Mother of 16 children.

We find Mollie, age 49 on the 1920 Houston County Census, living with her husband Maxie Guy and their children:

Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head M G Hill M 60 Texas
Wife Mollie Hill F 49 Alabama
Son Fred Hill M 20 Texas
Daughter Mary Hill F 18 Texas
Daughter Tiny Hill F 16 Texas
Son Joe Hill M 14 Texas
Daughter Grace Hill F 12 Texas
Daughter Dixie Hill F 10 Texas
Son Jim Hill M 29 Texas
Daughter Carnie Hill F 26 Texas
Son Jam Hill M 24 Texas
Daughter Effie Hill F 22 Texas
Boarder J A Mccarthy F 58 Texas
Boarder John Childree M 26 Texas

* Story about Maxie Gregg and Mollie Dominy Hill
PREFACE

Among he whispers of the cedar trees, there lies the silence of another generation, another time, and another place. How did they come to rest upon this hill? What story do they have to tell?

If one listens carefully to the sounds, on can hear the voices of the past as they tell the story that intertwines the past to the present. That story is the story of the Hill family.

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A tragic era that no one wished to remember, but yet they must recognize that the years between 1860 -1865 changed the face of the nation. The war, the Civil War--the War between the States--whatever one calls it, broke the country into the grey and the blue. What caused this war? Was it slavery, states' rights, or economical differences? The destruction of the South would be complete.

A strong, tall, handsome man, William H. Hill, a graduate of West Point Military Academy in New York, made the choice to fight for the South. He believed in states' rights but not in the idea that the South had the right to secede from the Union. Refusing an officer's commission, he fought as a private with the Confederate States of America.

The end of this was brought freedom for the slaves and the final economical destruction of the South. In 1864, when William returned to his home in Soda, Texas in Polk County, the fires of the war were not over. The scars would burn deeply into the minds of the returning men. William, with the lost sense of self worth became dependent upon the almighty bottle filled with alcohol. His children suffered from the lack of an education, which William could have given them.

But the strong hand rocks the cradle, and the Hill children would learn from their mother, Mary Jane Gregg Hill, who had attended a small Presbyterian College in South Carolina. She taught her seven childern the basic elements of writing, reading, and arithmetic. From her love of learning, her fourth son Maxie Gregg, born on October 8, 1859, would continue his studies and succeed as a self-educated man.

See Full Story about Mollie Dominy at: http://www.hillcemetery.us/history.htm#uponthishill