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William H. Hill ranks among the energetic, honorable and successful business men of Union County, Ark., and for nearly fifteen years past has been a prosperous merchant of Three Creeks. He is a native of the county, born August 10, 1846, and is the fifth of a family of nine children born to W. H. and Elizabeth (Ainsworth) Hill, who moved from Simpson County, Miss., to Union County, Ark., about 1836, and located permanently in this county. The father was a man of energy, was a Democrat, politically, and he and his wife died in 1887 at the age of seventy-six and sixty-seven years, respectively. William H., their son, was brought up on a farm, his education being acquired in the common schools near his home, but in 1870 he determined to start out in life for himself and established a mercantile house near Three Creeks, which he conducted for eighteen months, after which he moved his stock of goods to El Dorado Landing, where he was in business for four years. Since that time he has been in Three Creeks, and he has attended strictly to each minor detail of his chosen calling, and cannot fail to succeed. His stock is complete and always fresh, its average worth being about $4,000. He sells about $5,000 worth on credit, collecting about 90 per cent of the amount sold, and also receives in cash for his goods some $5,000. He has land to the amount of 500 acres, 300 being under cultivation, which he rents for about $3 per acre. Mr. Hill enlisted as a private in the Confederate army in the early part of 1864, and served as a courier in Company A, in a Trans-Mississippi Battalion, with which he remained until the close of the war. He was married, on April 1, 1880, to Miss Alice Jones, a native of this county, and a daughter of S. A. and A. C. (Wroten) Jones, who were among the earliest settlers of this county. Mr. and Mrs. Hill have four children: Organ, Ernest, Grover and Dewitt. Mr. Hill is a Democrat, although not active, and is a law-abiding citizen and wide-awake business man. His grandfather figured conspicuously in the Revolutionary War.