Jackie, Regarding your question repeated below, I cannot estimate ages other than to say that V. Royt Hill is probably in his 50s in 1941 because he sounds sort of avuncular and mentions unnamed adult children. There are only four letters from him and they are mostly chatty. They are from V. Royt Hill to what sounds like HIS Hill cousin, who met int he course of the day my Aunt Wilma in Louisiana and they started talking about Hill family genealogy generally. It doesn't sound like any cousinhood had been established. He is writing to "Charles and Elizabeth" because they wrote to him on behalf of my Aunt Wilma and Aunt Katheryne (who summered in Louisiana, while teaching in Virginia) MOST IMPORTANT, is that V. Royt Hill is NOT a descendant of Isaac Hill and Lucinda Wallace, but he mentions HIS earlier relatives as saying they have a relationship with Sen. Ben Harvey Hill's ancestors. That is why if anyone can recognize the Joab, Thomas, Henry Taylor Hill, Mary Hill Box I thought it might help us get a grip on Isaac Hill's ancestry. Janet Jackie asked: "In a message dated 7/26/2002 4:49:17 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > Based on what you know (if anything)of the letter writers' ages, > can you give us a rough estimate of the dates of birth for Joab Hill, > his brother Thomas, the son Henry Taylor Hill and his daughter Mary > Hill Box, as well as this V. Royt Hill? Henry Taylor Hill, if he > stayed with Sen. B. H. Hill's family in GA must have lived aprox. > during 1845-1882, since Sen. Hill was b. 1823, married in 1845 and > died in 1882. If he stayed with Sen. Hill's father, John J. Hill, > the latter lived 1745 to 1848 and married in 1806. This would make > Henry Taylor Hill necessarily older if he stayed with the Senator's > father. It isn't likely he stayed with Isaac Hill, Sr., the > grandfather of Sen. B. H. Hill, because Isaac, after moving to TN in > 1816, lived out the rest of his life in TN and died there in 1825. >