Thanks to Kay McAnally who found this letter to the Bastrop Advertisor from 1931 with this information
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Saturday, March 25
Wednesday, December 28
Painting of Ancestors
by
Libby
on Wed 28 Dec 2005 08:05 AM PST
Libby commissioned her favorite artist, George Rodrique, to paint the her ancestors from old photos. Take a look at the ... more » Saturday, October 29
Wednesday, October 5
Bastrop in 1887
by
Libby
on Wed 05 Oct 2005 03:01 PM PDT
http://www.birdseyeviews.org/zoom.php?city=Bastrop&year=1887&extra_info= Bastrop in 1887During what might have been his fourth tour of Texas, Augustus Koch paused to sketch ... more » Wednesday, April 20
Chuck Carrell's Bastrop Memories
by
Libby
on Wed 20 Apr 2005 08:24 PM PDT
Chuck writes: So, you are going to Bastrop! That is one of my favorite little towns.
I got out ... more »
Saturday, April 2
Thursday, March 17
More Preliminary Plans
by
Libby
on Thu 17 Mar 2005 12:46 PM PST
Open files attached. You must have Adobe Reader installed to view this.
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Preliminary House plans
by
Libby
on Thu 17 Mar 2005 12:36 PM PST
See attached File of site plans. Attached is a proposed site plan showing a new entry road which splits into an entry drive on axis with the house and a service drive that circles around the house and existing barn to the rear parking/service area. From there, the drive continues back to Hills Prairie Road. This arrangement allows direct access to the parking/service area and a formal approach to the house. The principal entrance is placed by the existing barn near Hills Prairie Road. 1 AttachmentsSunday, November 28
Chimney Rebuilt
by
Libby
on Sun 28 Nov 2004 01:42 PM PST
In 1884/1885 A. Wiley Hill died of a stroke, followed closely by his grandsons, Wiley Hill of pneumonia and Blanton Hill ... more »
Fire at Hills Prairie-Eva's Memoirs
by
Libby
on Sun 28 Nov 2004 12:51 PM PST
The winter of 05-06 we had some such big hogs. When Wylie Hill was about a week old, he workes ... more »
Saturday, November 27
Bastrop Academy, Later Bastrop Military Institute
by
Libby
on Sat 27 Nov 2004 09:17 AM PST
from Kesselus: The association formed on June 1, 1850 had the following directors: Samuel W. Simes, S.B. Morris, T.B.J. Hill ... more »
Memoirs of Mollie McDowell
by
Libby
on Sat 27 Nov 2004 08:53 AM PST
Shawn Pletsch lent me her copy of the memiors of Molly McDowell. She lived in Bastrop form 1843 to 1931. Memoirs were published by the Colonial Dames in 1978. She was well acquainted with the Wiley, Middleton, and T.B.J. Hills. more »
Thursday, November 25
T.B. J. Hill Moved His Plantation to Bastrop
by
Libby
on Thu 25 Nov 2004 03:04 PM PST
T.B.J. Hill moved from their plantation across the river from present-day Smithville for the education of t hir sons T.A.W. and ... more »
Old Homes of Bastrop
by
Libby
on Thu 25 Nov 2004 02:54 PM PST
George Orts, Carpenter, Antona Jung: Mason In 1857, a block north of the Nicholson House, Henry Crocheron, built a fine ... more »
Plantation Life at Christmas: Kesselus, page 128
by
Libby
on Thu 25 Nov 2004 10:37 AM PST
The quality for the rich and well-born is illustrated by a description of entertainment given in a bigographical sketch of ... more » Tuesday, November 16
Monday, October 18
Dr. Walter Reed
by
Libby
on Mon 18 Oct 2004 06:23 PM PDT
http://www.wramc.amedd.army.mil/welcome/history/
Check out this biography of Augustus Hill's classmate at U.V.A. Also, see his birthplace which is a smaller ... more » Friday, October 8
Augustus Middleton Hill M.D.
