John Hill
Birth: 8 Feb 1790, Pennsylvania, USA Source:
Death: 17 Mar 1885, Sinking Creek, Gilmer Co., West Virginia, USA Source: Vitals: Gilmer Co., West Virginia, Deaths
Father: James Hill *
Mother: Mary Catherine (Hill) *
- Married Keturah Cunningham on 25 Apr 1816 at Harrison Co., West Virginia, USA
Notes: Carrie Carte, in the Forebears and Descendants of William "Billy" Taylor and Mahala Cromwell , gives John's wife as Sarah Kiger, m. 15 Feb 1839 in Kanawha County. However, John and Ketu rah Hill of Wood County, on 28 March 1835, sell their interest in James Wood's 30,000 acres i n Kanawha Co. to John Snyder, who was a neighbor, friend, and business partner of John's brot her Henry. He was also a minister and married Henry Robert Hill and Caroline Cosby Taylor.
The 1850 Census lists John as born in Pennsylvania, 1860, Monongalia Co., 1880, Pennsylvania , and his death record lists his birthplace as Pennsylvania.
He is living with daughter Mary and her husband Hannibal Wilson in 1880, but not listed on hi s own or with any of his children or siblings in 1870.
From Minnie Kendall Lowther's History of Richie County:
"Leatherbarke
This stream, which flows into the South fork of Hughes river, below Smithville, took its nam e from the numerous growth of leatherbarke upon its banks.
John Hill. - As so many dates are missing, we have been unable to determine which was the fir st settler on this creek, but this distinction probably belongs to John Hill, who built his c abin on the Alfred Barr farm, at a very early date. Mr. Hill was a native of Harrison county , having been born on February 8, 1790; and on April 25, 1816, he was married to Miss Ketura h Cunningham, daughter of Edward, and niece of Thomas Cunningham, who was also a native of Ha rrison county; and from this vicinity, they went to Gilmer county, where Mr. Hill fell asleep ; on March 17, 1885, and there on the George S. Bush homestead (now the John Ellison farm), b eside his wife, he sleeps. Their children were as follows: Celia, who became Mrs. Wm. Holbert ; Anna, Mrs. John S.. Holbert; Mary, Mrs. Hannibal B. Wilson; Daniel, who died in his youth , all of Gilmer county; and the late Enoch R. Hill, of near Burnt House, this county. The fam ily have all passed on, but among the grandsons and granddaughters of this pioneer are, Floy d Hill, and Mrs. Harriet Fling, Burnt House; Moses Holbert, Mrs. Phillip Engle, Mrs. Willia m Reeser, and quite a number of others, of Gilmer county. Mr. and Mrs. Hill were members of t he first M. E. church organization in this county, and their descendants still cling to thi s faith. "
Churches
The year 1810 was marked by the first church organizations. The Reverend Thomas Cunningham, w hose interesting history occupies a preceding chapter, was the first minister in the Hughes r iver valley. He laid the foundation for Methodism in this wilderness, in Ritchie county. He c ame here in 1807 and entered upon his ministry the following year; and in 1810,the first Meth odist Episcopal class was organized at his home, near Frederick's mill, where Henry Barker no w lives. Among the original members of this class were-James and Benjamin Hardman, John Wigne r, senior, John Hill, Jabez Elliott, and John Wilson, with their wives.
BIRTH: Birth listed as Monongalia Co. in 1860 Census
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