Charles Alexander Montgomery Hill (38) was born on the Hill Homestead in Fairfield Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania on 18 March 1854, twin brother of Joseph Merriam Hill (271). He is the son of Timothy F. Hill (83) and Sarah Montgomery (84).

Charles married Margaret R. Chappell (39) before 1883. Margaret is a daughter of Jason William Saulis Chappell (207) and Hannah T. Gibson (208). Together they had five daughters: Eva Kay (40), Grace Isobel (41), Margaret (43), Sara Ethel (23) and Helen DeFrance (42).

Charles and Margaret and their family lived in Oil City, Venango County, PA where Charles was an inspector for an oil company. He toured the oil fields on horseback. Charles was also an inventor, inventing things to make life easier around the oil fields as well as around the home, a talent he apparently inherited from his father.

The family later moved to Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA. This move occurred some- time 1885, when Charles and Maggie sold a building lot in Oil City, and 1892, when they sold a second lot in Oil City. Charles built a house at 205 Tullymet Street in Hazelwood. This house still stands as of this writing (1994).

After Margaret died, daughter Eva lived with him. When Eva married Ellis Wilson (167), daughter Sara Hill Jackson (23) and her family moved in to take care of him. Charles died soon thereafter, on 7 November 1930, aged 76 years, 7 months and 20 days.

The funeral service was held at the home of daughter Margaret Hill Flatley (43), 912 Berkshire Avenue in Brookline, Pittsburgh at 2:30 pm on 10 November. The funeral service was performed by the Reverend Arthur W. Davies who took as his text John 14:2 "In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?"

Charles and Magaret are buried in Homewood Cemetery, Section 19, Lot 342, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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