Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Hill, Benjamin September 23, 1809 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Wayne Township
p. 787 & 788

Benjamin Hlll, eldest son of Benjamin and Martha (Cox) Hill, was born Sept. 
23, 1809, in Wayne County, Ind., and was married to Sarah, a daughter of David 
Hoover, a pioneer of 1806. Their children are---David H., Martha E., Albert 
G., Henry L., Anna C. and George W. Benjamin Hill resides on a well-cultivated 
farm three miles east of Richmond, where he has lived for more than forty-five 
years, and has followed farming the greater part of his life. His father, 
Benjamin Hill, was born in North Carolina. June 22, 1770, of English descent, 
and was married to Mary Jessup. Their children were---John, Sarah, Jacob, 
William, Joseph and Mary. He moved to Virginia in 1802, and in the autumn of 
1806 removed with his family to Indiana, and settled in the unbroken forest, 
about three miles east of Richmond, and was subjected to the hardships and 
privations incident to pioneer life. Shortly after coming to Wayne County his 
wife died, and he was afterward married to Martha Cox, who was born in 
Randolph County, N.C., Nov. 28, 1779, and came to Indiana in 1807. Their 
children were---Benjamin (our subject), Harmon, Rebecca, Ezra and Enos. 
Benjamin Hill, Sr., was extensively engaged in farming, and built the flour 
and saw-mills east of Richmond, long known as "Hill's Mills," which he managed 
successfully. He died Feb. 9, 1829, in his fifty-ninth year. Martha Hill, his 
widow, died Jan. 25, 1867, in the eighty-eighth year of her age.


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