by
Libby
on Fri 08 Oct 2004 08:31 PM PDT
I found a letter with Harriet (Danow's) things that said the Dr. Augustus Hill ws a classmate of Dr. Walter ... more »
John Gilmer McGehee, from George M. McGehee of San Marcos, TX
by
Libby
on Fri 08 Oct 2004 08:13 PM PDT
Found this at Mom's. It was a letter to someone in our family by K. Hill Thomas, and taken from a history written by George McGhee of San Marcos Texas. He was the son of Thomas McGhee and was Wiley's nephew. more »
Monday, October 4
Friday, October 1
Text From National Register
by
Libby
on Fri 01 Oct 2004 10:41 AM PDT
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/Atlas/atlas_search_frame.html The Abraham Wiley Hill House is situated in an iron fence-enclosed house lot with numerous large live-oak trees across ... more » Sunday, September 12
Mysterious Incident Occurs In Hills Prairie
by
Libby
on Sun 12 Sep 2004 03:54 PM PDT
From the Historical Edition of the Bastrop Advertiser (1935) By Eva H. L. Karling (As related to me by Mrs. ... more »
History of Bastrop, Texas
by
Libby
on Sun 12 Sep 2004 12:38 PM PDT
The following History of Bastrop, Texas is taken from The New Handbook of Texas published by The Texas State Historical ... more »Sunday, August 29
Yard of the Dead: Eva's Memoirs
by
Libby
on Sun 29 Aug 2004 10:00 PM PDT
The country was full of Malaria, we had chills and fevers, and often there was yellow fever at Galveston, Houston ... more » Saturday, August 28
Cousins, From Eva's Memoirs
by
Libby
on Sat 28 Aug 2004 08:49 PM PDT
Cousin Eva was attending Miss McKay's Select School in Bastrop. Seh came home for the weekends and brought girls out ... more » Wednesday, August 25
Saturday, August 21
Duff-Hill Connection and Hubbards...Updated from Eva's Memoirs
by
Libby
on Sat 21 Aug 2004 11:52 PM PDT
Mom found this in a book: Abram Wiley had 4 kids ( Mary Parks, Sarah McGehee, Sarah Eva, and Augustus ... more »
A Beloved Physician, (From Ben's Memoirs)
by
Libby
on Sat 21 Aug 2004 09:26 AM PDT
Augustus Hill was Ben Hill's father, and a physician. I think that is why he moved to Bastrop. more »
My Mother, Sarah Elizabeth Holmes Hill, by Ben O. Hill
by
Libby
on Sat 21 Aug 2004 09:14 AM PDT
My father was sick with malaria as a soldier in the Louisiana Campaign (Civil War). The Hills and Holmeses ... more »
My Great-Grandmother Sarah Hill (by Ben O. Hill...my great grandfather)
by
Libby
on Sat 21 Aug 2004 08:55 AM PDT
Description of Sarah McGehee Hubbard Hill by her great grandson. Sounds very much like the story in "True Women". more »
Friday, August 20
Wednesday, August 18
Monday, August 16
It is ours!
by
Libby
on Mon 16 Aug 2004 05:10 PM PDT
We closed today, and we are now the proud new owners of Hill's Prairie. May it remain in the family for all generations.
Yippee!!!!! more »
Three Brothers
by
Libby
on Mon 16 Aug 2004 07:24 AM PDT
Three brothes, Middleton M.M, Thomas B, J, and Abraham (Abram) Wiley Hill came to Bastrop Countyr from Alabama and arived Jusly 3, 1835 wehn they bouth the headrigh of Edward Burleson for fifty cents and acre, on the Colorado River about 12 miles from Bastrop. more »
Wednesday, August 4
Sunday, August 1
Wylie and Evaline, Grandpa and Grandma (more from the memoirs of Ben O. Hill)
by
Libby
on Sun 01 Aug 2004 06:01 PM PDT
Grandpa Hill came to Texas from Georgia with two older brothers, 1835, when he was nineteen years old. A few ... more » Saturday, July 31
Survey Completed This Week, Closing To Be Scheduled Soon
by
Libby
on Sat 31 Jul 2004 07:54 AM PDT
We recieved the field notes from the survey. The property is actually 253.279 acres. But, that means we have to ... more »
Wednesday, July 28
Monday, July 12
Friday, July 2
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