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Submitted: 6/9/17 • Approved: 9/13/17 • Last Updated: 6/27/19 • R123867-G0-S3
Birth: Nov. 6, 1810
Death: Aug. 22, 1886
Husband of Lucy Hill
Mason
See double marker with Lucy
Son of Green Berry Hill and Martha Ivie Hill.
Born November 6, 1810, in Randolph (now Jasper) County, Georgia.
Ivy grew up in Jasper County, where he fell for Miss Lucy Jones. The feeling was mutual. Legend has it that there was difficulty. The Jones were of Methodist religion, and had large slave holdings. The Hills were of Baptist faith, and did not believe in slavery.
Lucy was the daughter of William Jones and Emelia Hurd (Patterson) Jones She slipped away from her home, joined the Baptist Church so she could marry Ivy. She was almost disinherited for this act against her family. However, a forgiving father and mother accepted it, when Justice of the Peace, Elisha G. Crawford, read the marriage rites for Ivy Hill and Lucy Jones on October 27, 1830.
Lucy's father gave her some slaves as a wedding gift, but her new husband was adamant in his belief , and refused the gift of slaves,
Ivy and Lucy moved from Jasper County, Georgia in January of 1835, going across to Fayette County, Georgia, to a place about 30 miles southeast from Atlanta. They remained in Fayette County until 1848, when they continued the trip westward, moving to Randolph County, Alabama. They lived in the part of Randolph County that later became Cleburne County, Alabama.
In the fall of 1870, a caravan of families, led by an able leader, Ivy Hill, left Cleburne County, Alabama. Among those families were several of Ivy and Lucy's children. The caravan of wagons, drawn by horses and mules, moved westward across Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and into Cass County, Texas arriving December 1, 1870.
They bought land thick with pine trees that had to be cleared before crops could be planted. Several sawmills in the area were beneficial to them during this time.
Lucy Hill was remembered as the community doctor. She always had her little medicine bag, traveled on an old mule to wherever she was needed.
Ivy hill died in Cass County, Texas August 22, 1886,
Lucy did very well without the aid of slaves, and had 18 children.
Lucy was born June 3, 1813, in Jasper County, Georgia , died June 16, 1900, in Cass county, Texas at age 87.
Both Ivy and Lucy are buried in the Watson Cemetery, located near the place where they settled in Cass County Texas, now the Huffines Community.
Inscriptions:
"What to me is life without thee.
Darkness and despair, alone When with sighs we seek to find thee.
This tomb proclaims that thou art gone"
Contributed on 6/9/17 by gr2rumble
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