In a message dated 7/27/02 7:49:12 AM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > The Voyt data has been seriously questioned for years Byron, Thanks again for a well-needed heads up. On a related matter, I'm trying to find any information I can on the time my great-grandfather, Dr. Henry Willlis Hill, spent in Memphis and in Texas after the Civil War. Here are a couple of paragraphs that will set the scene for you: Hill, Henry Willis, MD. Dictionary of Alabama Biography, page 811 “Hill, Henry W., physician, was born January 9, 1827, inWilkes County, Ga., son of Abram and Clarissa (Callaway) Hill, the former anative of North Carolina, the latter of Georgia.; grandson of Henry and Sarah(Cotton) Hill, the former a native of Virginia, of Irish descent and a soldierof the Revolution, the latter a native of North Carolina and of Scotch descent,and of Joseph Callaway and a Miss Reagan, both natives of Georgia;great-grandson of David Reagan of North Carolina, a soldier of the Revolution.Dr. Hill received his education at Brownwood University, LaGrange, Ga., andlater in Mississippi, where his parents had removed. He began the study of medicine [at Newnan, Coweta Co, GA], underDr. A. B. Calhoun; entered the University of South Carolina, at Charleston,1846; and graduated in medicine from the University of New York City, in1848. He located at Blackhawk, Miss.,and practiced at various points in that state until the beginning of the War ofSecession. He enlisted in 1862 withGeneral Chalmers and served on his staff until taken sick about six monthslater. He returned home, remainingthere for eight months, re-enlisted as a surgeon of Colonel Fisher’s regimentin which service he remained until the close of the war. He then opened a drugbusiness in Memphis, remaining there for only one year; spent two years inTexas; returned to Alabama, remaining two years; later resided in Mississippiand Tennessee locating in Mooresville, in 1881, where he has sinceremained. He is a Baptist and aMason. Married: (1) July 12, 1849, to Mary E. daughter of Bakerand Almeda (Callaway) Lipscomb; (2) March 27, 1855, to Ann T., daughter of James and Elizabeth (Wood) Hall;(3) February 25, 1859, to Mrs. Mary E.(Poitevant) Girault. Children by secondwife, 1. James A., physician, m. ElizabethW., daughter of James and Harriet A. (Wright) Woodroof. Last residence:Mooresville. //////////////////////////////// Postedby <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">Al Hill</A><[email protected]> on Mon, 30 Apr 2001,in response to <A HREF="http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/BastropBios/19"> EarlyFamilies</A>, posted by Tammy on Thu, 23 Nov 2000Surname:Hill, Callaway, Hall, Girault, Poitevant, Lipscomb, Wright, Woodroof, Walker,McGeheeHenry Willis Hill, MD (09 Jan-02 Feb 1904) Dr. Henry Willis Hill, born inWilkes County, Georgia, was second cousin to the three Hill brothers who cameto Bastrop, TX, in 1835 and bought half of the old Jenkins League: AbrahamWylie Hill, Middleton Milledge Meade Hill, & Thomas Abraham Wylie Hill. Dr. Hill, his wife, and his onlychild went to Texas from Grenada and Blackhawk, MS, after Dr. Hill had servedas a surgeon in a Mississippi unit until the end of the Civil War and spent oneyear operating a drug store in Memphis, TN. He, his third wife, and his onlysurviving child then spent two years (1869 and 1870?) in Texas before goingback east, eventually settling in Mooresville, Limestone County, AL, in 1881.There he set up in joint medical practice with his son, Dr. James Abram Hill,child of his second wife, Ann Temperence Hall. Dr. James Abram Hill marriedSarah Elizabeth Woodroof, daughter of a local planter in Mooresville, Alabama. It is not certain that Dr. Henry Hill's time spent in Texas was in Bastrop, but it is highly likely. I would be delighted to find any information bearing on my great-grandfather's period in Memphis or in Texas--probably with one of his cousins in Bastrop, but possibly with other relatives, elsewhere in Texas. Thanks, Byron, Any suggestions? Al Hill