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HISTORY OF DALLAS COUNTY.
born to them three children, and after these
little ones were added to the household the
mother. lost her mind, and was pronounced
incurably insane. Dr. Saims was married a
second time, January 23, 1880, to Mrs. Walters,
a daughter of Thomas Howell, a merchant
of Lancaster, Texas, who died in 1879.
Dr. Saims is a member of Olive Lodge,
No. 75, and is Surgeon of George H. Thomas
Post, G. A. R. He affiliates with the Republican
party. He represented Franklin
county, Tennessee, in the Legislature of that
State one term, from 1865. He is one of
the leading members of the medical profession
in Dallas county, and is a liberal supporter
of home industry. His wife belongs
to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
. C. E I L, a rmerand stockM.
C. H[ I L L, a farmer and stockraiser
of Dallas county, was born in
Franklin, Simpson county, Kentucky,
April 5, 1846, the sixth in a family of
ten children born to Isaac and Pauline (Carter)
Hill, natives of Virginia and Tennessee.
The father, a mechanic by trade, was married
in Tennessee, and in an early day located at
Franklin, Kentucky. Iu 1861 he started for
Texas and died en route at Shreveport, Louisana,
in Septeim ber, and the mother and youngest
daughter, Amanda, also died about the
same time, from fever contracted en route.
Our subject and his sister, Mrs. C. G. Gracey,
were then left alone, but were taken care
of by their brother-in-law, J. P. Goodnight.
In 1862, in Dallas county, Mr. Hill enlisted
in Company K, Ninetenth Texas Cavalry,
for three years, or during the war, and was
confined principally in Arkansas and Missouri.
He was also in the Red River campaign
in Louisiana, and at the close of hisservice he returned to Dallas county andfollowed
teaming about four years. In 187-1
he engaged as clerk for Uhlaran of Dallas Chapter,
No. 47, R. A. M.; of Dallas Commandery,
No. 6, and of the K. of P., Cteur de
Lion Lodge, No. 70. Both Mr. and Mrs.
Hill are members of the East Dallas Baptist
Church.
Mr. Hill was married in Ellis county,
Texas, in July, 1875, to Lena Bullard,:a
native of Missouri, and daughter of John
Bullard, a native of Tennessee. Mrs. Hill's
mother, nee Parmelia Hodges, was a native
of Tennessee, and died about 1858, in Missouri.
The father afterward emigrated with
his slaves to Ellis county, settling first near
the Louisana line in Texas, and later near
Waxahachie, where he bought land. He
died at the home of Mr. Hill in Dallas, inr -
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Lewis Publishing Company. Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas., book, 1892; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20932/m1/862/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.