Hill Family,

The Hill family were early settlers of Texas and includes Asa Hill and James Monroe Hill fought in the Texas Revolution. Descendant George Alfred Hill greatly researched his family history and was president of Houston Oil Company. He was also as a founder of the San Jacinto Museum of History and served as president of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Another descendent represented in the papers, Robert T. Hill was an esteemed geologist in the University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology.

Sources: “George A. Hill,” Briscoe Center for American History Vertical File; Hill, George Alfred. The Hill Family of Fayetteville, Typical Texians. An Address Delivered at Fayetteville, Texas, December 9, 1936, Upon the Occasion of the Dedication of a Monument Erected by the State of Texas. 1936.

From the guide to the Hill-Milam Family Papers 65-142., 1838-1931, 1955-1957, 1961, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)