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William Wallace HILL 5139, Bath Co.

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William Wallace HILL 5139, Bath Co.

Sandi Gorin  (View posts) Posted: 8 Dec 2000 12:00PM GMT
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Surnames: Hill, Downing, Smith, Grimes
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Centre College Alumni, published 1890. Bath Co, 1835 graduate.

William Wallace Hill Son of Thomas and Jane (Martin) Hill, natives of Virginia, who settled near Sharpsburg, KY. Born January 26, 1815, near Sharpsburg. Prepared for college at Paris and Preparatory Department of Centre College. Entered college in seventeenth year. In 1835 he entered Princeton Theological Seminary, remaining two years. Commenced preaching at Shelbyville, KY, March, 1838. Married Miss Mary B. Downing, 1842, who was a native of Cynthiana, and who died in Louisville in 1856. Became editor of Presbyterian Herald in 1846, and continued so for twenty years, supplying during the time various churches near Louisville--one, the Middletown, seventeen years. Founded, while living at Louisville, the churches at Jeffersonville, IN, and Hancock street, Louisville. In 1858 was married to Martha Jane Smith, a native of Somerset, KY, daughter of Rev. James T. Smith, and adopted daughter of Willis Grimes of Danville, KY. In 1861 he founded Bellewood Seminary and conduct

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