I am trying to locate Hill and Reed cousins who resided in Scott County, AR. According to two Death Certificates in TX, John W. Hill was married to Mary Ann Reed or Mary E. Reed (born 1822 in AL). John W. Hill was also known as Isaac Hill while living in Arkansas. Isaac and Mary Hill were living in Scott County, AR (Hickman Twp) in the 1850 census. Isaac's father, John Hill may have married in 1836 in Pope County, AR. Isaac Hill and Mary Reed were married around 1842 in Arkansas (possibly Scott or Pope County, AR). There are several Reed families in the 1850 census in Hickman Twp, Scott County, AR that may be relatives to Mary Reed. I have around 1,000 descendant of this Hill Family at my web site: http://www.rcasey.net (select Acrobat Versions, Brooks Family History, go to back of the book where the allied line Hill Family History is covered. Here is the current sketch on Mary (Reed) Hill:


JOHN W. HILL (aka Isaac Hill) (12) is the oldest proven Hill ancestor of the authors. John was born around 1822. Most census records indicate that John was born in Illinois but others indicated Arkansas and South Carolina. It is believed that John W. Hill changed his name from Isaac Hill to John W. Hill when he moved from Arkansas to Texas. Alta (Crapps) Leath gives the following account of John Hill’s change of name: my “older half brother (John W. Hill) had a problem with the law and, though he was innocent, he felt it best to leave the area. He moved with his family and his half brother, Eli Hill, and his half sister, Margaret Elizabeth Hill to Texas and changed his name to John W. Hill.” This name change is supported by census records in Arkansas and Texas. According to Certificate of Death of Mrs. Maggie Massey, John Hill married Mary Ann Reed.

According to Certificate of Death of Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Moore, John Hill married Mary E. Reed. Mary was born around 1822 in Alabama. In 1850, “Isaac” and Mary Hill were living in Scott County, Arkansas (federal census). In the 1850 Agricultural Census, Scott County, Arkansas lists: “Isaac Hill, 15 acres of improved land valued at $250.00 amd $5.00 worth of farming implements. He owned three horses, five milch cows, four other cattle and forty swine valued at $140.00. His farm had produced 200 bushels of Indian corn, 20 bushels of sweet pototoes and 20 pounds of butter valued at $15.00. He had slaughtered livestock valued at $20.00.

According his Confederate pension papers of John W. Hill’s younger half-brother, Eli Hill moved to San Marcos, Texas in 1856 (with his sister and much older half-brother, John W. Hill). This migration date to Texas is supported by numerous census records of John W. Hill and his children. Three census records of Nannie Hill (born 1855) indicate her birthplace as Arkansas - although one later census indicates a birthplace of Texas. The earliest census record of Magraret Hill (born 1858) indicates her birthplace as Arkansas - although three later census records indicate her birthplace was Texas. All seven census records of Benjamin Hill (born 1860) and James Hill (born 1866) indicate that they were born in Texas. Tax Rolls of Hays County, Texas clearly show John Hill living in Hays County, Texas by 1867 and other tax rolls suggest that John Hill resided in Hays County, Texas from 1863 through 1866 as well. John W. Hill’s half-sister, Margaret Hill, married in Hays County, Texas in 1867 and Rhoda Hill, daughter of John W. Hill, married in Hays County, Texas in 1868. John and Mary Hill were the parents of nine children:

.....Elijah J. Hill (12.1), b. September 29, 1844, Arkansas
.....Rhoda Hill (13), b. July 6, 1846, Arkansas
.....John “C.” Hill (12.3), b. December, 1849, Arkansas
.....Sarah Elizabeth Hill (12.4), b. May 14, 1850, Arkansas
.....Thomas H. Hill (12.5), b. November 8, 1853, Arkansas
.....Nancy J. Hill (12.6), b. January 11, 1855, Arkansas
.....Margaret Hill (12.7), b. November 28, 1858, Arkansas
.....Benjamin F. Hill (12.8), b. July 2, 1860, Texas
.....James M. “Robert” Hill (12.9), b. September 12, 1866, Texas

The 1867 Tax List of Hays County, Texas show John Hill paid taxes on no land, 12 horses ($150), 44 cattle ($170), misc. ($105). From 1870 to 1880, “John” and Mary Hill were living in Hays County, Texas. In 1878, John W. Hill had 160 acres of land surveyed for his homestead premption in Hays County, Texas. In 1881, John Hill sold this homestead land to R. W. Gibbs for $200. This land was located about two miles northeast of the Wimberley Cemetery. In 1882, John W. Hill and his son, Elijah J. Hill, purchased 640 acres of land located about about two miles northeast of the Wimberley Cemetery. In 1883, John W. Hill sold 320 acres of this land to Mrs. Bashbey Braswell for $350. John W. Hill died in 1895 in Hays County, Texas and Mary Ann (Reed) Hill died in 1898 in Hays County, Texas. Both were buried in the Wimberley Cemetery in Wimberley, Texas.

References: 1) Census, Isaac and Mary Hill, Scott County, Arkansas, Call Number 146, HH 266/266, 1850; 2) Census, John and Mary A. Hill, Hays County, Texas, Call Number 223, HH 4/4, 1870; 3) Census, John W. and Mary Hill, Hays County, Texas, ED 78, SH 7, 1880; 4) Certificate of Death of Mrs. Maggie Massey, State of Texas, 1918; 5) Certificate of Death of Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Moore, State of Texas, 1943; 6) Letter to heirs of Dosia (Moore) Davis from Kemp and Prud’homme, Attorneys at Law, Austin, Texas, March, 1964; 7) “Hays County Historical and Genealogy Quarterly,” (Wimberley Cemetery), Page 150, November, 1978; 8) Statement of Alta (Crapps) Leath, January, 1981; 9) 1850 Agricultural Census, Scott County, Arkansas, abstracted by Delaine Edwards, Fall, 1998