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Descendants of Slaughter Hill

Generation No. 2

2. WILLIAM W² HILL (SLAUGHTER¹) was born 1829 in Macon, Bibb Co, GA. He married ELIZABETH MILLER Abt. 1854 in Macon Co, GA.

Notes for WILLIAM W HILL:
William W. Hill was the first child of six from the marriage of Slaughter Hill and Elizabeth Malden. He was born around 1829 in the town of Macon, in Bibb County, Georgia.

His parents moved from Macon, GA to Lanier, GA in Macon County sometime between the 1830 census and 1838. His name first appears on the 1850 Macon County Georgia census for
Lanier, his age is given as 21. That census indicates that he had been enrolled or attended school within the year.

William married an Elizabeth E. Millier or Miller. Based on the 1860 Macon County Georgia census and the given ages of his children, they were married probably in 1854. The
children from this marriage were: Charles J.M. (Mack), Rosella, and Joseph E.B. (Joe Brown).

William followed his fathers footsteps by serving as Justice of the Inferior Court for Lanier, GA and Macon County. He served two back-to-back 4 year terms from 10 Jan 1861 to 1868.
William was also the executor of his fathers Will and responsible for the distribution of the estate among Slaughter's children. He filed for homestead of lots 74 & 78 located in District 1 of
Macon County, Georgia during 1872.

According to a narrative by a Kathleen Gilham Hill, the daughter-in-law of his brother Yancey Hill, published in "The History of Macon County" by L.F. Hays, William moved his family to
live in Henry Ellen, Alabama. (Year moved is not known).

** Note: I have not found a listing on any maps, old or recent, to indicate where Henry Ellen is located. I am following a lead on a William Hill who moved from Georgia to North Alabama
up around Huntsville. This William Hill settled on property owned by a Mr Miller. He may be a relation to W. Hill's wife. **

Children of WILLIAM HILL and ELIZABETH MILLER are:

	i.		CHARLES J "MACK"³ HILL, b. 1855.
	ii.		ROSELLA HILL, b. 1857.
	iii.		JOE BROWN HILL, b. 1858.

3. CALEB FREEMAN² HILL (SLAUGHTER¹) was born Nov 1832 in Lanier, Macon Co, GA, and died 1 Sep, 1903 in Ashburn, Turner Co, GA ⁸. He married MARTHA BRYAN 30 Jun, 1857 in Lanier, Macon Co, GA, daughter of MCGRUDER BRYAN.

Notes for CALEB FREEMAN HILL:
      CALEB FREEMAN HILL was born around the year 1832 possibly in Bibb County, Georgia. His family moved at sometime after the 1830 census to reside near the town of Lanier in Macon County, Georgia where he may have been born. He was the second child of six, (three brothers and three sisters), from the marriage of SLAUGHTER HILL and ELIZABETH MAULDEN. He is named in the 1850 Macon County, GA census as living with his parents. His age is given as 17.

      His marriage to a MARTHA BRYAN was recorded in Macon County, GA on 31 June 1857. The 1860 Macon County, GA census shows him with his own household and family. CALEB appears to have lived on property belonging to or given to him by his father SLAUGHTER HILL.

      The nine children of this marriage were: ELIZABETH, YANCEY, CHARLES JEWITT, ROBERT LEE, MARY (Mammie), HAMPTON, JESSE, EULA, and MINNIE.

      CALEB HILL's participation in the Civil War is copied from the book on the History of Macon County by Mrs. Louisa F. Hays:

      "During the first half of the 1860s the country was in turmoil from the Civil War. Lieutenant Caleb F. Hill, a Lieutenant Maffett, and Captain J.D. Frederick organized Company A, Macon County Guards as part of the 10th Georgia Battalion in the town of Lanier. The 10th GA. Bn., commanded by Major John E. Rylander, was initially organized at Camp Stephens, GA. on
17 March 1862 and consisted of the following four companies:

