Received this from Al Hill who had some new information and information confirming what we have. Hope to meet you some day...Al.   more »

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37563149@N00/sets/72157604802542011/

I have posted a flickr link to the photos of our restoration and progress. To review our progress, we ...   more »

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37563149@N00/sets/72157614556863108/show/

Click on link to see the amazing before and after photos of the recent cemetery restoration by Glenn Oldham ...   more »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mansfield

http://www.civilwar.org/historyclassroom/hc_mansfieldhist.htm

http://americancivilwar.com/statepic/la/la018.html

Mansfield
Sabine Cross-Roads, Pleasant Grove
Civil War Louisiana

American Civil War
April 8, 1864

By this time, ...   more »

Webb Gregg says that she claimed to be a descendant of the Hill Slaves. He has not been able to ...   more »

http://www.cemetery.state.tx.us/pub/user_form.asp?step=1&pers_id=1865
WILLIAMS, MARY SCOTT HILL (1844-1930) Mary Scott Hill Williams was born July 25, 1844, twelve miles outside of Bastrop, ...   more »

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[William Barret Travis] Broadside Titled at Top:

Streeter lists two copies of this broadside located at the Texas State Library in Austin, and at the San Jacinto Museum of History. This would be the third known copy, recently de-accessed from the collection of the Texas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (TXUDC), our consignor. The TXUDC received this broadside along with a small archive of documents pertaining to Abram W. Hill, an early immigrant to Texas who served at San Jacinto. They were a gift from TXUDC member Eva Hill Karling, granddaughter of Abram W. Hill. Ms. Karling was the daughter of Augustus M. Hill (son of Abram), who served as a private in Co. B of the 26th Texas Cavalry, Debray's Regiment. As a colonist who arrived in Texas in 1835, it is likely Abram Hill received the Travis broadside upon its original circulation in 1836.   more »

This article from Friday, Oct 17 Wall Street Journal is very interesting about the Black and White McCains.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122419511761942501.html


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Holmes history and Civil War   more »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI9YMPfZKFM

See the YouTube trailer here.  Looks like the movie has been released in some markets...filmed here at Hills Prairie ...   more »

Tonight, Rev. Webster Gregg and I told our stories at the Bastrop Historical Society. Below are my notes, and Webster did an amazing job summarizing his family history from royalty in Africa, through slavery, to today.   more »

Using Ancestry.com, I have been able to build out the family tree on the Holmes side. Sarah Elizabeth Holmes was ...   more »

I recently heard from Tom Carter of Westlaco, Texas. Tom is a descendent of Abraham Wiley Hill through ...   more »

I originally started this blog to communicate with family and friends about our restoration. Since we "reclaimed" Hills Prairie in ...   more »

I have recently heard from Tom Watson, a desendant of Mary Parks Hill Watson, and Kim Hill a descendant of Middleton Hill.

I didn't have a way to contact them, so if you are a Hill Descendant please also email me at

mslib5@yahoo.com

tell me your story!

 

 

 

http://homepage.mac.com/jrgallman/GallmanFamily/genealogy/Gdesc/wc03_022.htm

I found this while looking for information on John Gilmer McGehee

 

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070905/ap_on_re_us/crockett_letter   more »

A poem by Eva Hill LeSueur Karling From Leaves from Ancient Oaks   more »

This information is contained elsewhere on the blog, but I put it all together as source information for the African American Hill book.   more »

I gathered the information below from Eva and the previous post from Ben for the African American Hills to use as source information for their book. They have traced their family from Africa through Georgia to the Hills and have written a very interesting book about their heritage.   more »

From the Memoirs of Ben O. Hill  

I’M Born

December 15, 1883

My sister, Eva (Tia), was twelve years ...   more »

I found a picture (which I will have to scan) in the Duff Box of the home of John Calwell, ...   more »

Source: Bastrop Advertiser Article http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/1910s.htm   more »

I found a link to this actual story, looks like it was written by Eva around 1910.   more »

I found this on the internet....it looks to be a complete family history by Eva that was published in the Bastrop Advertisher. Some new information here... http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/1910s.htm   more »

This is from Eva's article on old Hills Prairie homes, but thought I should post it separately as it is about the railroad versus the old families.

In 1887, the M.K.& T. Railroad laid its track and ran the first trains through the valley. Jay Gould and other notables visited and inspected the Prairie during construction of the road. Dr. A.M. Hill built a store near the track, and R.A. Watson was the Clerk. T.K. Moore and P.J. Gill built a cotton gin and several small houses and a blacksmith shop composed the village. On Saturdays during cotton season there was sometimes as high as 200 tickers to Bastrop sold. That was in the 90’s.

What a small world, we met a Hill in a bar!

We are in Bastrop this weekend and Sarah wanted ...   more »

After typing this article in, I found it on the internet. See link to orginal article here: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/1910s.htm   more »

Attached is a copy of the newsletter from the African American Hill descendants who ended up in St. Johns Colony ...   more »

Reunion: descendants of Amelia and James Alford Hill   more »

http://music.yahoo.com/ar-298378-bio--Hilary-Duff   more »

My great grandparents were both descended from Henry Hill. See attached in her handwriting.   more »

A tribute to the Hill home in Hills Prairie, published in the Historical Edition of the Bastrop Advertiser in 1935.   more »

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/tx/topic/cemeteries/Etx/Bastrop/cemetery/oliverp.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petersburg,_Georgia

The dead town of Petersburg, Georgia was an upriver market located in Wilkes County, Georgia (now Elbert) County. ...   more »

http://www.mymcgee.com/web/mcgeelines/thomasmackgeheeca1645-1724vaannbaytop.html

 

This is a story I found on the Internet about Dionsysius Oliver who eventually married our anscestor Sarah McGehee Hill.   more »

I found A.W. Hill (name misspelled) on this site as fighting in the 2nd Regiment Cavalry/Spy company:

http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/ccbn/dewitt/sjvetsunit.htm

 

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http://www.usgennet.org/usa/al/county/barbour/surnames/wileyoliver.htm

This link has a comprehensive geneaology of Wiley Olivers. Even this source comments on the beauty if Sarah McGehee ...   more »

I am posting this on after hearing from Larry Wilson. He is researching his ancestor, John Oliver, whose bother was ...   more »

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