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Ancestors of Christina Marie Wise Brown

      478. George Edelen, born Abt. 1761; died Aft. January 11, 1811 in Saint Anne's Church, Kentucky. He was the son of 956. Robert Edelen. He married 479. Sarah Ann Edelen May 14, 1785 in Charles Co., Maryland.

      479. Sarah Ann Edelen, born February 1763 in Charles Co., Maryland; died July 20, 1848 in Washington Co., Kentucky. She was the daughter of 958. Edward Edelen and 959. Susannah Wathen.

Notes for George Edelen:
According to the genealogy "Snatches of O'Daniel", he was a revolutionary war vetran who married his cousin Sarah Ann Edelen. Several other genealogies (Crolian Edelen and Vivian Edelen) support this. Charmaine Welker lists Sarah Ann Edelen, born February 1763, as the daughter of Edward Edelen and Susannah Wathen. George and Sarah Edelen were married on May 14, 1785, and at least their first two children were born in Maryland. They moved to the Cartwright's Creek settlement in Washington County, Kentucky around 1795. His name was included in a 1803-04 letter of appeal to the Archbishop of Baltimore for a priest for the Catholics of Cartwright's Creek. Father O'Daniel in his book "Snatches of O'Daniel" lists the following children, from whom a large number of Kentucky Edelen kin are descended:

Robert Edelen married Hettie Riney
Alice Edelen married Thomas Medley
Priscilla Edelen d.s.p.
Harriet Edelen married Alexander Hamilton
Louise Edelen married John Abraham Rhodes
Elizabeth Edelen married James Howard
Althea Edelen married Edward Hamilton
Benedict Edelen married 1) Elizabeth Hamilton 2) Theresa Wright
Leonard Edelen married Susan Bruce
James married Rose Cambron
Lucy Edelen married William Thompson Hamilton

George Edelen died prior to the 1810 census; in this his wife is listed as a widow. He was buried beside Saint Anne's Church. His father, Robert had moved to Kentucky with them and is also buried here. Sarah Ann Edelen lived on until 1848, and died that year at the age of 85.

Reference: http://www.ghgcorp.com/edelen/People2.html
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The intial publication of this website (see reference below) had this couple as the progenators of a Kentucky line of Edelen's. Research done by Charmaine Welker and Mary Catherine Carver, however, shows that the "George and Sarah Edelen" that immigrated to Kentucky at the end of the eighteeth century (4a below) were not the same as those described here. Several lines of evidence support their theory, most notably family tradition maitains that the father of George Edelen of Kentucky was Robert Edelen, who also moved to Kentucky with his son's family. However George Stonestreet Edelen's father was Richard Edelen who clearly remained in Prince Georges County, Maryland until his death in 1791 (ref 4). Another line of evidence is that land was purchased by George Stonestreet Edelen in Maryland 1803, while a George Edelen (presumably the "other" George) is listed in the tax list in Washington County, Kentucky in 1797 (ref 29).

Reference: http://www.ghg.net/edelen/People1.html

Children of George Edelen and Sarah Edelen are:

		i.		Elizabeth Edelen, married James Howard.
		ii.		James Polin Edelen, born Abt. 1803; died January 25, 1895 in Lebanon, Kentucky; married Rose Louise Cambron August 24, 1826 in Washington Co., Kentucky; born 1810 in Washington Co., Kentucky; died January 20, 1872.
		iii.		Robert Edelen, born May 28, 1786 in Maryland; died August 22, 1855 in Washington Co., Kentucky; married Elizabeth Hester Riney; born August 18, 1788 in Maryland; died 1859.
		iv.		Alice Edelen, born 1789 in Maryland; died August 04, 1872 in Washington Co., Kentucky; married Thomas Medley; born October 1785 in Maryland; died October 05, 1855 in Springfield, Kentucky.
		v.		Priscilla Edelen, born Abt. 1790; died Aft. 1850.
		vi.		Harriet Edelen, born 1791; died March 13, 1823 in Washington Co., Kentucky; married Alexander Hamilton February 19, 1811; born January 06, 1788; died November 07, 1878 in Washington Co., Kentucky.

