My Genealogy Hound

DR. GEORGE R. HILL, physician and surgeon, was born in 1841 in Madison county, Missouri. His father, John, was a native of Cumberland county, England, who came to America in 1829, and settled in Madison county, Missouri. His mother’s maiden name was Jane Robinson, also a native of England. Dr. George R. Hill was reared and educated in Madison county, Missouri, and studied medicine under Dr. J. C. Griffith, of Fredericktown, Missouri. He attended lectures at the St. Louis Medical College. He was in the Confederate army from 1861 until 1864 as a soldier. At the battle of Potosi, Missouri, he was wounded and taken prisoner, and remained on parole until 1864, when he joined the army again as assistant surgeon, and remained until the surrender of Lee. He practiced medicine in Madison county until 1872. In 1873 he came to St. Clair county, Missouri, and in 1875 removed to Carthage, where he has remained in practice. Since coming to Jasper county he has served two years as county physician. He is a member of the medical society and also of the Masonic order. He was married in October, 1871, to Miss Maud Belle Sandidge, of Fredericktown, a native of Mississippi. They have three children living and two deceased. Like most of the Hills whom we have had the pleasure of meeting, the doctor is of English ancestry, and belongs to a sturdy and long-lived race.