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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Ashley County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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J. R. Hill. In the State of Alabama, there was born to James Hill and wife the subject of this sketch, whose birth took place in the year 1855. He was brought to this State by his parents in 1858, and after residing on Beech Creek for eight or nine years, he was brought to his present abode, and in this State was reared to manhood and educated, his opportunities however, for becoming a good scholar being rather limited. In the year 1878 he settled on the farm where he now lives, which consists of 140 acres, and he has thirty acres under cultivation, his average yield of cotton per acre being about one-half bale, and corn, twenty bushels, fruit of nearly all kinds being raised in abundance. Mr. Hill is an intelligent, well informed and enterprising gentleman, and as he commenced life a poor boy with limited education, and is now in the possession of a comfortable competency, he deserves and has the confidence and respect of all. His worthy wife, before her marriage in 1877, was Miss Magie Adams, a daughter of Joseph Adams, of Louisiana, who died when she was a child, and to their union the following five children have been born: Willie, Lewis, Walter, Harry and Ollie. Mr. Hill supports the measures of the Democrat party, and in 1889 was elected constable of his township, a position he still holds. He is also school director, a member of the Farmers’ and Laborers’ Union of America, and he and Mrs. Hill belong to the Baptist Church.

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This family biography is one of 97 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Ashley County, Arkansas published in 1890.  For the complete description, click here: Ashley County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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