More About Harriet Edelen:
Burial: St. Rose Cemetery, Springfield, Kentucky

More About Alexander Hamilton:
Burial: St. Rose Cemetery, Springfield, Kentucky

	vii.	Louise Edelen, born May 02, 1794 in Kentucky; died April 29, 1877 in Meade Co., Kentucky; married John Abraham Rhodes; born Abt. 1790.
239	viii.	Althea Edith Edelen, born May 20, 1795 in Kentucky; died November 08, 1855 in Marion Co., Kentucky; married Edward Hamilton September 08, 1817 in Washington Co., Kentucky.
	ix.	Benedict Edelen, born March 22, 1797; died June 07, 1871 in Washington Co., Kentucky; married (1) Theresa Wright; married (2) Elizabeth Hamilton July 11, 1821; born February 14, 1802 in Lebanon, Washington Co., Kentucky; died 1854.

More About Benedict Edelen:
Burial: St. Rose Cemetery, Springfield, Kentucky

		x.		Leonard Edelen, born 1800; married Susan Bruce.
		xi.		Lucy Ellen Edelen, born June 06, 1805; died January 29, 1895 in St. Mary's, Kentucky; married William Thompson Hamilton August 26, 1826; born June 06, 1806 in Lebanon, Washington Co., Kentucky; died June 22, 1856.

More About Lucy Ellen Edelen:
Burial: St. Charles Cemetary, St. Mary's, Kentucky

Notes for William Thompson Hamilton:
[John Wimsatt.FTW]

In 1815 a church was erected in Lebanon. St. Augustine? St. Rose's parish lies next to the Lebanon parish.
William Thompson Hamilton and Lucy were married in what was by then called Washington County. Marion County was cut from Washington County eight or nine years after they were married. The court-house at Lebanon was burned during the Civil War by Major General John H. Morgan of guerilla fame and nearly all the records were destroyed. Records at St. Charles' Church in Marion County have also been burned.

More About William Thompson Hamilton:
Residence: Cartwright Creek, Lebanon, Ky

480. Nicholas Lyddane, born in Ireland.

Child of Nicholas Lyddane is:

240

Patrick Lyddane, born in Ireland; married Bridget in Maryland.

      488. Rudolph Jarboe, born 1748 in St. Mary's Co., Maryland; died Bef. 1796 in Washington Co., Kentucky. He was the son of 976. Henry Jarboe and 977. Elizabeth Hendley. He married 489. Elizabeth.

      489. Elizabeth

Children of Rudolph Jarboe and Elizabeth are:

244	i.	John Thomas Jarboe, born October 03, 1770 in St. Mary's Co., Maryland; died October 10, 1850 in Marion Co., Kentucky; married Dorothy Hill December 24, 1791.
	ii.	Eleanor Jarboe, born in St. Mary's Co., Maryland.
	iii.	Walter Jarboe, born in St. Mary's Co., Maryland.
	iv.	Vernon Jarboe, born in St. Mary's Co., Maryland.

      490. Thomas Hill, born May 01, 1723 in Wiltshire, England; died May 23, 1820 in the home of his son, Clement Hill, in Washington Co., Kentucky. He was the son of 980. Thomas Hill. He married 491. Rebecca Miles November 13, 1753 in St. Mary's County, Maryland.

      491. Rebecca Miles, born Abt. 1736 in Maryland; died March 18, 1783 in Maryland. She was the daughter of 982. John Miles and 983. Elizabeth Gardiner.

Notes for Thomas Hill:
In 1744, after weeks at sea, Thomas Hill, and his brother, Henry Hill, emerged from the ship's steerage, walked down the plank, and set foot on Dorchester County, Maryland soil. Land was a welcome sight after three months at sea.

Like other English adventurers, Thomas and Henry Hill had come to America to start a new life. Henry Hill soon became disenchanted on the Maryland coast and returned to England.

Thomas Hill cross the Patuxent River and settled in St. Mary's Co., Maryland among the many Catholics already populating that area. Here he met Rebecca Miles. On November 13, 1753, they were married and settled on their farm about five miles northwest of Lenoardtown, Maryland.

Thomas Hill seems to have been a quiet man in Maryland; his name seldom appears in records. After the death of Rebecca on March 18, 1783, Thomas Hill, his family, including his two married sons, moved to Montgomery Co., Maryland near present Pooleyville.

