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Subject: Re: Luvenia Reddock Wiley Sims
Date: 20 Mar 2005 18:18:17 -0700
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Surnames: Sims, Vinson, Hilson, Austin, Wright - Sims, Bottoms, Hartsfield
Classification: Query
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The book you are referring to might be "Butler County in the Nineteeth Century" by Marilyn Davis Hahn. Marilyn was my father's first cousin and I descend from Sarah Hilson Reddock through her first marriage to Aaron Hilson. We do not know what Sarah's maiden name was. Marilyn's book discusses the Hilson's after they migrated to Butler Co., AL. This is what I know, but most of this is early part (before Butler Co., AL) is not in Marylin's book:
Aaron Hilson was the son of John Hilson (Sr.) and Diannah (nicknamed "Dicey"), one of five sons and four daughters. Aaron's three brothers were named Lewis, John and William Hilson. We don't know the daughter's names. John Sr. was from England and there is evidence that he was transported to the U.S. as a convicted felon (we do not know his offence - possibly political) and served in the Revolution. Aaron was born about 1774-5 in SC, in Marlboro Co., Cheraw Dist. John Sr. and Dicey Hilson migrated to to GA where John died in 1802 in Baldwin Co. . He was in the State Militia. Dicey Hilson died in Warren Co. in 1800. I have a note that there was a will but I am not sure if this was John's in Baldwin Co. or Dicey's in Warren Co.. Aaron Hilson married Sarah (maiden name unknown) in Warren Co. GA (I do not have a date). Aaron died in 1813 in Milledgeville, GA. I have not found his burial location. After Aaron's death Sarah took her two children, Lucinda "Rulincy" Hilson and Pink!
ney W. Hilson and migrated to Butler Co. AL in 1814 by covered wagon one week after Col. Butler was killed by Indians. I have a note that she married Reddock in Baldwin Co. on 9-14-1814. They must have married before migrating to Butler CO. AL. Her children by her second marriage were; Louvinia Reddock, who married Wiley Sims; Rachel F. Reddock; William Reddock and John H. Reddock. Sarah Hilson Reddock died 2-7-1859 and her death was noted in the Alabama Mortality Schedule of 1860 (taken every ten years). Sarah also had a will and the estate was probated.
Sarah's son, Pinkney W. Hilson, from whom I descend was born 1813-14 in GA. He married Anna E. Odom 2-7-1832 according to his family Bible. The Bible listed them to have 12 children. The only thing I can find out about Anna E. Odom Hilson is that she was born in SC in 1820 and died in Butler Co. AL 10-5-1887. She seems to have some family connection with the Odom, Beverley and Stubbs families of Marlboro Co. SC. since she held a long on-going correspondence with a lawyer there trying to claim an inheritance. We believe her father to be William Odom (1800 - c. 1850) originally from Bennetsville, Marlboro Co. SC (but this is not proven). Pinkney W. Hilson died in August of 1853 in Butler Co. I descend from their daughter, Sarah Nancy Audelia Hilson and her husband Rev. Alexander Theodore Sims. Rev. A. T. Sims, who was the nephew of Wiley Sims, who married Louvenia Reddock. A.T.'s father, Arthur Sims Sr. and Wiley Sims were the sons of Stephen Sims and Rhoda A. T. (maiden name !
unknown) of Butler Co. AL. That's a whole other story, so I will stop here.
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