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Rachael HILL SARTAIN BIOGRAPHY

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by:H E Woolford, 2000

Rachel F Hill, was born in Indiana, June 1844. She was the daughter of Andrew Hill born about 1810-12 in Virginia, and Hannah McNeely born about 1816, also of Virginia. Andrew and Hanna were married in Shelby County Indiana on 30 May 1836. Several other McNeelys and Hills are in this county at this time, relationship currently unknown.

In 1838 Andrew and Hannah had a son, John H Hill in Illinois. Another son, William B was born about 1840 also in Illinois. About 1843 in Indiana, Mark D Hill was born to them. Also in Indiana were born Rachel F Hill in June of 1844 and Mary Ann Hill about 1849.

Sometime after that the family moved back to Illinois. The 1860 census finds the family, less John H Hill, in Menard County, Illinois.

Rachel F Hill married Thomas J Sartain a carpenter (b.1835, KY) in Mason County, IL, 19 May 1861. A letter of consent from Andrew and Hannah is dated 18 May 1861 from Bath, Mason County, Illinois, and reads as follows:

Bath May 18th ’61

Sir,

The bearer of this

Mr. T. J. Sartain desirous of

forming in the holy bands of

wedlock with My daughter

Rachel F Hill and we as

her parents do willingly accord

and give our parental Consent

To the same

Andrew Hill

Hannah Hill

Rachel F Hill and Thomas J Sartain had the

following children:

William Sartain, born March 1862 IL

Belle Sartain, born 1863 IL

John Sartain, born February 1865 IL

Minnie Sartain, born 1869, Poweshiek Co., IA

Thomas Franklin Sartain born 27 April 1872,

Poweshiek Co., IA

Mollie Sartain born January 1882, Poweshiek Co., IA

Clifford Sartain, born August 1885, MO

The 1900 Census finds Rachel as head of household in Milk Grove Township, Iroquois County, IL with children William, John, Molly and Clifford. Thomas Franklin Sartain was married and living in Princeton, Bureau County, Ilinois at this time.

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