Alexander HILL, JR.
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.
Some record say Agnes born Perth, Perth, Scotland
SOURCES OF INFORMATION: 1. Family Record book of Blanche M. Belcher 2. SL Temple Record William emigrated with his family to Nauvoo in 1841. He crossed the plains to Utah in 1849. He served in the Utah War from 1857 to 1858. He was called to serve in the Black Hawk War in 1866. He was "haunted by the officers" during the raid of 1885. (Charges of polygamy??? - my own presumption). He served a mission to England from about 1886 to 1888. He was arrested upon his return home and served a seventy-day term in the penitentiary. He was called to be the president of the sixty-first Quorum of Seventy. He was superintendent of the Sunday School and later first counselor to Bishop James C. Hamilton in 1900. William is mentioned on the Nauvoo List of Members.
Elizabeth came to Utah with her parents in the Allen Taylor Company under the command of Captain Reuben Warren Allred, October 15, 1849. They settled in Millcreek. She met and married John Park at the age of sixteen. They lived at Millcreek for 23 years. In 1879 the family moved to Granger to live. In 1884, at the organization of the Granger Ward, she was schosen to be 1st counselor to the President of the Relief Society.
Her sister, LIzzie Park, acted as midwife and was with her at the birth of all fourteen of her babies.
He married Agnes Hood 6 Apr 1832 at Tosoronto Twp., Simcoe, Ontario, Canada . Agnes Hood was born at Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland 5 Mar 1811 daughter of James Hood and Jane Margaret Bilsland .
They were the parents of 13
children:
Margaret Hill
born 13 Jan 1833.
Margaret Ann Hill
born 1 May 1834.
Alexander Hood Hill
born 18 Jan 1836.
James Hood Hill
born 9 Dec 1837.
William Hood Hill
born 22 Feb 1840.
Elizabeth Hood Hill
born 22 Feb 1840.
Moroni Hood Hill
born 2 Jun 1842.
Agnes Hood Hill
born 16 Jan 1845.
Nephi Hood Hill
born 1847.
Isabella Hood Hill
born 18 Aug 1849.
Joseph Robert Hood Hill
born 8 Feb 1851.
Jane Mary Hill
born 18 Jan 1855.
Hyrum Hood Hill
born 25 Jun 1857.
Alexander Hill, Jr. died 8 Feb 1889 at Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah .
Agnes Hood died 16 Feb 1872 at Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah .