Hill, Bert

HILL, STANLEY, ALUM, GIBBS, EUBANK, BALMER, BOBZIN, BOOTMEYER, SMITH, VANCE

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Date: 8/31/2009 at 08:07:53

Hill, Bert

"Bert" Hill, the name by which he is familiarly known by everyone, whose initials are M. G., is a son of J. B. and Elizabeth (Stanley) Hill, than which no better nor finer family ever lived in Jasper County, Iowa. Natives of the Hoosier state, they early came to Iowa and settled in Buena Vista Township. Mr. Hill was a successful farmer and a good business man, owning at one time in the neighborhood of six hundred acres of land in parts of sections 2, 3, 10 and 11 in Buena Vista Township, and at the time of his death, which occurred in February 1900, at the age of sixty-two, he possessed four hundred and eighty acres. He was a man of great public spirit and one of the substantial men of his community. He left to mourn his loss a wife and eight children, as follows: W. E. married Emma Alum, and now lives in Idaho; Charles E. married Beulah Gibbs, and resides on a farm in Kellogg Township; Mary, wife of E. M. Eubank, resides in Maxwell, Iowa; Dora, wife of James Balmer, lives in Kellogg Township; Bert, the subject of this review; Howard married Clara Bobzin, and lives in Buena Vista Township; Anna, the wife of Scott Smith, resides in Buena Vista Township; Leslie is living in Kellogg, Iowa, with his mother.

Mrs. Elizabeth Hill, the mother, still retains possession of the old Hill homestead of one hundred and sixty acres, although residing in Kellogg. Most of the land owned by Mr. Hill, Sr., which descended to the children, has been sold and the family have invested in other ventures or lands in other places. At this time "Bert" Hill is the owner of but twenty acres of land in Buena Vista Township, but he owns a quarter section of good land in Faulk County, South Dakota; he is also a part owner with his brother-in-law, Scott Smith, of a threshing machine outfit, and now owns two automobiles, He is a genial, good natured fellow-a "prince of good fellows." In 1898 he was united in marriage with Nellie Vance, and to this union has been born one child, a son, who answers to the name of Carroll, now in his eleventh year.

Living with Mr. Hill, and also farming, is his brother, Howard, born December 15, 1882, who, in 1904, married Clara Bobzin, daughter of Fred and Caroline (Bootmeyer) Bobzin, who reside in Kellogg, Iowa. Mrs. Howard Hill has two brothers, Henry and William, who live at home with their parents. Howard Hill began working for himself as a farmer, but afterward learned the barber trade, and in 1901 he sold his farm and moved to the city of Kellogg, where he worked at his trade until the spring of 1910, when he moved back to the farm, where he now lives with his brother, Bert. They have no children. Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912 Page 1286.