Charles Hill was my 3rd great granduncle, a son of Charles Hill and Molly Hill. He was born in Virginia about 1818. His sister, Mariah Hill Herring was my third great grandmother. His grandparents, Henry Hill and Susanna Jones, were the parents of Nancy Hill Herring, who was Sarah Tatum's (Charle's wife) grandmother.
I believe that Charles Hill came to Missouri as a young teenager in the very early 1830's, about the same time his wife to be and her family came. He was living in the house of my third great grandparents, John B. Herring and Mariah Hill Herring (his older sister), in 1840, in Callaway Co., Missouri.
On March 14, 1850 in Callaway Co., Missouri, Charles Hill married Sarah J. Tatum. She was born about 1828 in Albemarle Co., Virginia, a daughter of Thomas Tatum and Mary A. Herring. She came to Callaway county with her parents at about age three. She and Charles Hill would have known each other since childhood, they were 1st cousins once removed.
She was my 1st cousin 4 times removed.
Charles and Sarah J. Tatum Hill had four children:
- Mary T. Hill, b: abt 1851 Callaway Co. Missouri, d: 1925, buried Prairie Chapel Cemetery, Callaway Co. Missouri.
- married Nov. 7, 1888 in Callaway Co., Missouri, her second cousin, Henry Collett Hill, b: May 13, 1852 d: July 24, 1935, buried Prairie Chapel Cemetery, Callaway Co. Missouri. He was a son of Ambrose Brockman Hill Sr. and Elizabeth Williams. He was first married to Ella D. Hardin, daughter of Elihu Hardin and Rosa Missouri Crowson. They had two children, Ina Price Hill and Myrtle Hill. After his wife's death in 1886, he married Mary Hill. He was my 2nd cousin 4 times removed.
- Children:
- Lowell B. Hill, b: Oct. 1889, Callaway Co., Missouri.
- 1st married Mar. 30, 1917, Callaway Co., Missouri, Ethel M. Ogan, daughter of J.A. Ogan, b: Oct. 1, 1887, Callaway Co., Missouri, d: Mar. 11, 1918, Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri, buried Prairie Chapel Cemetery, Callaway Co. Missouri.
- 2nd married Aug. 8, 1920, Callaway Co. Missouri, Golda Greeder
- Ortho C. Hill, b: Mar. 2, 1892, Callaway Co., Missouri, d: Dec. 19, 1897, Callaway Co., Missouri, buried Prairie Chapel Cemetery, Callaway Co. Missouri.
- Effie M. Hill, b: Dec. 1893, Callaway Co., Missouri.
- Lizzie Hill, b: Mar. 1897, Callaway Co., Missouri.
- Annie Eliza Hill, b: Nov 2, 1853 Callaway Co. Missouri, d: May 20, 1931, Callaway Co., Missouri, buried Prairie Chapel Cemetery, Callaway Co. Missouri.
- married John Thomas Fletcher b: Sept 1, 1857 Callaway Co, Missouri, d: Feb 26, 1897 Callaway Co, Missouri, buried Prairie Chapel Cemetery, Callaway Co. Missouri. John T. Fletcher was my great grandUncle, a son of John F. and Mary Fletcher. He was the brother of my great grandmother Margaret Ann Fletcher.
- Henry Charles Hill, b: Nov. 4, 1856, Callaway Co., Missouri, d: May 11, 1880, Callaway Co., Missouri, buried Prairie Chapel Cemetery, Callaway Co. Missouri.
- Mariah Elizabeth "Lizzie" Hill, b: Jun. 16, 1859, Callaway Co., Missouri, d: Mar. 13, 1897, Callaway Co., Missouri, buried Prairie Chapel Cemetery, Callaway Co. Missouri.
- Married, Nov. 8, 1884, Callaway Co., Missouri, her second cousin, Ambrose Brockman Hill Jr., b: Dec. 29, 1854, Callaway Co., Missouri, d: Jul. 25, 1927, Callaway Co., Missouri, buried Prairie Chapel Cemetery, Callaway Co. Missouri. He was a son of Ambrose Brockman Hill Sr. and Elizabeth Williams, and was my 2nd cousin 4 times removed.
- Children:
- Chalmus Charles Hill, b: Nov. 29, 1885, Callaway Co., Missouri, d: Nov. 20, 1944, Callaway Co., Missouri, buried Central Christian Church cemetery, Callaway Co., Missouri.
- Married, between 1920 and 1930, Emma D. unknown, b: Nov. 5, 1896, Missouri, d: Mar. 18, 1987, buried Central Christian Church cemetery, Callaway Co., Missouri.
- Richard William Hill, b: Aug. 4, 1891, Callaway Co., Missouri, d: Dec. 17, 1947, Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri, buried Hillcrest cemetery, Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri.
- 1st married, Apr. 1922, Callaway Co., Missouri, Addie Douglass, b: Mar. 27, 1895, Missouri, d: Apr. 24, 1929, Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri, buried Hillcrest cemetery, Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri. She was a daughter of Frank Douglass and Janie Dickenson.
- Children: 2 sons, possibly living
- 2nd married, after 1929, Verda S. Schmidt, b: Nov. 24, 1910, d: May 22, 1995, buried Hillcrest cemetery, Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri. She was a daughter of Henry Schmidt and Minnie Offel.
- Children: 1 daughter, possibly living
- Roy Hill, b: Sep. 1887, Callaway Co., Missouri, d: after 1930.
- Sarah Francis Hill, b: Sep. 1891, Callaway Co., Missouri.
- Married, May 28, 1913, Callaway Co., Missouri, Arthur Hopkins.
- Children:
- David Hopkins, b: abt. 1914, Callaway Co., Missouri, d: 1997, buried Callaway Memorial Gardens, Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri.
- Married, Margaret unknown, b: 1914, d: 1983, buried Callaway Memorial Gardens, Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri.
Charles Hill was murdered by Union troups in Callaway Co., Missouri, about Sept. 4, 1862, at the home of William Given. The story of this incident is here.
Sarah Tatum Hill died Nov. 12, 1910, in Callaway Co., Missouri. They are both buried in the Prairie Chapel Cemetery, Callaway Co. Missouri.
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