Hill, Robert M.

HILL, ALEXANDER

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HILL, Robert M.
Farmer; Sec. 14; P. O. Newton; born in Tyrone Co., Ireland, in 1829; emigrated to America in 1853, and to Jasper County in 1854; has 150 acres of land, valued at $45 per acre. Married Miss Annie ALEXANDER in 1865; she was born in Linn Co., Iowa, in 1840; they have seven children-Bessie, Renwick A., Annie M., M. Irwin; Kate A., Robert J., Susie M. Hugh, died in September, 1877. Members of the United Presbyterian Church. Mr. HILL went to Kansas in May, 1856, as the Pro-slavery war was breaking out; crossed the Missouri River at St. Jo, just before the boats were taken by the Pro-slavery party; was taken prisoner by that party, robbed of $210 in gold, team and wagon, and left bound and gagged, but managed to escape, and in time recovered his team and wagon, but not his money. The account of it getting into the Eastern papers, thence into the Jasper County paper, and his people supposing him dead, his funeral sermon was preached; he afterward returned to his home in Jasper County, and is now a worthy citizen of that county. ~ "Palo Alto Township Biographies," The History of Jasper County, Iowa, (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)