My Genealogy Hound

THEODORE MACDONALD HILL, of Campbell County, Ky., is of Scotch-Irish ancestry on the paternal side, and of English-German on the maternal. His grandfather, William Hill, was a native of County Antrim, Ireland, and his grandmother, Jane Macdonald, of the Isle of Skye, off the west coast of Scotland. Both were own cousins to the celebrated Scotch beauty, Flora Macdonald, the plain narrative of whose life touches all hearts. This grandfather and this grandmother came to America in colonial days, and the former was a soldier in the war for independence. They came down the Ohio River to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1794, at which place William Hill, the father of our subject, was born May 25, of that year. William Hill, Jr., was a soldier in the war of 1812, at the historic battles of River Raisin, the Thames, Lundy’s Lane and others. The mother of our subject was Elizabeth Nation, daughter of Joel Nation, and his wife, Mary Albright, Ohio people, previously from East Tennessee and North Carolina; the former of English ancestry, the latter of German extraction. The subject of our sketch served in the Confederate Army during the entire war, was admitted to the practice of law in 1871, married at twenty-five years of age, elected police judge of Alexandria in 1872, to the Legislature in 1877, and again in 1879. His wife was Miss M. Isaphine White; five children have been born to this union, only one of whom is living, Miss Fay Fern, a bright little school girl of thirteen years.