While searching for somebody else in Shelby Co., TN I found this Goodspeed Biography, 1887, History of Shelby Co., TN. Perhaps somebody out there can claim him. "A. Bruce Hill, secretary of the board of education of Memphis, is a son of John S. Rod Henrietta (Dewese) Hill, natives of North Carolina, born in 1808 and 1813 respectively. They were married in 1835, and the same year came to Tipton County, where they engaged in agricultural pursuits. For about eighteen years he was a magistrate, and in politics a Whig till 1836, being from that time up to the time of his death a Democrat. Their family consisted of nine children--seven sons and two daughters. Four of the boys, A. Bruce, James M., J. Sloan, and E, W. Thomas fought nobly for the Southern cause during the late war. The last named died in service. In 1863 while waiting on the sick and the wounded of the battle of Chickamauga the father contracted a fever of which he died ere reaching home. The mother still lives. Our subject was born December 12, 1837, in Tipton County, was reared on a farm and received a thorough academic education. At the age of eighteen he began teaching but soon after engaged in the mercantile business. In 1861 he volunteered in Company G, of the Fifty-first Tennessee Infantry, Confederate Army. He was successively promoted to first lieutenant and captain of his company, holding the latter till the close of the war. During nearly four years of service he was neither wounded nor captured, and at the close of the war returned to Tipton County, where he engaged in merchandising. In 1865 he married Hattie E. Thompson who was born in 1843. The fruits of this union are three children, two sons and one daughter, the eldest son being dead. In 1868 Mr. Hill moved to Memphis and the following year his wife died. In 1872 he married Isabelle R. Vanse, born in 1848, and to this union were born seven chidren--three sons and four daughters. He and both wives are Presbyterians. Having been engaged in the mercantile business till 1881, he was elected secretary of the board of education. He is a Mason, an Odd Fellow; a member of the A. O. U. W., being recorder; a member of the Order of K. of H., being financial reporter, and a member of the K. & L. of H., being treasurer. He is a Democrat in politics." ________________________________________________________________ Get FREE voicemail, fax and email at http://voicemail.excite.com Talk online at http://voicechat.excite.com