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 1783 - 1852 (~ 69 years)
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| Name |
Benjamin Hill |
| Birth |
0___ 1783 |
Granville County, North Carolina  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
0___ 1852 |
(Warren County) Tennessee [2] |
| Person ID |
I24062 |
The Hennessee Family |
| Last Modified |
23 Jul 2009 |
| Father |
Isaac Hill, Sr., b. 22 Jul 1748, Charles County, Province of Maryland d. 28 Jul 1825, Warren County, Tennessee (Age 77 years) |
| Mother |
Lucinda "Lucy" Wallace, b. 0___ 1746, Saint Marys County, Maryland d. 23 Sep 1798, Edgecombe County, North Carolina (Age ~ 52 years) |
| Marriage |
0___ 1772 |
Martin County, North Carolina [3, 4] |
| Family ID |
F7639 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/5780/chart.html
BENJAMIN HILL, born 1783 at Granville Co., NC; married Rebecca Wallace, born 1783 SC, about 1802 in Warren Co., TN. They had eight children; Henry John Alexander, Lucinda, Martha, Polly, Wallace, Isaac III, and Ashley (male). They were divorced before 1850. Rebecca went to Robertson Co., TX with their son Henry John Alexander Hill (named for his uncle). Benjamin, age 67, was living in the same household as Jackson Riley according to the 1850 census, Warren Co., TN.
A grandson of Benjamin and Rebecca's, son of Isaac III & his wife Frances Pickett, was Benjamin Jefferson Hill who became a Brigadier General in the Civil War serving the Confederacy as leader of the Thirty-Fifth Regiment Tennessee Volunteers which was later known as the Fifth Tennessee. (This portrait hangs in the Magness Library in McMinnville, TN) General B. J. Hill married Mary V. Smartt and both are interred in the old town cemetery in McMinnville, TN.
Note of interest: Published in The Central Gazette, McMinnville, Warren Co., TN, September 21, 1840: "Notice - I forewarn all persons from trading or crediting my wife Rebecca Hill, on my account as I will not pay any of her contracts. Benjamin Hill."
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- [S24] "Warren County, Tennessee, Will Books 1-3 (1827-1858)", Abstracted and, p. 135.
- [S23051] Steve Roper; 20 Feb 1999 email; shkgelmt@gnv.fdt.net.
- [S785] "Wes Dodson's Notebook, No. 1".Wes Dodson,1882-1965,esteemed amateur historian, p. 241.
- [S8987] "Descendants of Peter Wallace, Sr. Generation No. 1", http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/w/a/l/Robert-T-Wallace/BOOK-0001/0002.
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