Alexander Joseph HILL

                   Fern Petersen, Alex's daughter (my great-grandmother) paid the
following tribute to her father:

"He loved his fellowmen, but most of all he loved little children.  He
always smiled when things hurt him most.  His creed -- to praise all
good, but never boast;  to measure faults with a liberal rule.

Friends and loved ones are life's most hallowed treasures."

Joseph, first assistant superintendent of the Granger Ward Sunday school, was born Dec. 12, 1860, at Mendon, Cache county, Utah, the son of Wiliam Hood Hill and Mary Carolina Sørensen. While a young man he worked on his father's farm, on the railroads and canals. He was superintendent and director of the North Jordan Irrigation Company for twenty-four years. In 1862 his parents left Mendon and moved to Mill Creek, and in 1882 Alexander moved to Granger, where he has resided ever since. He was baptized June 3, 1869, by William Luck, and confirmed the same day by Bishop Reuben Miller. In 1883 (May 31st) he married Betsy Ann Bawden (daughter of Henry Bawden and Sarah F. Howard), who was born Feb. 14, 1861, in Mill Creek, Salt Lake co., Utah, and became the mother of fourteen children. She has been a prominent Relief Society worker, having acted as secretary of the Ward Relief society since 1884; she was also first counselor in the Primary association for a number of years in Mill Creek Ward. Brother Hill received the Priesthood in 1883, being ordained to the office of an Elder March 26, 1883. He was ordained a Seventy Jan. 25, 1885, by John T. Evans, and a High Priest Feb. 16, 1908, by Bishop Orrin P. Miller. He was president of the Granger Ward M. I. A. for five years, and has acted as assistant superintendent of the Granger Sunday school since March 16, 1884. In a civil capacity Bro. Hill has served as constable for eight years and school trustee for ten years. His occupation has been farming and stockraising.
(Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 4 vols. [Salt Lake Cit 456.)