but a meager education in
the old subscription schools. His early life was spent in farming pursuits, and
as necessity required he also engaged at shoe-making and blacksmithing, and at
the advanced age of eighty-six years, he made two plows, upon which implement he
claims to be the original inventor of many substantial improvements. He was
first married in his native county, in 1815, to Nancy Boyd, born March 9, 1797,
 in Guilford County, N. C., a daughter of James Boyd. She died in 1825, leaving
a family of five children—Sargent, Elizabeth, Rachel, Mary and  Nancy. The
second marriage of our subject occurred November 13, 1828, in this county. He
wedded Cynthia Smith, born July 2, 1795, on the South Branch of the Potomac,
Virginia, a daughter of Jacob B. and Hannah (Hand) Smith, he a native of
Germany, and she of Virginia. Mrs. Hill died in January, 1872. When he first
came to this county, our subject purchased 160 acres of land of the Government,
but being unable to pay for the same, retained only one-fourth of it, an act of
Congress compelling him to relinquish the balance. His present farm consists of
about 402 acres, which is given to general farming. Our subject has served this
county as a Commissioner, under the old system of county organization. In
politics he adheres to the Democratic principles of Thomas Jefferson, and he has
distinct recollections of the administration of that devoted espouser of the
cause of Colonial liberty.

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Extracted From:

HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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