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Rev Andrew Malone Hill

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Rev Andrew Malone Hill

Birth
Newberry, Newberry County, South Carolina, USA
Death
9 Jun 1916 (aged 74)
Madisonville, Madison County, Texas, USA
Burial
Madisonville, Madison County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Andrew Malone Hill was the eldest son of Rev. Jacob Albert Hill and Elizabeth Chapman Hill. The family moved to Tuscaloosa Alabama in the late 1850s and father Jacob served in the Alabama Senate and was a proponenet of secession. At the beginning of the war Andrew enlisted with the 16th Alabama Infantry and served for the duration of the war rising to the rank of Captain, although he did not know of his promotion from Lieutenant to Captain until the war had already ended. His brother John Paul Hill was killed in action at the Battle of Franklin, Tennesee. After the war he moved his family from Alabama to Texas and settled to farm near Normangee. He was ordained as a Baptist minister.

Obituary provided courtesy of findagrave contributor Gary W. Adams:

HILL, REV. A. M.
Normangee, Leon Co., Texas, June 9. – The Rev. A. M. Hill, aged about 72 years,
died at his home here this morning. He was an old citizen of Madison County, a
Baptist minister, a Mason and an ex-Confederate soldier. His body was buried
this afternoon in the Ten Mile Cemetery by the Masons. [Source: Dallas Morning
News (TX) Saturday, 10 June

Andrew Malone Hill was the eldest son of Rev. Jacob Albert Hill and Elizabeth Chapman Hill. The family moved to Tuscaloosa Alabama in the late 1850s and father Jacob served in the Alabama Senate and was a proponenet of secession. At the beginning of the war Andrew enlisted with the 16th Alabama Infantry and served for the duration of the war rising to the rank of Captain, although he did not know of his promotion from Lieutenant to Captain until the war had already ended. His brother John Paul Hill was killed in action at the Battle of Franklin, Tennesee. After the war he moved his family from Alabama to Texas and settled to farm near Normangee. He was ordained as a Baptist minister.

Obituary provided courtesy of findagrave contributor Gary W. Adams:

HILL, REV. A. M.
Normangee, Leon Co., Texas, June 9. – The Rev. A. M. Hill, aged about 72 years,
died at his home here this morning. He was an old citizen of Madison County, a
Baptist minister, a Mason and an ex-Confederate soldier. His body was buried
this afternoon in the Ten Mile Cemetery by the Masons. [Source: Dallas Morning
News (TX) Saturday, 10 June

Bio by: 76502Craig Connolly



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