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Family Sheet

HUSBAND
Name: William Francis Hill Jr Note Born: 7 Jul 1829 at , , , Scotland Married: 12 Oct 1867 at South Natick, , , MA Died: 12 Dec 1873 at Needham, , , MA
WIFE
Name: Amelia Augusta Johnson Note Born: 17 Jan 1841 at Boston, , Suffolk, MA Died: 13 Mar 1930 at Boston, , Suffolk, MA Father: John Henry Johnson Mother: Mary Ann Patch
CHILDREN
Name: George Cary Hill Born: 12 Jul 1868 at Needham, , , MA Died: 29 Sep 1929 at Boston, , Suffolk, MA Wife: Louise Pauline Oestreicher
Name: Edward Francis Hill Born: 26 Feb 1870 at Needham, , , MA Died: 6 Apr 1870 at Needham, , , MA
Name: Amelia C Hill Born: 18 Apr 1871 at Needham, , , MA Died: 8 Jul 1902 at Roxbury, , Suffolk, MA Husband: Frank Edgar Riley
Name: Louisa F Hill Born: 6 Dec 1873 at Needham, , , MA Died: 14 Feb 1877 at Needham, , , MA
Name: Herbert Edward Hill Born: 27 Apr 1881 at Boston, , Suffolk, MA Died:
NOTES
1). William Francis Hill, Jr. was born in Scotland, probably in Fife. Fife, or Fifeshire, a maritime county of 505 square miles and a population of 303,265, is in east Scotland between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Tay. The county town is Cupar. Fife is in the Scottish lowlands but the Lomond Hills are 1500 feet high. Fife is well cultivated in the valleys of Eden and Leven. Fife is one of the most prosperous counties with coal mining, linen manufacturing, brewing, and shipbuilding. Anciently, it was the home of the Picts. Saint Andrews golf and university are located there. Dunfermline is noted for its historic associations and Andrew Carnegie was born there. William Francis Hill, Jr. came to the US from Scotland sometime before the Civil War and became a paper manufacturer along with his family of Hills. He married Granny Amelia Augusta Johnson on October 10, 1867 by the Reverend Horatio Alger in Natick. It was the first marriage for both. He is listed in the 1870 Census as a paper manufacturer.
2).  Not listed as one of Granny,s children is Herbert Edward Hill.  The Hill family bible had an erasure about the death date of Granny  s husband, William Francis Hill, Jr.   It stated that William Francis Hill, Jr. died on December 12, 1880.  The actual date is December 12, 1873.  He was 43 years, 6 months. This fabrication was to protect the illegitimacy of Herbert Edward Hill, born on April 27, 1881.  His father is unknown.   In the year 1873 on February 18, Granny  s father, John Henry Johnson, died.  The following December , on the sixth, Louisa Foster Hill was born and six days later Granny  s husband, William Francis Hill. Jr., died on December 12 of double pleuro pneumonia.During this year of 1873 Granny was raising a 4 5 year old  George Cary Hill , mourning infant Edward who was born in 1870 and lived but five weeks, and raising also Amelia, born in 1871.  Louisa died in 1877 aged three and Granny  s mother, Mary Ann Patch, aged 77, died in January 1881. Also in 1881, Herbert Edward Hill was born to Granny  out of wedlock  who was to shoot and wound his mother and kill his pregnant sister Alice  Birth name of Amelia  Chambers Hill Riley in 1902.  Granny lived with her son George  Papa  and  her daughter in law Louise  Mama  all her life.  Mama always called her mother in law  Mrs. Hill .  Granny outlived her only child and son George and succumbed to the effects of a broken hip at age 89.  Her fears were of the sea  so many Newburyport and Ipswich kin had been lost. She had several heavy gold wedding bands of the deceased.  She often secretly smoked a small pipe  using Papa  s cigar tobacco  and was greatly admired by all her grandchildren.  Of interest is her marriage to William Francis Hill, Jr. which took place in South Natick, Massachusetts by the Reverend Horatio Alger  Whether this was the rags to riches author or his son, I do not know   Apparently WFH  s family disapproved of the marriage and there was a rumor that he had left another wife in Scotland where he was born and from where he emigrated sometime before the Civil War. The Needham census lists him as  paper manufacturer  Apparently Mary Ann Patch  Granny  s mother  had moved from Newburyport to Boston and lived in various addresses with her mother  Lydia Fletcher Patch   and Captain Nathaniel Fletcher, Lydia  s brother, is listed as living on Richmond Street in the Boston Street Directory.   See Boston Street Directories 1830 1845. Lydia Fletcher was listed as  widow Patch  and mention is also made of a lodger, John Henry Johnson, a rigger.  He was to become Mary Ann Patch  s husband and Granny  s father.  Marriage records ofthis period are non existent because of the great fire in Boston which destroyed practically all vital records 1830 1850.  I remember Granny saying   Red sky in morning  Sailors take warning  Red sky at night  Sailors delight.   And she also told Ruthie and me as we said our prayers at bedtime that  The Bible was written by the Hand of God  And, too   A whistling girl and a cackling hen always come to a bad end.  When Papa died Granny kept saying  Why wasn  t it me?  and I guess Mama agreed that it should have been.  Granny adored Billy, Named for her husband of five years and used to say    He  s a good boy but they hector him.  I remember her archaic language.   depot ,  sacque   coat ,  bonnet  and always  Child, fetch me....whatever she wanted.  She ate tripe with Papa and in very old age secreted oranges and apples in her shoes in her closet.  Her niece was married to a Heath  later Cunningham  in Brookline  Heath School, Heath Street etc  and Pine Manor College  s present administration building had been the4 Heath home.  I remember a limousine bearing Mrs. Cunningham coming to our house at 284Dean Road, Brookline, shortly before or after Granny  s death. prayers at bedtime that  The Bible was written by the h

						

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