Son of Hardy Hill, Sr. & Margaret Wallace.
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REV. ISAAC HILL
Rev. Isaac Hill was born on the 22 December 1784 and professed religion when he was 36 years of age
in the state of Indiana under the administration of the first Cumberland Presbyterian ministers who crossed the Ohio River and immediately joined the church. He had a great desire to live 36 years more,that he might spend in the service of God as he had spent in wondering away from Him. He very soon Began to be impressed with a sense of public duties and and accordingly began to exhort the people to seek salvation in Christ. He had to travel a long distant to meet the Kentucky Presbytery to become a candidate for the ministry. It was indeed with great difficulty and some dangers that he made his way from Vigo County, Indiana, across the Ohio River when the waters were very high, to where the Presbytery convened. He was licensed to preach by Indiana Presbytery.

He made a visit to the State of Illinois in September 1826 and attended the first camp meeting held in the eastern part of the state. He and Rev. John Knight, who also was a licentiate, were the only ministers present. It was then and there that a revival of religious commenced which diffused its blessing far and wide. Bro. Hill from that time visited that congregation statedly until he removed within it bounds in the Spring of 1828. None of our pioneer ministers were more earnest or zealous in the Master's work. He had a very strong and powerful voice, Both in preaching and singing, and was eminently suited to camp meeting work.

He met Vandalia Presbytery at Mount Zion, Illinois, in June, 1833 at which time (June 16) he was ordained to the whole work of the ministry. Rev. Joel knight preached the ordination sermon, Rev John. Barber, Jr., presided and Rev. John Barber, Sen., gave the charge.

Bro. Hill repeatedly traversed almost all of the ground which now comprises the Presbyteries of Foster and Hill, and part if Vandalia and Decatur Presbyteries. He laid many foundations on which others have built, as his field of labor was so large. Their was not minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church nearer than sixty miles in this state for at least 8 years after he began to preach here, and the first within that bound was Rev. James Ashmore, who was converted and brought to the ministry in Old Big Creek Congregation where Bro. Hill resided and labored so faithfully till the weight of years and constant labors prostrated his manly form. It is not al all Likely that so many ministers have come out of any other congregation the state as from the fores said congregation; and for his work's sake we think his memory to a more consideration than any other minister, whose field of labor has been within that Emphatically he labored, "not for that meat which perisheth" for the whole amount he received during the time of his ministry would make little if any more than a comfortable salary for one year at the present time. Large number of souls have been Brought to the Saviour by work he hath wrought for the generous Master in his vineyard. Although his labors are ended and nearly three decades have passed over the little mound which now Marks the place where the torn-worn soldier's manly form now rests he"yet speaketh.'

A HISTORY OF THE CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN ILLINOIS, By J. B. Logan,D.D., Published in Alton, IL 1878 by Perrin & Smith. Biographical by Rev J. W. Wood.