Co A, Macon County Guards, Macon County, Capt. J.D. Frederick
Co B, Worth Rebels, Worth County, Capt. Daniel Henderson
Co C, Zollicoffer Rifles, Sumter County, Capt. B.F. Bell
Co D, Whittle Guards, Bibb County, Capt. W.L. Jones

      Caleb's company along with the 10th GA. remained at Camp Stephens until 14 May 1862. At this time the 10th GA. was ordered to Macon, GA. for the purpose of guarding several thousand federal prisoners at Camp Oglethorpe. By order of Brigadier General Mercer, commanding department of Georgia, a fifth company was formed on 17 July 1862 with Capt. John L. Adderton commanding. On 15 December 1862, orders were received for the battalion to proceed to Virginia to join General Robert E. Lee's Army at Fredericksburg, VA. The battalion arrived on 27 December 1862 and was attached to General G.T. Anderson's Brigade, General Hood's Division, Longstreet's Corps.

      By 17 February 1863, Caleb's company marched with General Lee's Army from Fredericksburg to Richmond during a bitter northern Virginia snowstorm where the 10th GA. participated in the campaign against Suffolk. Near the end of this engagement, the 10th GA. was exchanged for the 59th Georgia Regiment, and was ordered to Fort Powhatten, on the James River. This important position was held by the 10th GA. for nearly two months.

      The federal forces eventually attacked the fort by both land and sea with vastly superior forces. General D.H. Hill ordered the evacuation of the fort and the 10th GA. fell back to Petersburg.

      By the middle of August 1863, the 10th GA was ordered to Franklin, VA to support the Blackwater Line which it held for eight months. About 25 April 1864, the 10th GA was ordered to report to General Lee, at Orange Courthouse, VA. and was assigned to the brigade of General A.R. Wright, Anderson's Division, A.P. Hill's Corps. Caleb's unit participated more or less in all the fierce battles and fatiguing marches of this memorable campaign which included a desperate charge upon the Federal Army's fortified positions on 14 May 1864 at Spottsylvania Court-House.

      Caleb was promoted to Captain on 2 June 1864 and assumed commmand of Company A when Captain Frederick assumed command of the 10th GA upon Major Rylander's death at the battle of Cold Harbor or Gaines Mill on this date. On the 22nd and 23rd June 1864, Caleb's company with the 10th GA fought in a fierce battle near Petersburg, VA. The 10th GA was assigned picket duty three-quarters of a mile in advance of the line of entrenchments and was not engaged with all the balance of Wright Brigade on the terrific battle on 30 July 1864. The battalion was about two miles from the scene of the explosion at Grant's Mine, and the charge of Wright's Brigade on this date. * Note: I am still researching Caleb's company and the battles the unit participated in from 30 July 1864 until the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, VA. The pension records for the Confederate Army indicates he may have been present for the surrender at Appomattox, VA on 9 April 1865. A "Parole Prisoner Pass" owned by a Mr. Boze Kitchens, dated 16 April 1865, which he valued highly, showed Captain Caleb Hill's signature (C.F. Hill, Captain, Commanding)".

      After the Civil War, Caleb returned back to his home in Lanier, Georgia. Apparently CALEB, his father, and brothers were in high standing with the local community. They have all held various positions of importance within Macon County and the town of Lanier. CALEB was one of the last trustees for the Lanier Male & Female Academy before it closed down in 1868. It was a position previously occupied early in the institution's history by his father. CALEB was also elected to the Macon County Road Commission for District 814 and served from 1869 to 1872.

      The 1880 Census showed CALEB and his family still lived in Macon County, Georgia. Also listed on the census was his wife's brother Middleton Bryan(t), age 21, a Martha Bryan(t), age 38, and her daughter Virginia, age 17. Records of a land sale to a Mr. G. Johnson, on 6 January 1888, indicate CALEB lived in Macon County until around that date.

      He had resided in Macon County until late in his life when he and his wife moved to Ashburn, Georgia in what was then Irwin County (Ashburn became part of Turner County when it was established in 1903).

