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Subject: Ga-Terrell-Stewart Co. Bios (Hill)
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Terrell-Stewart County GaArchives Biographies.....Hill, John Calhoun 1870 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
p. 852

JOHN CALHOUN HILL. Having accomplished a satisfactory work as a general
farmer, acquiring a competency to live upon, John Calhoun Hill is now living
retired from active business cares, near Dawson, enjoying to the utmost the
well-merited reward of his many years of unremitting toil. He was born, in 1851,
in Stewart county, Georgia, a son of Isaac and Emily (Stewart) Hill, of whom
further notice may be found on another page of this volume, in connection with
the sketch of Mr. Hill's brother, Andrew J. Hill.

John C. Hill was reared to a strong, self-reliant manhood on the parental
farm, obtaining his education in the rural schools of his neighborhood. He
became familiar with the various branches of agriculture while assisting his
father on the homestead, and naturally adopted farming as his occupation. Mr.
Hill did not become a landholder until after his marriage, his first piece of
property having been a tract of land in Stewart county, on which he lived and
labored industriously until 1879. Selling out in that year, he bought a farm in
Quitman county, and was there a resident for nine years. Disposing of that
property, Mr. Hill came to Terrell county, and having bought land four miles
west of Dawson, was there actively and successfully engaged in general farming
until 1912, in the meantime increasing the acreage of his farm by purchase. He
now occupies a farm lying near his original estate and is living retired from
active work.

Mr. Hill married, in 1873, Sarah Frances Bismuke, a daughter of William H.
and Maria (Green) Bismuke, pioneer settlers of Stewart county, where both spent
the closing years of their long and useful lives, Mrs. Bismuke attaining the
venerable age of four score and ten years. Mr. and Mrs. Hill are the parents of
eight children, namely: William Isaac, Miles Green, Addie Virginia, Alma, Pearl,
John Carter, Emily May, and Fanny Ethel.


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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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