Hello Jack and Fellow Hill researchers, Jack Foster wrote: <Hi Shelly, my gmother was Julia Francis Hill daughter of Jim Hill & Belle Bledsoe. She married William Wright Hopper ca1888 inDyer Co Tn.> Good news! I was keeping an eye open for your HILL's and HOPPER's while searching for my HILL's on the 1900 Dyer Census, and I found them! They were neighbors! Not only that, but I found my HILL living with a BLEDSOE family. I found a PRUITT/BLEDSOE connection as well. Jack, I'd bet my last dollar that we're kin. I'm just not sure what the connection is exactly. Perhaps others on the list can shed some light on this? Here is what I've found. This portion of the census is very hard to read, so there are a lot of question marks: There are five PRUITT families living adjacent to one another. Mine is one of them: PRUITT, W. W., (William), head, Feb. 1850, 49 TN, TN, ARK Mandy, (Amanda FISHER), wife, Sept. 1856, 44 TN, MS, MS Lou, (Lou Mamie), daughter, June 1884 TN, MS, MS Lillian (Lil), daughter, Jan. 1886 TN, MS, MS Rosy (Rose), daughter, 1887? TN, MS, TN Lular, daughter, 1888? TN, MS, TN Dollie, daughter, 1889? TN, MS, TN (Check out those places of birth. I don't know what to make of that.) Lou Mamie PRUITT will marry John William HILL, b. 1882 in Dyer Co., on July 19, 1900 in Dyer, just a few months after the taking of this census. John William HILL, who was raised by William PRUITT, is found living next door with the BLEDSOE family: (Hard to read) BLEDSOE, A., head, 27? TN, SC?, TN Nola?, wife, 24 TN, KY, KY ?, daughter, 2 BLEDSOE, ?, head, 28 Florence?, wife, 38 ? B., son, 1 Several boarders. BLEDSOE, ?, head, 1841 A,H,?, son, 1878 Linda L.?, daughter, 1884 PASTON?, Fannie?, July 1885 Several "hands" including: Akins? HILL, 1877 BLEDSOE, J., head, Dec. 1863 TN, TN, TN L.E.?, 1871 TN, TN, TN J., son, Jan. 1887 Ethal?, daughter, 1894 S.M.?, daughter, 1896 Walter, son, 1899 HILL, John (My GG Grandfather John William HILL), hand, 1882 TN, Unknown?, Unknown? Jack, I found no HOPPERs in Dyer, but found a family in Gibson Co. on the 1900 Census. There are many HILL and PRUITT families in Gibson as well: HOPPER, William, 41 Mary, 39 William, 15 (Twin) Ella, 15 (Twin) Herbert, 11 Hope to hear from cousins!, Shelley -- Shelley R. Woodson Sgreenle@ttacs.ttu.edu