Alexander HILL, SR.

                   Baptized by Elder James Standing
                  

                   Sources of Information:

1.  Hill Family Hist by Daniel B H Richards p 11, 12, 15, 16, 38, 98, 110,
111, 115, 120, 122, 124, and 126.
2.  Salt Lake Temple records and Church Archives
3.  A Gen of James Bullock and Mary Hill (GS call no 929.273 B87616)
4.  Nauvoo 5th Ward Rec. (GS C No 2570 & 6502 pt 112)
5.  EH Sealings 25165 Pt 16. & Winter Q Rec 5134-A SLG 727
6.  Land Records of Tosorontio twp Ont. (GS 24621 F Ont T21 pt-5)

Necessary Explanations:

Some records say wife born Perth, Perthshire, Scotland
Husband's mother aka CURRY
Some records say husband and wife md Toronto, York, Ontario
Wife's mother aka BISLEN

Among the settlers on Mill Creek further down the valley were Mary Fielding Smith, widow of the martyred Patriarch Hyrum Smith, and members of his family. Other settlers, who arrived in 1848 and 1849, including the well-known Gardner family, Reuben Miller, Alexander Hill, Joseph Fielding and others, settled at various points on and near Mill Creek and Big Cottonwood Creek. Archibald Gardner and associates built a saw mill and subsequently a flouring mill, about two miles below the John Neff's mill site. In the winter of 1849-1850, religious services were held in Alex Hill's private residence on Big Cottonwood Creek. During the few following years meetings were held in private houses, and in 1853 the first school house, a small adobe building, was erected on the State Road, immediately north of Big Cottonwood Creek. Another small school house, known as the North School House, was built further east, and still another house, 20 by 30 feet, was built in 1855, near the point where the so-called Big Ditch crossed the County Road leading to Union Fort. A similar school house was built a short distance east of the first school house on Big Cottonwood Creek. Still later the so-called Scott School House was built near the northern limits of the ward. A good and substantial meeting house was erected in 1858. At the time of the general "Move" in April and May, 1858, the Mill Creek saints, who left their homes at the approach of Johnston's Army, located temporarily at Spanish Fork, Utah Co., Utah, and some of them at other places.
(Andrew Jenson, Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [Salt Lake City: Deseret News Publishing Co., 1941], 503.)

MILLER, Orrin Porter; born Sept. 11, 1858, at Mill Creek, Salt Lake Co., Utah; baptized June 16, 1867, by Edward F. M. Guest; ordained an Elder Nov. 6, 1881, by Alexander Hill, who was ordained a High Priest in 1853 by Reynolds Cahoon, who was ordained a High Priest June 3, 1831, by Joseph Smith; ordained a Seventy Feb. 10, 1884, by Enoch B. Tripp, who was ordained a Seventy Feb. 21, 1857, by Joseph Young; ordained a High Priest Aug. 8, 1886, by Angus M. Cannon, who was ordained a High Priest May 9, 1873, under the hands of Brigham Young and others.
(Andrew Jenson, Church Chronology: A Record of Important Events Pertaining to the History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1914], .)

On October 15, 1849, Alexander Hill Jr. and his family arrived in the Utah Territory traveling with the the Allen Taylor Company.
                  

                          Sunday night, August 30th, 1863, John Hill met with a tragic death,
as follows:  He and his nephew, Robert Hill, went to a field near by the
mill site where corn, carrots and sorghum were growing.  They had
already discovered that bears had been feasting on the carrots and corn
upon former occasions, and had concluded to ambush themselves, and
thus surprise the intruders.  Five young men from Hyrum, a small town
about four miles southeast of the mill, had also noticed similar ravages
produced by the bears, and had determined upon the same plan of getting
rid of these too familiar neighbors.
       John Hill and Robert Hill arrived at the scene of action first.
Creeping around the edge of the corn patch, in which they heard sounds as
if an intruder were there, the two men were sighted by the company of
men arriving from Hyrum.  Upon discovering the two objects, made
visible by the dim moonlight, this party of men mistook them to be the
game for which they were searching, halted and fired simultaneously.
Their illusions were instantly dispelled when John Hill, who had been
pierced by five or six bullets, sprang to his feet exclaiming, "Boys You
have riddled me now" and fell a corpse to the ground.

Hill Family History p.34
                  

                   In 1860, Archibald had a household of 12, a real wealth of $300, and a personal
wealth of $500.  Archibald came to Utah September 27, 1847 in the Abraham O.
Smoot Company.  He was in charge of the tithing office at the Salt Lake City for
15 years.  Missionary to England 1865-67, returning to Utah in charge of a company
of emigrants; missionary to the United States and Canada 1887-88, watchman at
Z.C.M.I. and Consitution Building for five years.  Archibald is listed on the Nauvoo
List of Members.