In spring of 1787 Thomas Hill, John Baptist Hill, and the unmarried Hill children joined Philip Miles, the brother of Rebecca Miles, for the journey to their new home in Kentucky. Thomas Hill was a man of robust health, for at the age of sixty-four he was a leader in the move. Webb in the CENTENARY OF CATHOLICITY IN KENTUCKY related the following:

At the beginning of the year 1787, Thomas Hill and Philip Miles, brother-in-laws, living up to that time near Lenoardstown, St. Mary's Co., Maryland, arranged with each other to remove with their families to Kentucky. Their idea at the time was to settle on Pottinger's Creek, whither had previously gone quite a number of their friends and neighbors. Their proposed journey was begun in February, and toward the end of March, on the very day they expected to make landing above the falls of the Ohio, their boat was fired on by Indians with fatal effect. A Negro belonging to Thomas Hill was killed, as were, also, all the horses on the boat, and Hill himself was seriously wounded by the passage of an ounce ball through both of his thighs. This happened at a point then and still known as Eighteen Miles Island, it's distance above Louisville being just so many miles. Happily for the remainder of the emigrants, the boat was soon carried by the current beyond gun-shot range of the lurking savages, and before night its living freightage of men, women, and children was safely housed in Louisville. Clement Hill, an eleven year old son of Thomas Hill, was lying on the deck of the boat when his father's slave was shot, and he was covered by the body when he fell.

The journey to Bardstown was a rough one for the wounded man but he was borne along by his companions, and the party reached the town in safety after a toilsome march of several days. The trail followed by the emigrants on this occasion was a new one. The entire party remained in Bardstown about a year, and Thomas Hill, owing to the severity of his wounds, for a longer period. In March 1788, Philip Miles and Harry Hill, the latter being a grown-up son of Thomas Hill, purchased farms in the Pottinger's Creek neighborhood, to which they removed immediately, and upon which they passed the remainder of their lives.

In Spring of 1789, Thomas Hill, now fully recovered from his wounds, moved from Bardstown to Cartwright's Creek, where he purchased and settled upon land adjoining the farm of Mr. Cambron. The Catholic faith of these two worthy pioneers is well illustrated by the following occurrence:

They had as yet put in and gathered but a single crop when the two, being together one day, began to talk of the sad predicament they and their families were in, in respect to the practice of their religion. The nearest station at which Father Whelan was in the habit of saying Mass was too far away to render it possible for all to be present on these occasions, and their children were growing up with little opportunity of learning, in a practical way, the extent and character of their religious obligations. If they could but increase their numbers, so they thought, and thus be enabled to put up a church, Providence would assuredly send them a priest to administer to their spiritual necessities. At length, one of them said to the other, "Let us go upon the uplands to the south, buy lands, father about us the Catholics now coming into the State, and build a church."

Thomas Hill did succeed in obtaining a Mass for his children. Before the completion of their church, Mass was ordinarily celebrated for the Catholic people of the settlement at the home of Thomas Hill, which came in time to be known as the Cartwright's Creek church station. The grandson of Thomas Hill, Reverend Walter Henry Hill, informed Webb: "I learned from Father Badin himself that my father was in the habit of conducting him, sometimes from St. Stephen's (present Mother House of the Sisters of Loretto), and sometimes from Bardstown, to my grandfather's house, in order to afford the people opportunities to attend to their religious duties."

Other Catholics were also induced into the area. Sister Mary Romana Mattingly, SCN in her dissertation tells us that the Cartwright's Creek "locality soon had the largest congregation in Kentucky and a chapel was begun in 1794. It was not completed, however, until four years later when it was dedicated to St. Ann by Fathers Badin and Fournier."

Father Badin wrote to Bishop Carroll concerning St. Ann's on Feb. 20, 1799. "One priest would have business enough in the congregation of Cartwright's Creek which contains more than 100 families, where a good seat of land is unoccupied and contiguous to the chapel. This large congregation is too far distant from Mr. Fournier's to be sufficiently instructed, ruled, and served."

St. Ann's was a log cabin church. Today all that remains is a small fenced off section of the old cemetery where the farms of Graves, Osborn, and Smith connect, not far from the highway between St. Rose's Church and the Loretto Mother House. In this little cemetery surrounded by trees are the unmarked graves of the early Catholic settlers.

St. Ann's was used until Dec. 25, 1809, when St. Rose's, connected with the Dominican Priory, was completed. St. Ann's was razed in 1819.

