Family Histories of Coleman
County, Texas
THE WILLIAM H. HILL FAMILY
by Letha M. Saunders
From
A History of Coleman County and Its People, 1985
edited
by Judia and Ralph Terry, and Vena Bob Gates - used by permission
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William H. (Harvey or Henry) Hill seems to have come to Texas from
Missouri and Mary Melissa Crockett, daughter of James and Zilphia (Clark)
Crockett, from Tennessee. Mary said that her father always said they
grew up in the same community with David Crockett and were cousins.
Will and Mary moved to Baby Head, a small community near Llano and to White
Chapel in the early 1900’s. Most of their seven children were born
in Baby Head. Their children:
(1) Jasper Muller married Evie Hamilton (see John
Thomas Hamilton) and had five children: (1a) Decima, married ? Draper
and had two daughters: (a) Julia Eva, married J. B. Smith, Jr. (see Joe
B. Smith), two daughters: Brenda, married Mike Lagow (see Rae), and Malinda
married Charlie ?, has one daughter; (b) Barbara married a Gorman and,
soon after her marriage, was killed in a car-train wreck; (1b) Arvis died
in 1950 in Louisiana in an accident; (1c) Zenobia and (1d) Bailey, both
died in their teens; (1e) Cherry June married and has a son and daughter.
(2) Frederick Keifer (Fred) married Octavia Miller. Their children:
Hazel, married a Maloney, two sons; Verba married a Culpepper; Mary Faye;
Maurine and twin girls, Marjorie, (her sister died in infancy). Octavia
died and Fred married Letha ? and had two children: F. W. (Bill), lives
in California, and Frances, lives in Missouri.
(3) Zilphia Rebecah Myrtle married Robert Baird Saunders (see Robert
Baird Saunders).
(4) William Sandy married Ruth Miller (sister to Octavia). Their
children: Louis, deceased; Vera, married Robert Forman (two sons and a
daughter) lived in Bronte; Gwendolyn, had two sons and a daughter, deceased
in 1978; Ralph and Billie Ruth.
(5) John Lee married Bertha Clark, had two daughters, Evelyn Grace and
Eleanor Gene (married a Berge). John L. joined the army before World
War I and rose to Captain, later was military instructor in San Antonio
schools.
(6) Stella Johanna married Raymond Cox (see R. A. Cox).
(7) Bernice Adolph married an English girl in San Antonio and they had
two daughters. (Update
about the family of Bernice Adolph Hill, from Katy Meador, Junction, Texas,
May 2006: Bernice Adolph "Jack" Hill, born
about 1899, did marry an English girl. Her name was Barbara Alice
Bradshaw Swanwick, she was born on the Isle of Man, England. They
had two daughters, Mary Elizabeth Hill, born December 27, 1923 (my mother),
married Walter Richard Hegwer of Grand Junction, Colorado, and Geraldine
Hill, date of birth unknown, married Robert Walstrom. Mary Elizabeth
had five children: daughter (oldest child) Barbara Elizabeth Hegwer, (youngest
child) Kathryn Belva Hegwer Meador; three sons: Raymond Dudley Hegwer,
Donald Gerald Hegwer and Jack Richard Hegwer. All five are residents
of Texas and have families of their own scattered throughout Texas.)
(Images to be added)
Fred and Octavia Hill, Rock Crusher, Texas, 1912, with Hazel and
Verba.
William H. and Mary Zilphia (Crockett) Hill and Family, standing:
Frederick, Muller, Zilphia Rebecca Myrtle, William Sandy; front: William
H., holding Stella Johanna, Mary Z. Hill, holding Bernice Adolph, and John
Lee
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