Husband: Robert HILL
Birthdate:
Birthplace: possibly Lanarkshire, Scotland
Death date: Feb-Mar 1849
Place of death: Port Carbon, Schuylkill County, PA
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Marriage date:
Marriage place: Schuylkill County, PA

Wife: Janet May THOMPSON
Birthdate: Oct. 10, 1828
Birthplace: Schuylkill County, PA
Death date: Sept. 10, 1898
Place of death: Raton, Colfax County, NM
Burial: Fairmont Cemetery
Father: George Thompson
Mother: Catherine Penman

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Alexander Hill
Sex: M
Birthdate: abt. 1847
Birthplace: Schuylkill County, PA
Death date: btw: 1850-1860
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Child No. 2: George R. Hill
Sex: M
Birthdate: January, 31 1849
Birthplace: Port Carbon, Schuylkill, PA
Death date: Dec. 12 1918
Place of death:
Burial: Masonic Lawn
Marriage date: 6 July 1873
Marriage place: 1stPresbyterian,Hazeton,Luzerne,PA
Spouses' names: Isabella McLean
 
 
Documentation:
* re: Mining accident on Monday, Feb. 26, 1849:
"Date: Wednesday, March 7, 1849 Paper: Commercial Advertiser (New York, NY) From the Pottsville Miners' Journal, (Saturday) March 3. (1849) ACCIDENTS: -A terrible accident occurred to two men on Monday last, in Geo. Thompson's colliery, by which one man was killed and another seriously injured. They were engaged in repairing the gangway of Mr. Thompson's colliery when a large quantity of slate, 8 or 10 tons in weight, fell, burying them beneath it. The accident occurred about 11 o'clock, A.M., and these unfortunate men, whose names are ___Smith and Robert Hill, were thus buried under this immense quantity of ground, 'til 11 o'clock P.M., making 12 hours; and then perhaps they would not have been discovered had it not been for the wife of one of the men, who went to see what detained her husband from coming in at the usual hour. She arrived at the spot, and calling for her husband, received an answer from one of the men; who strange to say was yet alive, disclosing the melancholy fact of the accident. The men were dug out as soon as possible. Smith was brought out a corpse. Hill was so seriously injured that it is thought he will not survive."
* ___(John) Smith was married to Agnes Hill, probably Robert Hill's sister. Owner of Colliery and site of accident was Robert Hill's father-in-law. Janet Thompson Hill later m. Hugh Lindsay Campbell and named Robert Hill as her first husband on Campbell Civil War widow's pension application.