Webb wrote of his life, "Though he was past middle life when he came to Kentucky, Thomas Hill was still strong and active; and, above all, he was earnest in his desire to provide for his children every facility on culture that was within the compass of his means. Especially did he labor to found them securely in the Catholic faith and to present them reasonable motives for its constant and systematic practice. The death of this veteran among the faithful of the settlement, took place in 1820, at the age of 97 years, and his name is to the present day held in benediction in the homes of his descendants scattered all over the western country.
Excerpt from the Will of Thomas Hill:

When Thomas Hill was seventy-eight years of age, he deeded everything to his heirs as a bill of sale (deed B:444,dated 8/20/1801.): Know all men by these presents that I, Thomas Hill of Washington County, State of Ky. for and in consideration of the material love and affection which I have and bear towards my children therein after named, to wit, John Baptist Hill, Charles Hill and Aloisa (wife of Ignatius Clark) all of Nelson County Mary Herbert (wife of Jeremiah Herbert), Dolly Jarboe (wife of John Jarboe) and Clement Hill all of Washington County and state afore said and Elizabeth Files (wife of John Files) of Berkley County and State of Virginia , and also for the further consideration of the sum of five shillings current money of Kentucky to me in hand will and truly paid have given granted, bargained, and sold and by these presents do give grant bargain sell set over and deliver unto the said John B. Hill, Charles Hill, Aloisa Clark, Mary Herbert, Dolly Jarboe, Clement Hill, and Elizabeth Files, Their heirs and assigns forever all the following property, to wit, etc...etc. signed the 8th day of July 1801.

More About Thomas Hill:
Burial: Kentucky

Children of Thomas Hill and Rebecca Miles are:

John Baptist Hill, born May 1754; died July 23, 1841 in Nelson Co., Kentucky; married (1) Mary Gristy; married (2) Mary Jarboe 1778 in Maryland; born in St. Mary's Co., Maryland; died Bef. 1822 in Kentucky.

Notes for John Baptist Hill:
John Baptist Hill, commonly called Harry, the eldest child of Thomas Hill and Rebecca Miles, was born in St. Mary's County, Maryland in May, 1754. He was twice married. His first wife was Mary Jarboe, of St. Mary's County, Maryland, and they lived in the vicinity of St. Inigoes. His second wife was Mary Gristy, of Nelson County, Ky. Harry Hill emigrated to Kentucky probably in 1785. Harry was a signer of the Catholic Colonization League of Maryland in 1785. From Cathedrals in the Wilderness, by J. Herman Schauinger it is learned that the first real Catholic colony, consisting of some twenty-five families (the listing includes Harry Hill) came from Maryland before summer in 1785 and established the famous Pottinger's Creek Settlement, a few miles from Bardstown. In March, 1788, Harry purchased a farm on Pottinger's Creek, near Gethsemani Station, on the Knoxville Branch of the Louisville and Nashville railroads. On this farm he passed the remainder of his life. The only child born to Harry and Mary Gristy was Rebecca.

More About John Baptist Hill:
Residence: Nelson Co., Kentucky

ii.

Elizabeth Gardiner Hill, born 1757 in St. Mary's Co., Maryland; died Unknown; married John Files.

Notes for Elizabeth Gardiner Hill:
Elizabeth Hill was the oldest daughter of Thomas Hill and Rebecca Miles. From research the following facts are now available. An Elizabeth Hill born about 1757, married in 1779 in Frederick Co., Maryland, Adam Fogle. Since Mary Hill and Jeremiah Herbert were married in this same county, it is presumed that this could be our Elizabeth. In Jeremiah Herbert's will he leaves an amount to Elizabeth Fogle, formerly Elizabeth Hill. It is further thought that Elizabeth Hill and Adam Fogle lived in Nelson Co. He was the only Fogle mentioned in this list. Since he is not mentioned in the next census and since Jeremiah Herbert says of Elizabeth, "If she can be heard of," it is presumed that they returned to Frederick Co, Maryland. Another reason for thinking this is that John David Hill would most likely have found her descendants if she had remained in Kentucky.

Whether they had children or not is not known. In the 1790 census of Frederick County, Maryland, an Adam Fogle is mentioned with 1 male over 16, 3 females including the wife, and 1 slave. In the History of Frederick Co., Maryland, by T.J.C. Williams published in 1967 there is an extended genealogy of the Fogle family. It starts, however, in the early 1800s.

iii.

Charles Hill, born 1761; died March 05, 1846 in St. Catherine Cemetery, New Haven, Kentucky; married Margaret Nichols 1787.

