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George W. Hill, county clerk, and a prominent citizen of Dandridge, was born in Jefferson County, Term., December 9, 1855, and is the son of Rev, James M. and Sarah (Moore) Hill. The father, born in Jefferson County January 17, 1822, the son of James Hill, of the same county, was a farmer and Methodist minister, and was a leading citizen, whose death on March 27, 1882, was generally regretted. The paternal grandmother, Margaret, was a daughter of John Cowan, and for fourteen years of married life not a cross word passed between her and her husband. A presentiment of death must have led her, as she did, to pick out her burial place two weeks before the event occurred. The mother was born in this county October 25, 1821, the daughter of James Moore, and died December 14, 1868, a Christian lady of the Methodist faith. Our subject received his education at the common country schools, and attended college one term in Texas. He worked on the farm until 1873, then moved to central Texas, and engaged in stock raising, and in 1880 returned to engage in merchandise at Shady Grove. In August, 1882, he was elected justice, and in September was made chairman of the county court, and served four terms by re-election. Since 1883 he has been a justice of Dandridge, and since August, 1886, county clerk. From August, 1884, to November, 1885, he was post master at Dandridge, Tenn. He is a progressive man, and probably no officer has more of the confidence of the public than he. He has been greatly interested in education. December 24, 1878, he married Sallie D., a daughter of M. H. Kuykendall, a stock dealer of Texas, and a native of Tennessee. She was born on the Texas frontier January 16, 1859. Their three children are living. He and his wife are Methodists.