When Robert D. Hill was born on 7 November 1836, in Pilot Mountain, Surry, North Carolina, United States, his father, Joel Hill, was 24 and his mother, Emily Davis, was 19. He died on 24 May 1864, in Doswell, Hanover, Virginia, United States, at the age of 27.
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In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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