In
March 2008 I recieved a letter from an ancestor of many of the persons
buried in the Everett Farm Cemetery. In part, the letter(s) read:
Jacob & Catherine (Block) Hill, who died
in 1842 and 1852 respectively, are my fourth (GGGG)
grandparents. They are buried in what
my Hill family and I know to be the HILL FAMILY
CEMETERY. At best, the
name "Everett Farm Cemetery" is a
misnomer.
(Jacob Hill, who died 1842 and
is buried in the HILL FAMILY CEMETERY in Kosciusko County,
Indiana, was named after his great grandfather ... who first
came to America from Germany in the early 1700's.)
I'm sure my Hill family only knew it
as the HILL FAMILY CEMETERY. After all,
they did own the land originally... and
they did create this
cemetery... and at least 28 of my Hill
family are buried there... maybe more.
And, ironically, according to the records, there are
NO Everett's even buried there!
It
is my understanding that this cemetery started out as a HILL FAMILY
CEMETERY when my family originally settled there in the
1830's. They were some of the original early settlers of this
Kosciusko County area. However, many decades later, one
of the HILL girls married an Everett (Ebert?). And,
apparently, this same HILL-Everett girl inherited the land the HILL
FAMILY CEMETERY sits on, as well as a lot of other land around it.
Jacob Hill
came to Kosciusko County in the summer of 1839 with his extended
family His purchase of 80 acres is recorded in the
Kosciusko County School Lands Records. His daughter Elizabeth
married Samuel Daniel, probably in Ohio just prior to the move to
Indiana. Elizabeth died on 22 January 1840 shortly after the
birth of her son, George. Her grave was the first in what was
to become the family cemetery on the northwest corner of Jacob's
farm. Jacob died the next year on 14 September 1842 and his
grave was the second in the family plot.
Jacob's
youngest son, William, inherited the farm and over the next 14
years six more Hills and a granddaughter, Sarah Bradley, were buried in
the Hill family cemetery. Then, in 1856 and 1858, William
allowed two neighbors to be buried in the cemetery, a bit west of the
Hill graves. At least 16 more Hills are known to have been
buried over the next 53 years as well as several neighbors.
William died on 11 August 1909 and is the last Hill known to be buried
there. I find only seven graves of others buried
after William's death
William
lived on the Hill farm at least until his wife's death in
1888. His daughter, Mary D. Hill, married Wilber F.Ebert on
27 November 1890. At some point over the next 10 years, the
Eberts apparently took over the farm. The 1900 Federal Census
shows William as a border in the Ebert family. A 1914 Atlas
shows all of the land formerly owned by William as now called Hillside
Farm, W. F. Ebert.
Historical Hill Family Info Provided by - David Hill & Robert
Weimer,
Hill Family Ancestors.