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THOMAS HILL, dealer in grain, live stock, coal, and manufacturer of lime, senior member of the firm of Hill & Son, doing business at Sarcoxie, Carlton, Jasper, and Carthage, ship annually 200,000 bushels of grain, 40,000 of corn, 100,000 bushels of lime, besides shipping hundreds of cattle and hogs, and handling tons of coal. This firm of Hill & Son are among the most successful and energetic business men of the Southwest, and has been built up by strict and untiring vigilance, guided by keen business foresight. The Hill stock is of English origin, and although as a family they have been careless in preserving geneological records, the scattering remnants of historical data and the testimony of the now numerous branches of the family conspire to show that they all sprang from a common English parentage. While their history on the other side of the water cannot be traced, there is historic evidence of their settlement in America in the landing of the Pilgrims as the name of Hill is known to exist among the “101,” of the Mayflower crew. From this time down to the last century the lineal lines are difficult to trace, and given names can be followed only to an English origin. The grandfather of the subject of this sketch was an English man by birth, whose given name was Thomas, and is thought to have come to America during the revolutionary period. His son Nathan is known to have settled in Maryland, and is the father of Thomas Hill. He removed to Ohio. Thomas Hill was born in Miami county, Ohio, June 20, 1821, where he was raised and educated. His mother was Frances Williams, a native of Virginia. Thomas Hill was married in 1842 to Mary A. Yetter, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1828 of German descent Their children are Davis, Cyntha, William, and Orange Judd. In 1856 he removed to Livingstone county, Illinois, engaging in farming and stock-raising. In 1876 he became a citizen of Jasper county, where he has been actively engaged ever since in the stock, grain, and coal business with his son William, who conducts the lime business with Mr. Hubb. Nathan Hill, his father, lived on the same farm for sixty years in Ohio, and was the oldest settler of the county, and was actively engaged in the French and Indian wars. Mr. Thomas Hill is a deacon of the Congregational Church of Carthage, Missouri, and his wife is also a member and untiring worker, and both command the highest esteem and respect as citizens and earnest Christian, philanthropic people.