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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

 E. B.HILL, deceased. Mr. Hill will be remembered by many who have lived in
Palestine as one of the best professors of music, especially leader and teacher
of brass bands; he was born February 22, 1825, in Liberty, Union County, Ind.
His father, Samuel Hill, was born in Kentucky; he died in Indiana. He was raised
among the Shakers in Ohio, and from them learned the hatter's trade.  He left
the society and married Nancy Hardman, who was the mother of eight children. Mr.
E. B. Hill was educated in Liberty, Ind. He studied medicine with a view of
becoming a physician, but being foiled in this hope, and being naturally
inclined to music, he made it the object of his life, and is well known in
Eastern Indiana and Crawford County as a competent teacher; to the latter place
he came in 1857, and there made the acquaintance of Miss Mary E. McGahey, and
made her his wife May 1, 1860. She was born November 25, 1831, and was the
mother of one child, Hattie, born January 12, 1861; she died March 17, 1880.
Mrs. Hill is living in a comfortable home provided by her late husband. Her
father, Allen McGahey, born September 6, 1797, died August 8, 1857. His father,
David McGahey, came to Palestine at an early day, and may be called a pioneer, a
scholar and minister of the United Christian Church, then called the New Light
Church. He was married November 24, 1796, to Elizabeth Donnell; he died in
September, 1851. Mr. Allen McGahey was married August 7, 1828, to Harriet
Newland, born February 27, 1810, and died October 2, 1851. Mrs. Hill has
traveled in many parts of the United States.

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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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