When Joel Winston Hill was born on 29 October 1869, in Pilot Mountain, Surry, North Carolina, United States, his father, John Wesley Hill, was 26 and his mother, Emma Jane Stone, was 21. He married Sarah Elizabeth McDaniel on 19 January 1890, in Surry, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 6 May 1898, in his hometown, at the age of 28, and was buried in Pilot Mountain, Surry, North Carolina, United States.
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Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
In 1877, the last of the troops that were occupying North Carolina left.
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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