BIOGRAPHY:  William W. Hill, Cherokee County, Texas

Contributed by Dr. Alma Moore Freeland
Submitted by East Texas Genealogical Society
P. O. Box 6967, Tyler, TX 75711

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Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas
Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, 
And Many Early Settled Families.
Illustrated
Chicago: F.A. Battey & Company
1889 
Pages 396-397

WILLIAM W. HILL 

William W. Hill, was born in Wilson county, Tennessee, March 21, 1835  
but with his father came to Texas and located in Cherokee county, in 
1855, where he remained, engaged in farming, until 1869.  In August, 
1861, however, he entered the Confederate army as Lieutenant of 
Company C. Eleventh Texas infantry, and in 1863, was promoted to a 
captaincy.  He served with valor all through the war, and returned to
his home the June after the final surrender.  He was married in 
December, 1865; after leaving Cherokee county he removed to Cooke 
county, Texas, and after a residence there of six years, bought his 
tract of 260 acres, which he has taken from the raw prairie, and put
125 acres under cultivation.  He has also erected good buildings on 
his premises, and has well stocked his farm.  Mr. Hill has served as
Tax-collector for Cooke county, having enjoyed the confidence and 
respect of his fellow citizens for many years, and having been by 
them elected to that position of trust and responsibility.  As a 
member of the Masonic fraternity, he holds the respect of all his
brethren.

The father of William W. Hill was John J., a native of South Carolina,
who moved to Tennessee and there resided for four years, and then 
moved to Alabama, and back again to Tennessee, but eventually, in 1855, 
came to Texas, and settled in Cherokee county, where he died in 1867,
at the age of sixty-seven years.

Mary, a daughter of William Mullins, was married to John J. Hill and 
became the mother of eleven children, named as follows - Nancy J. 
(married Isaac N. Guthrie), Elizabeth (married Elijah Meadow), William
W., Mary (married to Steven Stadler), Rebecca (married first to James 
Stadler, and afterward to P. L. Clayton), Martha (who was married to
Eli Fitch), Susan (married to Thomas Fitch), Sarah (married to Thomas
Powell), Victoria (married to George Fitch), John T. and Matthew.  By 
a second wife Mr. Hill had born to him - Tennessee, who was married 
to Peter O'Reilly; Georgia A., married to Wood Goodwin, Thomas, Laura, 
M and William A. Robinson.

William W. Hill has been twice married, his first wife having been
Amanda, a daughter of Elisha Mills, of Georgia, who died in Texas in
1874.  To this union were born Overton L. and Mary S.  The second 
wife of Mr. Hill is named Missouri and is a daughter of Harmon Rowe, 
of Georgia.  To this last marriage has been born one child William T.  
Mr. Hill is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and is held in the 
highest esteem by the brethren of the ancient order, as well as by 
the members of the community in which he lives.