Notes for Charles Hill:
Charles Hill, the second son of Thomas and Rebecca Hill was born in St. Mary's County, Maryland, where he married Margaret Nichols. Charles lived in Virginia during the Revolutionary War and was a Revolutionary soldier. He was present at the battle of Yorktown when Cornwallis surrendered. The 1790 census shows Charles and his family living in Virginia. Shortly thereafter he emigrated to Kentucky where he was one of the early pioneers and had some encounters with the Indians. He, like his brother, Harry, purchased land and settled in that part of Nelson Co., Ky, known as the Pottinger Creek settlement, where he spent the remainder of his days.

More About Charles Hill:
Residence: Nelson Co., Kentucky

More About Margaret Nichols:
Residence: Nelson Co., Kentucky

iv.

Mary Hill, born 1766 in St. Mary's Co., Maryland; died December 05, 1854; married Jeremiah Herbert November 15, 1786 in Frederick Co., Maryland; born 1763; died July 22, 1833.

Notes for Mary Hill:
Mary Hill was the second daughter of Thomas Hill and his wife, Rebecca. She was born in St. Mary's County, Maryland. On Nov. 15, 1786 she married Jeremiah Herbert (veteran of the Revolutionary War) in Frederick Co., Maryland. Jeremiah Herbert is included in the 1790 census of Maryland and the 1810 census of Kentucky. It is presumed that the Fogles and Herberts came to Kentucky a few hears later that the rest of Thomas Hill's family.

Mary Herbert applied for a pension as the widow of Jeremiah Herbert, deceased, in the state of Kentucky, Washington Co., on March 25, 1839 at the age of 73. She said they were married in 1786 and that he died in 1833. According to Jeremiah Herbert's will the exact date of his death is July 22, 1833. The pension record further stated that Jeremiah Herbert was drafted in 1781 as a spy in the state of Maryland, County of St. Mary under Capt. John Mills and served two months in the spring of 1781. In this document is also listed their nine children and the dates of their birth. Two of these were not listed in John David Hill's book, so apparently they apparently died as children. Dorothy Hill Jarboe's date of birth can be gleaned from this same document. "Dorothy Jarboe made an oath that Jeremiah Herbert was married to her sister, Mary Hill, in the year 1786 and lived together until 1833, when he died with the cholera, that the said Dorothy Jarboe, formerly Dorothy Hill is now age 69."

The following is the content of the will of Jeremiah Herbert dated October 8, 1831:

"Being in good health, etc. I give to my beloved wife, Mary Herbert, the plantation I now live on containing 112 acres and her first choice of two Negroes, horse, and I leave her all of my other stock, my house hold and kitchen furniture during her single life. But she may give up to be sold or divided as much of the said property as she may think proper and at her death it is to be returned to my children and I leave also all the rest of my property, real and personal, to be sold and divided among my children, etc."

" I leave to Elizabeth Fogle formerly Elizabeth Hill and her heirs the just sum of $53.00 if she can be heard of. If not her, to be equally divided among her brothers and sisters. Also the same amount to Clement Hill or his heirs and $3.50 to Ally Clark."

The Herbert home was near St. Rose's Church in Washington County, Ky, where Mary Hill Herbert died December 5, 1854.

Source: Genealogy of Thomas Hill and Rebecca Miles by Sister Mary Louise Donnelly

More About Mary Hill:
Residence: Washington County, Kentucky

Notes for Jeremiah Herbert:
Mary Hill was the second daughter of Thomas Hill and his wife, Rebecca. She was born in St. Mary's County, Maryland. On Nov. 15, 1786 she married Jeremiah Herbert (veteran of the Revolutionary War) in Frederick Co., Maryland. Jeremiah Herbert is included in the 1790 census of Maryland and the 1810 census of Kentucky. It is presumed that the Fogles and Herberts came to Kentucky a few hears later that the rest of Thomas Hill's family.
Jeremiah Herbert was a veteran of the Revolutionary War.

Mary Herbert applied for a pension as the widow of Jeremiah Herbert, deceased, in the state of Kentucky, Washington Co., on March 25, 1839 at the age of 73. She said they were married in 1786 and that he died in 1833. According to Jeremiah Herbert's will the exact date of his death is July 22, 1833. The pension record further stated that Jeremiah Herbert was drafted in 1781 as a spy in the state of Maryland, County of St. Mary under Capt. John Mills and served two months in the spring of 1781. In this document is also listed their nine children and the dates of their birth. Two of these were not listed in John David Hill's book, so apparently they died as children. Dorothy Hill Jarboe's date of birth can be gleaned from this same document. "Dorothy Jarboe made an oath that Jeremiah Herbert was married to her sister, Mary Hill, in the year 1786 and lived together until 1833, when he died with the cholera, that the said Dorothy Jarboe, formerly Dorothy Hill is now age 69."

