I am going to Knoxville,Tennessee in November and one of the searches I want to look for is my ggrandfather Reverend Stephen Hill and his connections to where he might have preached in the city and the surrounding area,this is what I know: Stephen Hill was born October 17, 1837 in Tennessee ,exact location unknown but most likely Knox County, he was probably a son of one of the children of Spencer Hill,died 1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend 1812 War and Mary Jones Hill who married second to John Hubbs in Grainger County Tennessee 1819 1850 KNOX COUNTY,TN census Mary HUBBS ,55 born VA Irena 38, born TN Hugh 24 Martin 21 Dorcus PHIPPS 27 John 10 Barbary 8 Stephen HILL 14 1860 KNOX COUNTY, TN census,Postoffice Woodbourne 1315 Hugh HUBBS 36 Mary 25 sarah 9 Nancy ? 5 Amelia 3 Margret 6/12 1316 James HUBBS 40 farmer Elisabeth 40 elisabeth 20 Raichal 13 Fanny 11 Margret 5 Jemes ? 1 (male) 1317 Mary HUBBS 72 farmer John PHIPPS 20 farming Irena HILL 37 Stephen 22 STEPHEN HILL October 17, 1837 Tennessee- May 18, 1897 Tennessee later REVEREND STEPHEN HILL Footprints Union County Tennessee cemeteries page 108 Stephen's parentage is unknown From Hubbs-Frost and Allied families "Rev. Stephen Hill Oct 1837-May 18,1897 (John Hubbs's third wife first married a Hill.Rev Stephen belonged to one of her three daughters)" Stephen is usually listed under Irena and she will be in his household in the 1870 Union county census. I have no proof yet of wether Irena is Stephen's mother,seems likely but who is the father ? This is one of my research high points ,trying to find documents around that time filed at either Union ,Grainger or Knox county that might be a clue. Of interest too is the fact that in 1855 Nancy Hill Smith filed a lawsuit against her half brother Hugh Hubbs for the paternity of her son born 5 march 1855 he was ordered to pay support for three years Monday May 7th 1855 The State vs. Hugh Hubbs Bastardy. Stephen it seems grew up in the household of her grandmother Mary Jones Hill Hubbs Early Knox County TN Marriages Polly A. Shelton to Stephen Hill Nov 30, 1856 I have a Photocopy of the actual marriage paper " Celebrated the rite of matrimony between Stephen Hill and Polly A. Shelton on the 30th of Nov 1856 by joining of them to gether as husband and wife James Zachary Justice of the Peace for Knox County " bondsmen were Stephen Hill and John Fibbs (Phipps) I assume John Phipps son of Dorcus Hubbs Phipps cousin? to Stephen Hill both Stephen and John made a mark X MARY A. "POLLY" SHELTON born abt.1833-? presently researching Shelton Family ,member of Knights5 Union County 1870, Dist 4, Postoffice Maynardville household 31 family 31 Stephen Hill 33, farmer born TN Mary A. 36 William P. 13 Luisey M. 11 Mary M. 7 Laulena P. 5 Milly A. SHELTON,Lucinda 56,TN Franices M. (male) 17, laborer HILL, Irrena household 29 family 29 John HILL 80,TN flaxbraker, blind Roseannah 70 SC I believe there is a connection between the two HILL households but working on research 1880 Grainger County,TN census page 463, 8th District Stephen HILL, 43 farmer born TN ,mother and father born TN (only reference to father ? Hill?) Mary A. 47, born TN,mother and father born TN Miller 19 Paralee 15 Annie 14 Ambrus 8 living next door Pall HILL 22,farmer,born TN, father and mother born TN Marusha 18 Mary J. 2 Knoxville Journal, May 19, 1897 Rev. Stehen Hill dead. Well Known Baptist Minister Passes Away One of Knoxville's most respected citizens, REv. Stephen Hill, died at his home on Norht Central avenue yesterday morning. He is one of the best known Baptist ministers in this section and the news of his death will be quite a shock to his many friends in this city and the surrounding country. He was sick for only a short time with typhoid fever and even his family did not think him dangerously ill until the day before he died. Mr. Hill leaves a wife and five children. The funeral will be conducted from the residence this morning and the remains will be interred in Hubb's burying ground a few miles east of the city. Deceased entered the ministry when he was forty years of age and for the last twenty-five years of his life he has preached at different places around the country. He is well known throughout this city. He spent several years of his life preaching to the poorer classes on the streets and in houses where the poor could hear him. His was a very useful life and he will be remembered by unfortunates of this city. I want to find out what Churches in the area might he have been part of that would have records of him. Thank you Raymond Fred Dennis