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From: "Claudia McGough" <>
Subject: Swinfield, William, Charles Hill
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 19:32:11 -0400


I've been dabbling in researching my Hill family for several years now and
would like some information from some of you all who are experts in the
Swinfield Hill line. My Hill ancestors are out of the Burke Yancey Mitchell
NC area near what is now Buladean. My great great grandfather was a William
Hill who married Sarah "Sallie" Herrell. They are buried in the old and
forgotten "Hill Cemetery" there across from the Buladean Elementary School
along with their son and my great grandfather Charles Hill. Several have
given me undocumented information that William's father was a Charles Hill
(Sr.) who first appears in the 1819 Burke County Tax list and then in the
Burke 1820 census. Charles was married to a Dicy (Adkins - Pierce ?) Hill
and the 1850 Yancey census states them as being born around 1789.

Has anyone come across any information about a Charles Hill being connected
to the William and Swinfield Hill, that everyone seems to be related to from
that area?

Also does anyone have any information about an area near Buladean called
""Hill Holler (Hollow)?"

Has anyone in the Swinfield / William Hill group gone through the DNA
testing and if so what were the results?

Also for those interested, Several years ago I was exploring some old files
at a local historical society and came across some old film negatives, one
of which was of an old building. Notes and a diagram accompanied the
negative stating that it was the "HILL - GARLAND House"... "Local tradition
holds that this picturesque, one story house, now used as a barn, is the
oldest remaining dwelling in the Beans Creek vicinity. It is believed by
the present owner that the first owner, Billy Hill, constructed the original
single pen, half dovetail log structure with side gable roof and rubble,
fieldstone exterior and chimney many years before it was purchased by W. M.
Garland in 1856. Some believe the house to have been there approximately 75
years before then."

I've collected from some generous Hill researchers copies of some older
photos of some of the descendents from this (my) line. Would be interested
in trading sharing copies of older photos of other descendents of this old
Burke County Hill Family line. I also have photographs of the old
tombstones at the old Hill Cemetery...(at least what we could find under the
7 foot briars that caught in our clothes, skin and hair as we tried to
photograph them in a total blood bath in 1999.)

The Swinfield/William Hill line sure seems like a hard nut to crack. I
think deep down we all know we're related...after all that old Burke/Yancey
area was nothing but wilderness back when old Swinfield and William settled
there. But...its just not the same is it unless we got some ancient scrap
of paper saying its so. That old area was torn apart during the Civil War
and most families got divided...brother against brother...it sure would be
nice to reunite that old Burke County Hill Family.





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