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 1764 - 1858 (94 years)
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| Name |
Reuben/Reubin Hill |
| Birth |
1764 |
York District, SC  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
25 Jul 1858 |
Dawson Co, GA |
| Person ID |
I317 |
Georgia Revolutionary War Graves |
| Last Modified |
27 Jan 2022 |
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| Notes |
- SAR Patriot P-181545 and DAR Ancestor A055962.
His pension file is # S.31742.
- According to his pension record, Reubin Hill was born in the York District of South Carolina in 1764. When he was quite small his father?s family moved to Tryon County, NC. This area later became Rutherford County, NC.
- While a resident of Rutherford County, in the latter part of 1779, he volunteered to serve with the North Carolina Troops in the Revolutionary War and served on two short tours until the spring of 1782. These two years he held the rank of private and was an Indian spy. In his pension application he states that he was only 16 years old when he joined up. It was their job to guard the mountains from the head of the Catawba to the head of the Saluda, a range of more than one hundred miles in length. They had many conflicts with both Indians and Tories, constantly moving from place to place. The service was described by him as very hard because they had to find all their own food, many times suffering from cold, fatigue and hunger. During this time he served under Captains Butler and Kirkendal and Colonels William Graham and John Earle.
- After the war he returned to Rutherford County.
- He married Margaret Brien on February 9, 1791. Together they had 14 children.
Their children's names were William, Abel, James, Ailsey, David, Belariah, Arabella, Margaret, Asaph, John Reubin Jr., Nathaniel, Lillian, and Martha.
His wife died in Rutherford County, NC in 1839.
- His pension application was approved on October 23, 1832 while he was still a resident of Rutherford County, NC. By 1840 he had moved to Lumpkin County, GA, as did many residents of Rutherford County, and most of his children. He took up farming, and had land and 10 slaves when he was 69 years old.
- He died 25 July 1858 in Dawson County, GA and is buried in the Mt. Vernon Baptist Church Cemetery.
- His cemetery stone is still standing in the Mt. Vernon Baptist Church Cemetery in Dawson County, as well as a Revolutionary War marker.
- Source: Author William Howard Colbert. SAR Patriot Research System, biography #1
- Grave marked 16 Oct 2021 by Little River, Lyman Hall and Robert Forsyth Chapters GA SAR.
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