Died in the Nashville Hospital for the insane due to a nervous breakdown after being taken there Nov. 12, 1863 by the military patrol. Her husband died shortly after the breakdown. The Hill children were sent to reside in various familes. The sisters, Katie and Maggie ( born ca. 1861) were first sent to Wilson County in the fall of 1865 to their aunt and uncle's, Dr. Dan B. Hill, in Palo Alto, MS. Robert, Jr. went to his grandmother's and then as a teen took a train in 1874 to TX (where his brother Joe was an editor of The Comanche Chief they later owned) and R.T. later became a geologist. He had been called the "Father of Texas Geology".
Later, their sister Sallie was sent to be with her sisters in MS.
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Later, their sister Sallie was sent to be with her sisters in MS.
Additional data provded by Jack D. Elliott, Jr.
Died in the Nashville Hospital for the insane due to a nervous breakdown after being taken there Nov. 12, 1863 by the military patrol. Her husband died shortly after the breakdown. The Hill children were sent to reside in various familes. The sisters, Katie and Maggie ( born ca. 1861) were first sent to Wilson County in the fall of 1865 to their aunt and uncle's, Dr. Dan B. Hill, in Palo Alto, MS. Robert, Jr. went to his grandmother's and then as a teen took a train in 1874 to TX (where his brother Joe was an editor of The Comanche Chief they later owned) and R.T. later became a geologist. He had been called the "Father of Texas Geology".
Later, their sister Sallie was sent to be with her sisters in MS.
Additional data provded by Jack D. Elliott, Jr.
Later, their sister Sallie was sent to be with her sisters in MS.
Additional data provded by Jack D. Elliott, Jr.
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