Simon Hill and his family arrived in Hopewell Township in 1812, according to a Revolutionary War Pension request of his brother John, and the date of his daughters marriage there in Muskingum Co.. He and his brother George Hill lived along the border of Muskingum Co. and Licking Co.. In 1818 and 1819 he and George applied for a Revolutionary War Pension, in Licking Co and both were granted checks. Simons’ on 9/4/1919 for $63.76. He died in 1820. His son William Hill married Mahala Henslee on 1/29/1818 and on 11/11/1819 at 22 years of age he buys 177 acres on Hopewell Twp Rd 609. One might suspect that he used the money of his father and then kept his widow mother since William was the oldest son and Simon stated that he was sick at the time of the application. Williams' property was located next to William's sister, Dorothy and Jesse Redman. My questions are, where is Simon buried? Is he with his son William and Mahala Hill who were buried in Mount Olive Lutheran Cemetery (now Mt Olive Methodist Church on Mt Olive Church Rd, Hopewell Twp, Muskingum Co. OH)? Or was he buried on Williams' farm? Or maybe on Jesse and Dorothys' farm like they were? (Jesse Redman and wife Dorothy are buried along the back fence row on top of a hill, on Jim Scott’s old farm on Hopewell Twp. Rd 609, Muskingum Co.) Does anyone know of the earliest burials at Mt Olive? Are there any other cemeteries that precede Mt Olive in that area? Simon’s wife is Margaret Hume from the Hume family of Hume VA. She died in 1840 when I believe that Mt Olive was certainly used. Where is she buried as well? The Hill family moved in mass from Fauquier Co. VA. They moved and intermarried with the Henslee, Holmes, Shaw, Redman, Fink and Francis families in VA and Muskingum Co.. Any information that one might have of these families back in VA or Simon’s parents William Hill and Catherine Stacy who married at Overwharton Parish in 1745 of Stafford Co VA., would be welcomed! Bob Hill Granville, OH PS I also have an interesting tidbit. My grandmother always told storied of slave being kept over the rear of her big old Virginia brick house on Poverty Run. We all knew that Ohio was a "Free State". In Samuel Drumm's will of 1855 (have a Copy of it), it showed a lot of good furniture, many pictures, lots of china, 32 Windsor chairs, and all types of farm animals, including bee hives. It also showed that he had ten slaves with the Privilege of All, who were sold to William H. Kelly after Samuel's death. Oral history wins again! So much for free states before the Civil War. Our educated minds would not accept what Gramma knew to be a truth. Mr. Drumm still used the Blacks that he owed in Virginia as labor in Ohio. We don't teach this as a sad part of our northern history! That beautiful home and 640 acres, bought by the Hill's, was destoyed for Dillion Dam in 1956.