David, I don't know how to get this message to Martha Power Little, but some of her information is DEFINITELY incorrect. The Allen Hill family (his wife and his son Jacob and his wife) settled in the community of MADISON HALL, not MEDON. Check the history article written by Mrs. O.J. Tate in the 1940s about Madison Hall. (vertical files of Tennessee Room) Allen Hill's tombstone, which was constructed new in about the mid 1900s, and has his history literally carved in stone on it. However, his descendents didn't have the facts all straight either, but it is closer to the facts than Ms. Little's explanation at the bottom of her Bible extractions (the Bible extractions which I am not disputing). Allen Hill and his family settled just off the stream of Cane Creek which wound around the southwest side of the South Fork of the Forked Deer. Today, Cane Creek goes through Bemis, and then to the top of the big hill on the Caldwell Rd then across Riverside Drive to the hill and valley countryside where Hill settled behind the current location of Madison Baptist Church (on the Steam Mill Ferry Road) and Hall & King Cemetery. I interviewed a woman of my mother's age before she died who lived in the old log, clap-broad covered house that was the Allen Hill's homestead. It burned while she was living there with her father, a Andy Harris. She said it went up like a tender box because it was so old. It would have been about 100 or 110 years old in the 1930s when she lived there. Mrs. Tate writes about the house in her article. Now Byrd Hill, a son of Jacob Hill, lived in a house (that I remember--I am 62 years old) on the corner of Riverside Dr. (then the Old Bolivar Rd) and what is now called Britton Lane. This location was close to Medon. The Hill cemetery is located off Campbell Lane, which is considered to be in the Madison Hall Community. Cane Creek, literally now a stream, parallels the bottom of the hill where the Hill Cemetery is located today. I have hypothesized that Allen Hill and his family were the first settlers in the southwest part of Madison Co. locating there because he was a fellow warrior with Andy Jackson in the War of 1812 and knew of the pending accord to purchase the whole of W.T. from the Chickasaw Indians, which did happen in 1818, but settlement, according to the treaty, was not supposed to take place until 1819. According to the words on his tombstone, he started the Cane Creek Church in 1815 meeting in his home, and supposedly he obtained his land in this area as a land grant from fighting in the War of 1812. (We know there were no land grants given for service in the war of 1812, but there were land grants given in this area in order to populate it. He could have gotten a land grant, but it wouldn't have been for military service.) Now, if he started it in 1815, he either started it in the home where he lived in Williamson Co., Tenn (he and his son Jacob are listed in Williamson Co. in the 1820 U.S. Census) and brought the organized Baptist church already named to Madison Co. when he settled here about 1821. The building for Cane Creek Baptist Church was not built until 1822. Or, he indeed was a land squatter in Madison Co. in 1815, along with his son and family, and met in homes for church and called it Cane Creek after the small stream that he floated off the Forked Deer to the hill area where he settled. (Some individuals living in the Western Territory were counted in the U.S. Census, but were counted in existing counties' population. I don't know if this was true of Williamson County's Census or not. The original Cane Creek Church building was constructed (supposedly out of logs and built by slave labor) on the big hill or ridge that we now call the big hill on Caldwell Road. Further over the ridge and back in the woods, the black slaves were allowed to build their church, which still exists (not the original building, however) on Cane Creek Road off Riverside Dr. and off Bemis Cemetery Road. Allen Hills' family populated the southwest portion of the County. The Hudsons, the Givens, the Campbells, Harrises, and other well-known family names exist there because of Allen Hill. I have read a version of the history of Cane Creek Baptist Church which was written by a former pastor of Madison Baptist Church who had access to old records of the church from Mr. Jim Raines. Supposedly those records burned with Mr. Jim's old Victorian house in Malesus in about the late1950s or early 1960s. That history said that the church was established in 1815 when the "Red man still roamed the land." A few years ago, I called that pastor (he was living in Kentucky) and interviewed him about that statement and if he thought it was true. He said he thought it was. He was a student of history and knew of the squatters who were here before the Western Territory was opened for settlement in 1819. So that's what I know about Allen Hill. I have been in contact with some of his descendents, but not this Martha Power Little. Please send my message on to her. I feel strongly about the fact that she should NOT STATE THAT HE LIVED NEAR MEDON. Oh, yes, and what about the discrepancy, that she has in her text -- in the Bible records she shows Allen Hill died in 1830 and in her text explanation she says he died in 1857? Linda J. Higgins ljhiggins@charter.net 731-427-6681 ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Donahue" <ddonahue@netease.net> To: <TNMADISO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 5:25 PM Subject: [TNMADISO] Hill Family Bible returns after three-year absence > www.tngenweb.org/records/madison/records/madibibl.htm > > Back online after a three-year absence is the is Hill Family Bible > records (Power, Moore families included), transcribed by Martha Power > Little. The Hill family lived near Medon. Preceding the Hill bible in > the same file is Bible Records of the Mason-Bell Family, submitted by > Tami Ramsey. This family lived in the Mason Grove area (this bible was > available online elsewhere). > > The restored file was created and copyrighted in 1998 by first Madison > County TNGenWeb CC Laura W. Griffith. The entire time I had Madison > County I actually kept the files from earlier genweb pages. I was > looking at them one last time before erasing the copies from my hard > drive. The madibibl.htm file is mostly as Laura Griffith created it. I > changed the host logo (in 1998 the TNGenWeb host was usit.net), deleted > two 6-year-old email addresses, and deleted an external link to a third > bible to make madibibl.htm self-contained. I think back in 2001 I skiped > this file because of the external link and never got back to it. > > Let me mention the deleted external link -- > http://members.tripod.com/~pegasus_2/thomas.htm > This links to a web page for the Thomas Rice Warren Family Bible created > by Steven L. Rich. The link still works after six years. Exploring his > pages I found > > http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/r/i/c/Darlene-P-Rich-MO/PHOTO/0002photo.html > This is a May 1963 photograph of Charityann Magdalene (Naylor) Ada, > February 18, 1889 (McNairy County, Tennessee) - December 18, 1966 > (Jackson, Madison County, Tennessee) > > David > > > > ==== TNMADISO Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political > announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, > etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. > Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett kathleenburnett@earthlink.net > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >