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| Will from Spalding County, Georgia Death: February 22, 1852 --Probate: March 22, 1852 |
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HILL, JOHN G.
Elizabeth was left in the will all the household and kitchen furniture and furnishings. No Names of Children Were Given There were some debts owing to the brothers listed below: |
James H. Hill, the fifth of seven children, three of whom are
now living,
received his primary education in the common schools, and later
attended
Marshall College, Georgia. He came to Louisiana in 1858, located
in De Soto
Parish, and there continued until the breaking out of the war,
when he joined
the Army of Northern Virginia, under Gens. Lee and Jackson, and
continued with
this until the close of hostilities. He was captured only three
days before
the final surrender, and released in June, 1865. Returning to
Natchitoches
Parish after the war he embarked in the receiving, forwarding
and wholesale
grocery business, at Grand Coteau, La., which business was successfully
conducted for six years, when he purchased a plantation on Red
River, with a
view of making a fortune out of cotton, at 25 cents a pound. This
he
continued for ten years, but the fortune came not. Then he embarked
in the
merchandising business, and recognizing the great need of improved
machinery
in farming, undertook to introduce them in his locality. In this
he was
successful. He abandoned farming in 1879, and engaged in his present
occupation, in the meantime establishing the largest commercial
house ever
opened in Robeline. This, however, proved unsuccessful, being
established in
1883, and closed in 1887.
Since the last named year Mr. Hill has been representing the
great Gullet Gin
Company, of Amite City, La., as traveling salesman, and through
his influence
said company has been handling all lines of machinery. In four
years sales
this company has not lost over one per cent in bad debts, through
the sales
made by Mr. Hill. The firm of Hill & Jones now represents
the great Gullett
Gin company, of Louisiana; the Mutual Life, of New York, and the
following
five insurance companies of New Orleans: Mechanic's & Trader's,
Mutual, Sun,
Crescent and the Home. The Red River Hedge Company, organized
September 1,
1890, at Natchitoches, unanimously elected Mr. Hill as general
manager of that
company, contrary to his wishes, on account of so much other business.
In
politics Mr. Hill has been a life long Democrat and in 1885 declined
the
office of clerk of the Eleventh District court, at the hands of
Gov. S. D.
McEnery, on account of the death of Clerk G. W. Kearney. Mr. Hill
is at
present a member of the parish school board, and for about five
years was a
member of the jury commission of the parish of Natchitoches, appointed
by
Judge D. Pierson. Mr. Hill is one of the best business men in
this section.
He was married in 1868, to Miss Mary R. Hyams, daughter of
Col. Samuel M. and
Emily (Prudhomme) Hyams, and niece of Ex Gov. Hyams. To Mr. and
Mrs. Hill
were born nine children: Rosa, Samuel H., Adeline S., Berth L.,
Cora L., James
H., Eswell, Flowers and Matilda. Samuel H. is not twenty years
of age, and id
bookkeeper in one of the largest wholesale houses in Shreveport,
viz: N. Gregg
& Son. Miss Ross is a graduate of the State Normal School,
and is now one of
the most successful teachers in the parish. Mr. Hill has been
a Mason for
twenty five years, and is a member of Phoenix Lodge No. 38. He
is also a
member of the A. L. of H. and Natchitoches Lodge No. 89, of K.
of P. He is
one of the leading men of this part of Louisiana.
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