Sullivan-Bradford County PA Archives Biographies.....Hill, Elgeroy Willard 1849 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
  ELGEROY WILLARD HILL. - Among the veterans of the Civil war who went from
  Susquehanna county none bears a more honorable record or is held in higher
  esteem by his neighbors then the subject of this sketch, who is a citizen of Fox
  township, his post-office being Shunk. When a boy of only thirteen years his
  youthful patriotism was aroused by stories of the war then raging between the
  north and the south, and on March 1, 1863, he enlisted and remained in the
  service until the close of hostilities in 1865. His regiment, the Fiftieth
  Pennsylvania, in which he was a member of Company G, First Division, Second
  Brigade, was assigned to the Army of the Potomac under General Burnside of the
  Ninth Corps.
  
      Mr. Hill was in many of the famous battles, among them those of the
  Wilderness, Vicksburg, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Knoxville and Petersburg,
  Virginia. He was one of the regiment that seized the Weldon Railroad and blew up
  Fort Hull and he also had the good fortune to be present at the surrender of
  General Lee at Richmond, which was virtually the close of the war, and saw those
  two great commanders, Grant and Lee, as they met preparatory to arranging terms
  of surrender. Mr. Hill was badly wounded in the ankle at the battle of the
  Wilderness, but otherwise escaped injury. He was honorably discharged September
  2, 1865, with a good record as a brave and faithful soldier.
  
      The subject of this review was born at Butternuts, Otsego county, New York,
  November 11, 1849. His father, Pardon Hill, was a native of Connecticut and
  served with honor in both the Mexican and Civil wars. He was a son of David
  Hill, who was a son of Russell Hill, the latter a soldier of the Revolutionary
  war, who was killed at Stony Point. Pardon Hill married Miss Nancy Hopkins,
  whose father, Cyrus Hopkins, served in the war of 1812, and who shot and killed
  General Brock just before the battle of Queenstown, Canada. Cyrus Hopkins
  father, Stephen Hopkins, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
  
      Pardon Hill and wife had three children: Elsie Ann (Mrs. Avery), of Lycoming
  county, Pennsylvania; Elgeroy, our subject; and Cyrus Hopkins, who died at South
  Delta, Maryland. The father died when seventy-six years of age and the mother
  when forty-four.
  
      From early childhood our subject was thrown on his own resources, and what
  schooling he received was obtained after he left the army. He, however, has
  improved all his opportunities and is well posted on the current literature of
  the day. On August 29, 1875, he was married at Grover, Bradford county, to Miss
  Sarah May Thomas, who was born in South Wales, a daughter of Benjamin and
  Elizabeth (Thomas) Thomas, the latter of whom died at Landors, Swansea, South
  Wales, when sixty years of age. The father is still living and is seventy-five
  years old. There were thirteen children in this family, of whom six died in
  childhood, the others being: Herbert, Sarah May, Margaret, John, William,
  Benjamin and Elizabeth. Mrs. Hill was reared and educated in South Wales and was
  twenty-four years of age when she came to Pennsylvania.
  
      In 1875 Mr. Hill settled on a farm on which he now lives, and which, under
  his care, has become a valuable property. He has on it a commodious and
  comfortable house, good barns and other out-buildings, a cider-mill and a fine
  orchard. The whole place shows evidence of being in the hands of a competent
  manager. Mr. Hill is a Republican in politics and a member of the G. A. R. He
  has served in various township offices, among them being those of road
  commissioner and school director. While inheriting from his chivalrous ancestors
  the warlike spirit and love of country which led them so often to risk their
  lives in the service of their country, our subject is a man of peace, and none
  rejoices more than he that the recent war with Spain was so speedily ended. He
  is perhaps more interested in the fact that he and his father have been noted
  hunters and lovers of sport than in any other matter. He has kept a record of
  the deer which he has himself killed, and they number one hundred and
  twenty-eight. Mr. and Mrs. Hill have one child, Herbert Telford, born November
  28, 1876. He was educated at the State Normal school and has taught one term.
  
  
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              Extracted from: 
                  
                History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania
                by Thomas J. Ingham
                  
                   Compendium of Biography
                  
             The Lewis Publishing Company
                Chicago: 1899
   
  
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