Posted on: Alamance Co. NC Biographies Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/NC/AlamanceBios/2 Surname: Branson, Newlin, Long ------------------------- History of Rush County Indiana 188 Brant & Fuller Chicago Samuel B. Hill, a prominent citizen of Carthage, and the Cashier of the Bank of Carthage, is a native of Randolph County, North Carolina, born February 2, 1829, he is the son of Samuel and Mary (Branson) Hill, who were also natives of Randolph County, North Carolina, both of English descent. He was reared to manhood upon a farm in his native county, and at twenty-three years of age, or December 31, 1851, he was united in marriage to Miss Nancy H. Newlin, who is a native of Alamance County, North Carolina, born February 18, 1831, being the daughter of John and Rebecca (LONG) Newlin, both of whom were natives of Alamance County, North Carolina, of English descent. Her parents both spent their entire lives in their native county. The father died in June 1867, at the advanced age of ninety-two, and his wife survived him about two years. At twenty-one years of age, our subject became employed in a cotton mill, and two years later he turned his attention to merchandising and farming, and from 1851 to 1860 he conducted a general store and superintended a farm in Randolph County. In October 1860, he moved his family to Rush County, and he has ever since been a resident of Carthage. During the first eighteen years of his residence there he was engaged in mercantile pursuits. On the 10th day of April 1875, he organized the Bank of Carthage, of which he has been Cashier, and a leading stockholder ever since. In connection with the above, he has during the all this time controlled extensive farming interests in the vicinity of Carthage. He is the owner of 575 acres of first class land lying in Rush and Shelby counties, all of which is under fence and a good part of which is in an excellent state of cultivation. This gives him a rank not only as one of its most extensive freeholders and farmers. In consequence of his diversified business interests and his close attention to them, he is now the victim of an impaired health but a period of recent recreation and travel bids fair to cause its restoration. He and wife have had seven children as follows: Eunice A., Emily R., Edgar N., Walter B., and Bertha L., who are living, and two sons that died in infancy, unnamed. Mr. Hill and family are members of the Friends’ Church. In politics, our subject is a Republican. His portrait is presented with this volume.