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| Served in the Creek Indian War Greenberry Hill is shown in the Fayette Co., Georgia census of 1850 as being born in Virginia in 1775 as well as his wife Martha Ivey and daughter Mary. In the 1880 census two of Greenberry's sons Ivey and Isariah both show that Greenberry and Martha were born in North Carolina. The first record we have of Greenberry Hill is when he appears as Green Hill in the Pendleton District, South Carolina 1800 census as having one son and two daughters at that time. We believe that Greenberry and Martha were married in Pendleton District in late 1795. Around 1792 Lott Ivey, Martha's father, who had moved from Surrey Co., North Carolina where he had a grant of 250 acres on the Tarrel River in 1784 and was in Pendleton before 1790 where he was granted land on both sides of the Conneross Creek of the Keowee River which he held until January 1796. At that time he sold the land on Conneross Creek to his brother John Anderson Ivey and moved to Franklin Co., Georgia. John Anderson Ivey bought land in Franklin Co., on Freeman's Creek in 1799, and apparently, Lott Ivey left his daughter Elizabeth and her husband Littleton Meeks, as well as Greenberry and Martha living on the land on Conneross Creek. Littleton Meeks and parents moved from Hanover Co., Virginia to Surrey Co., N.C. and then after he married Elizabeth moved to Pendleton when Lott Ivey died. Littleton Meeks was or became a Baptist preacher and at one time after moving to Franklin Co., Georgia was a missionary to the Cherokee Indians. It is possible that because Elizabeth and Martha were very close, Greenberry and his family became very staunch Baptists. There was a Henry H. Hill born in Virginia 1776 who lived in Greenville Co., S.C. for a time, then moved to kentucky and finally settled in Lauderdale Co., Alabama that may have been a brother or cousin to Greenberry. Greenberry served as a drummer in the Company commanded by Captain Worthy in the Regiment of Infantry commanded of William Wooten in the war with the Creek Indians. He was drafted in Jasper Co., Ga., Aug 1, 1814 for the term of 6 months and continued in actual service in said war for the full term and honorably discharged at Fort Hawkins Dec. 20, 1814. It appears that Martha Ivey Hill may be buried at Bethesda Church in what is now Fayette Co., Georgia. Greenberry is buried at the cemetery adjacent to where the Gold Ridge Baptist Church stood in 1860. After the grave site was discovered a bronze plaque was secured from the Defense Department in 1988. There is another family story handed down through the family and related in a letter by Gordon Hill Meador (see Ida "Hill" Meador, Daughter of Joseph Martin Hill, Grand-daughter of Isariah Hill and Great-Granddaughter of Greenberry Hill) that Martha's middle name was Carolina, and that the second child born to Greenberry and Martha was named Martha Carolina, as their first child was named Greenberry Jr. Third child was named after Martha's mother. | ||||||||
| Last Modified 9 Oct 2000 | Created 14 Nov 2011 by Reunion for Macintosh |