When John Friel Hill was born on 5 April 1858, in Carroll, Virginia, United States, his father, William Hill, was 41 and his mother, Zilphia Beamer, was 26. He married Ona Almeda Gardner on 31 December 1885, in Carroll, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Pipers Gap, Carroll, Virginia, United States in 1910. He died on 17 December 1942, in Fancy Gap, Carroll, Virginia, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Independence Cemetery, Carroll, Virginia, United States.
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The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
English: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a hill, from Middle English hill, hell, hull ‘hill’ (Old English hyll). Compare Hiller . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
English: possibly in some cases from the personal name Hille, a pet form of some name such as Hilger or Hillary .
German: from a short form of Hildebrand or any of a variety of other names, male and female, containing ancient Germanic hild ‘battle’ as the first element.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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