      On April 5, 1890, the members of the Methodist church in the town of Sycamore, Georgia established a building committe for a new church. Caleb was listed as one of the members. Caleb was also elected as a trustee of the church property during the first quarterly conference by the church in 1891. The 1900 Georgia Census (Soundex) shows CALEB living in Irwin County, Georgia with his wife MARTHA. Also shown during this census, whether living with him or visiting were his daughters MAMMIE, MINNIE McMURRIAN, grandsons EUDER WARD, BRIAN & CLINTON McMURRIAN, granddaughters ERA & CARRIE McMURRIAN.

      CALEB is buried beside his wife MARTHA in the Rosehill Cemetary just north of Ashburn on County Highway 159.

Notes for MARTHA BRYAN:
MARTHA HILL's Will, is located in the Ashburn, Turner Co, GA. Probate records, and dated 28 Dec 1904. The Will indicates surviving children and property she owned in Ashburn. Martha named her son YANCEY HILL I, who lived in Montezuma, Macon Co, GA, as her executor.
Her eldest daughter LIZZIE KENDRICK was given her house and lot, in Ashburn, GA, described as Lot 1, Block 45. The Five (5) room house faced Railroad Street, 107 feet and running back east 194 feet. A map of the town drawn by P.E. Dennis showed the lot of land as number 132, 2nd District of Worth Co, GA. The property was bounded on the north by Jackson St, the east and south by property owned by J.S. Shingler, and on the west by Railroad St.
The residue of Martha's property was divided among her children and a grandchild named EULER WARD. His share was placed in trust to her son YANCEY HILL. YANCEY's petition to probate the Will provides the last known locations of MARTHA HILL's children and their families. They are identified as: Mrs. LIZZIE KENDRICK, Ashburn, GA; CHARLIE HILL, Weleetka, Indian Territory, (OK); HAMP HILL, Forest, CA; YANCEY HILL, Montezuma, GA; R.L. HILL, Ashburn, GA; Mrs. MINNIE GRIFFIN, Ashburn, GA; Mrs. MAMIE JOHNSON, Birmingham, AL; EULER WARD, Ashburn, GA; and JESSE HILL who was last heard of in California several years ago.
The Turner County Banner ran a obituary column on 5 Jul 1907 which stated: Mrs. C.F. HILL, wife of the late Capt. C.F. HILL, died at her home in this city yesterday morning in the 66th year of her age and will be buried at Rose Hill Cemetary today.

More About MARTHA BRYAN:
Estate: 5 Jul, 1907, Obituary, The Turner Co. Banner, page 8,

Children of CALEB HILL and MARTHA BRYAN are:

5.	i.	ELIZABETH³ HILL, b. 30 Nov, 1855, Macon Co, GA; d. 13 Apr, 1915, Ashburn, Turner Co, GA.
6.	ii.	YANCEY HILL I, b. 28 Jan, 1861, Macon Co, GA; d. 12 Jul, 1921, Montezuma, Macon Co, GA.
7.	iii.	CHARLES JEWETT HILL, b. 1862, Macon Co, GA; d. 1924, Duncan, OK.
8.	iv.	ROBERT LEE HILL, b. 28 Oct, 1867, Montezuma, Macon Co, GA; d. 28 Apr, 1941, Pavo, Thomas Co, GA.
9.	v.	MINNIE HILL, b. Apr 1868.
	vi.	HAMPTON HILL, b. Jan 1870.
	vii.	JESSE HILL, b. 1872.
	viii.	MARY "MAMMIE" HILL, b. Dec 1873; m. JOHNSON.
10.	ix.	EULA HILL, b. 1878, Macon Co, GA; d. Sep 1898, Irwin Co, GA.

4. HOWARD² HILL (SLAUGHTER¹) was born 1842. He married CAROLINE "CARRIE" FELTON 12 Dec, 1866 in Macon Co, GA, daughter of JOHN FELTON and ELIZABETH RIPLEY.

Children of HOWARD HILL and CAROLINE FELTON are:

11.	i.	LORENZO RIPLEY³ HILL.
	ii.	SAMUEL HILL.
	iii.	BETTY HILL.
	iv.	GEORGE HILL.
12.	v.	JOHN HILL.

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