Jacob Hill (b. 1802)

HILL, SMITH

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 9/21/2002 at 20:54:18

Hill, Jacob, farmer, Section 29 (Fairfield township); PO Brush Creek; born in Miffin Co., Penn., March 26, 1802; in 1814, he, with parents, emigrated to Perry Co., Ohio, where he married Eliza Smith Nov. 3, 1824; she was born in Mifflin Co., Penn., Nov. 17, 1806; in 1832 they moved to Michigan and , in 1842, they moved to Indiana, when, in November, 1853, they emigrated and settled on their present farm, consisting of 246 acres, worth $7,500. Republican; member of Christian church. Washington, Jonathan, George, Eleazer, Charity, Ann E., Mary E. and Jacob are the names of their children. Eleazer, the next to youngest son, enlisted in Co. I, 16th Regt. I. V. I., Dec. 15, 1861; and was taken prisoner and confined in Andersonville prison fourteen months; honorably discharged, July, 1865.

Page 609, "1878 History of Fayette County, Iowa"