See also
| Husband: | Ivy HILL (1810-1886) | |
| Wife: | Lucy JONES (c. 1815- ) | |
| Children: | William HILL Green Berry (1835-1917) | |
| Marriage | 27 Oct 1830 | Jasper County, GA, US |
| Name: | Ivy HILL | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | Green HILL B (1775- ) | |
| Mother: | Martha IVEY (c. 1780- ) | |
| Birth | 6 Nov 1810 | Randolph County, AL (now Jasper County, GA) |
| Religion | Primitive Baptist | |
| Death | 22 Aug 1886 (age 75) | Huffines, Cass County, TX, US |
| Burial | Watson Cemetary | |
| Huffines, Cass County, TX Gravetone includes the Mason insignia, and the following inscription: What to me is life without thee - darkness and despair - alone - when with signs we seek to find thee, this tomb proclaims that thou are gone. |
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| Name: | Lucy JONES | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | William JONES (c. 1790- ) | |
| Mother: | Amelia HEARD (c. 1795- ) | |
| Birth | 1815 (est) | |
| Religion | Methodist | |
| Name: | William HILL Green Berry | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Nickname: | G.B. or Green Hill | |
| Spouse: | Sovelia BALE (c. 1840- ) | |
| Birth | 9 Oct 1835 | Jasper County, GA, US |
| Religion | Primitive Baptist | |
| Occupation | farmer | |
| Death | 21 Aug 1917 (age 81) | Bivins, Cass, TX, US |
| Burial | Watson Cemetary | |
| Bivins, Cass County, TX, US | ||
Researcher Harold Rayburn Hill states:
The Hills and allied families were among those who settled the West. They were pioneers. They and their forebears migrated from the Eastern part of the United States to Alabama, Texas and beyond.
Green Berry Hill and the Iveys are know to have migrated from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama.
in 1871, Ivy Hill led a group of family members from Eastern Alabama to Cass County, TX. The trip to Texas was about 600 miles. Two of his sons, Seaborn and Willam Green Berry, had migrated to Texas in the 1860's. Seaborn was in Cass County and William Green Berry was in Lamar County.
They traveled by wagon, horses and mules. They were hardy and self-sufficient.
One can only speculate about the reasons to migrate. It is likely they thought to escape the aftermath of the Civil War. They likely sought cheap, fertile land. A sense of adventure may have motivated them.
On arrival in Texas, they had to build homes, craft furniture and clear and prepare land for farming.
Ivy Hill purchased five square miles (1/2 league or 2214 acres) of land from L.E. Watson, according to a deed dated December 21, 1874 for "ten hundred dollars". Having grown up farming (with mules) a part of the tract of land, and haveing travled of Cleburne and Randolph Counties in Alabama, Ivy must have been thrilled to view the low rollings hills of Cass County, TX. That tract of land in TX also included large amount of "bottom land" that could produce in excess of a bale of cotton per acre. There was also an abundance of virgin pine and hardwood timber that could be milled for building purposes.
She and Ivy apparently had a difficult romance because the Jones family were Methodists and had large slave holdings and the Hills were Baptist and did not believe in slavery.
The story goes, Lucy slipped away from home to marry Ivy and she joined the Baptist Church.
Her parents threatened to disinherit her, but eventually accepted the marriage.