The following is the content of the will of Jeremiah Herbert dated October 8, 1831:

"Being in good health, etc. I give to my beloved wife, Mary Herbert, the plantation I now live on containing 112 acres and her first choice of two Negroes, horse, and I leave her all of my other stock, my house hold and kitchen furniture during her single life. But she may give up to be sold or divided as much of the said property as she may think proper and at her death it is to be returned to my children and I leave also all the rest of my property, real and personal, to be sold and divided among my children, etc."

" I leave to Elizabeth Fogle formerly Elizabeth Hill and her heirs the just sum of $53.00 if she can be heard of. If not her, to be equally divided among her brothers and sisters. Also the same amount to Clement Hill or his heirs and $3.50 to Ally Clark."

The Herbert home was near St. Rose's Church in Washington County, Ky, where Mary Hill Herbert died December 5, 1854.

More About Jeremiah Herbert:
Cause of Death: Cholera
Residence: Washington County, Kentucky

	245	v.		Dorothy Hill, born September 22, 1770 in Leonardtown, Maryland; died March 22, 1851 in Washington Co., Kentucky; married John Thomas Jarboe December 24, 1791.
		vi.		Aloysia Hill, born Abt. 1772 in Leonardtown, Maryland; died Aft. 1833; married Ignatius Clark February 02, 1797.

Notes for Aloysia Hill:
Aloysia Hill, the youngest daughter of Thomas Hill and Rebecca Miles, emigrated with her father to Kentucky, and remained with him at his home on Cartwright's Creek, Washington Co, until her marriage to Ignatius Clark. Ignatius Clark was the son of Basil Clark and the nephew of the Rt. Reverend Edward Fenwick, first Bishop of Cincinnati and founder of St. Rose Church.

The Clark homestead was near the present Holy Cross Church (the first catholic church in Kentucky), in Marion County, Kentucky. John David Hill remarks that "Allie Clark, as she was generally known by her neighbors and friends, was noted for her piety and kindness to the sick and needy of the community." No exact date for her birth, marriage, or death are known, but she was still living at the the time of Jeremiah Herbert's death in 1833.

Four of her seven children entered the service of the church, one as a priest and three in the order of Loretto.

More About Aloysia Hill:
Residence: Holy Cross, Ky

Notes for Ignatius Clark:
Ignatius Clark was the son of Basil Clark and the nephew of the Rt. Reverend Edward Fenwick, first Bishop of Cincinnati and founder of St. Rose Church.

More About Ignatius Clark:
Residence: Holy Cross, Ky

vii.

Clement Hill, born March 22, 1776 in Leonardtown, Maryland; died December 13, 1832; married Mary Hamilton November 13, 1798; born May 30, 1782; died June 11, 1833.

Notes for Clement Hill:
The Lebanon Enterprise on August 11, 1960 carried an article about the home of Clement Hill entitled "Builder Born with Nation - Home Nearing 130 Years Mark." The following are a few paragraphs from the article:

"This old brick house on the St. Rose Road about two miles from the city limits, now owned and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Reynolds, is 128 years old. It was built by Clement Hill, who was born at Leonardtown, Maryland on March 28, 1776--before the Declaration of Independence was signed - and came to Kentucky in 1787 as an 11 year old boy with his father, Thomas Hill. "

"The brick house, completed in 1832 - three stories tall, with outer and inner walls 14 inches thick and great bricked in stone chimeys -- even with an ample supply of slave labor, must have been many months in the building. The observer notes at a glance that these are not ordinary bricks. Mellowed in color and actually welded together with age, though sturdy as when new, they were made of clay burned on the place. Foundations are of hewn stone, woodwork is of cherry, and the beautiful spiral stairway, with solid cherry rail and ash trends, is hand-carved all the way to the third floor, though the attic rooms -large, airy, and well-lighted - apparently were never finished for use."

More About Clement Hill:
Burial: St. Rose Cemetary, Springfield, Kentucky
Cause of Death: Cholera
Residence: Lebanon, Ky

More About Mary Hamilton:
Burial: St. Rose Cemetery, Springfield, Kentucky
Cause of Death: Cholera
Residence: Lebanon, Ky

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