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BURCH, FRANCIS & ELIZABETH HILL (son of Walter "Waddy" Burch & Theresa Hagan)(daughter of Charles Hill & Margaret "Peggy" Nichols)(married 6-28-1812 Nelson Co., Ky)
Baptized Helen Burch, 4-16-1837, by Rev. Athanasius A. Aud at St. Thomas Catholic Church. Birth date, 4-09-1837. Sponsor, Margaret Burch. Parents: Francis Burch and Elizabeth Hill.

He may have had a first unknown wife.

The young couple (he and Elizabeth Hill) settled on the Rolling Fork in what was Hardin County and is today Larue County. FRANCIS BURCH ran a distillery next to his ranch style home.
ELIZABETH died 10/3/1848 at the age of 52 and was buried at St. Catherine's in New Haven, Kentucky,
In Nelson County on 1/11/1849 FRANCIS BURCH married secondly Ellen Buckman, the daughter of Joseph Buckman and Elizabeth Abell, no children. FRANCIS BURCH wrote his will on 6/18 /1856. He desired his land and slaves to be sold and his estate to be divided among his wife and children, and the children of his son CHARLES to have his part. The amount that his children had already received which he mentioned in his will, was to be deducted from their share. He appointed SYLVESTER JOHNSON as his executor.
FRANCIS BURCH died 8/9/1856 and was buried next to his first wife in St. Catherine's Cemetery. In Nelson County on 7/28/1857 Mrs. Ellen Burch, the widow of FRANCIS BURCH, married secondly Ignatius Bryan, who died shortly after their marriage. At St. Catherine's on 11/19/1863 Ellen Buckman Burch Bryan married thirdly John A. Simms, no children. They moved to Stithton, Kentucky where they ran a hotel.

Francis married Margaret Elizabeth "Peggy" Hill on 28 Jan 1812 in Nelson County, Kentucky. Margaret (daughter of Charles Hill, I and Margaret "Peggy" Nichols) was born on 19 Jan 1796 in Charles County, MD.; died on 3 Oct 1848; was buried in St. Catherine's Church, New Haven, KY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Nena Smothers wrote:

> I am trying to find James Bell's parents, likely were Beall's. I have a bit of info provided by a DNA desc of this family.
> I am wondering if James' family could be related to the Bell family of Daviess co KY, namely Mordecai Beall and his sons who migrated fr Maryland to KY about 1790.
> If any thing sounds familiar or anyone has add'l info please let me know, thank you, Nena
> =========================
> JAMES AND CORDELIA (BURCH)/SUSAN (ROGERS) BELL OF NELSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY
>
> JAMES BELL
> James Bell [1] was born in 1816 in Marion County, KY. d 1892 Nelson Co, KY
> Both of his parents were born in Washington County, KY. Family history tells the name was changed from Beall to Bell. fr James Beall [DNA]
>
> CORDELIA BURCH
> Cordelia Burch [2] was born in 1831 in Kentucky to Francis "Frank" and Elizabeth (Hill) Burch. Frank was born on 1 February 1791 in Charles County, MD, and migrated to Nelson County, KY, with his family while still a boy. Frank married Elizabeth, a daughter of Charles Hill, on 28 June 1812 in Nelson County; Elizabeth was born about 1796. Frank's profession was whiskey making. He and Elizabeth settled on Rolling Fork of the Salt River, not far from Frank's father, Walter, but across the Hardin (now Larue) County line. Frank and Elizabeth had about twelve children. Elizabeth died on 3 October 1848 and was buried at St. Catherine's Church, New Haven, KY. Frank remarried on 11 Januray 1849 in Nelson County to Ellen Buckman. Frank died on 9 August 1856 in Larue, KY, and was also buried at St. Catherine's Church. Ellen died after 1880.

Mark Paden wrote:

> Mike:
> Surprise, surprise. This makes me related to both you and your wife. I should have looked at my ancestry chart before sending the email. I did have the information that I descend from Stephen Gough via his daughter Mary Gough that married John Miles II (although I did not have Mary Tattershall as the wife of Stephen Gough). I would be glad to exchange any information but I have not computerized all of mine yet. I have been working on a book project for my Paden line and that is all I have on the computer.
>
> My Thomas Hill came from Wiltshire to Maryland as did many of the Catholic settlers there. There must have been numerous Catholics in Wiltshire but I know very little of that aspect of English history.
>
> My relationship to both you and your wife would come together with the marriage of my gr. grandparents, Thomas Murtey and Nancy Olive Hill on 5 Oct 1892 in Stockton, KS.
>
> * Thomas Murtey b. 11 March 1864 in Lincoln, IL; d. 6 June 1926 in Weeping Water, NE. Son of James Murtey (Sr.) b. 18 May 1825 County Sligo, Ireland; d. 1905 Rooks Co., KS and Elizabeth Slattery b. County Sligo, Ireland 1831; d. 29 Mar 1894 Rooks Co., KS. Thomas Murtey was the brother of James Murtey, Jr., the gr. grandfather of your wife. That would make your wife and I third cousins.
> * Nancy Olive Hill b. 12 Jan 1871 in Marysville, IA; d. 22 Aug 1949 Council Bluffs, IA. Her descent from the Goughs of MD would be as follows (beginning with her father):
>
> 1. Benjamin Hill b. 31 March 1842, Warrenton MO. m. Sarah Jane Cross 13 Jun 1867; d. 9 Dec 1910 Huntsville, WA.
> 2. Charles Hill II b. 3 Feb 1803, Nelson Co., KY; m. 8 Nov 1838 (2nd marriage) Nancy Spilman; d. 3 Jul 1869.
> 3. Charles Hill I b. 1761, St. Marys Co., MD. m. Margaret Nichols; d. 5 Mar 1846, Nelson Co., KY.
> 4. Thomas Hill b. 1 May 1723, Wiltshire, England; m. Rebecca Miles 13 Nov 1753; d. 23 May 1820, Washington Co., KY. Rebecca Miles b. abt. 1736 St. Marys Co., MD; d. 18 Mar 1783 Montgomery Co., MD. Rebecca Miles line to the Goughs is as follows:
> 5. John Miles III m. Elizabeth Gardiner.
> 6. John Miles II m. Mary Gough (next is her line)
> 7. Stephen Gough m. ?
> 8. William Gough ?
>
> Am I correct in assuming that you are a descendant of Stephen Gough? Anyway it is a small world filled with coincidences. I never cease to be amazed at what one finds with genealogy. I really enjoy the historical aspects and have learned a great deal about a multitude of subjects.
> Mark

Charles married Margaret "Peggy" Nichols on 29 Jun 1818. Margaret was born after 1754; died after 1774. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Dottie Brentlinger wrote:

>Sandi Gorin sent this on her Biographies list. As it mentions Nelson Co and Bardstown, I thought the Nelson Co list would be interested. Dottie
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sandi Gorin [mailto:sgorin@glasgow-ky.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 8:10 AM
>To: KYBIOGRAPHIES-L@rootsweb.com
>Subject: CLEMENT S HILL 10483, MARION CO
>
>I have no connection and no further information. Sandi
>
>10483 MARION CO - HILL, CLEMENT S - Hill, Miles, Pottinger,
>Cartwright,
>Hamilton, Spalding, Byrne, Chapeze, Clay, Rives
>
>#10483: Genealogy and Biography, Volume IV, 2nd edition, 1885, Marion Co.
>HON. CLEMENT S. HILL. Among the old Catholic families that at an early period in the history of the State became identified with its pioneer history and development, none have occupied a more conspicuous and honorable place than the one represented by the subject of this sketch. About the middle of the last century Thomas Hill, a member of an old English Catholic family, immigrated to America and settled in St. Mary's County, Md., where, abut the year 1754, he married Rebecca Miles, a representative of another family of similar faith, who bore him a family of seven children - three sons and four daughters. At the beginning of the year 1787, he, with his brother-in-law, Philip Miles, living up to that time near Leonardtown, St. Mary's Co., Md., arranged to remove their families to Kentucky. Their proposed journey was begun in February, and toward the end of March, on the very day they expected to land above the falls of the Ohio, their boat was fired on by the Indians. A negro slave of Thomas Hill was killed, besides several horses, and he himself was seriously wounded by the passage of an ounce ball through both of his thighs. This happened about eighteen miles above Louisville. The boat was soon carried by the current beyond reach of the savages' guns and before night its living freight of men, women and children was safely housed in that town. Soon after the entire party went to Bardstown where they remained a year, and Thomas Hill, owing to the severity of his wounds, for a much longer time. In March, 1788, Philip Miles and Harry Hill, son of Thomas Hill, purchased lands in the Pottinger's Creek settlement, to which they removed immediately and upon which they passed the remainder of their days. Thomas Hill, after recovering from his wounds, moved from Bardstown to Cartwright's Creek, in the spring of 1789, where he soon purchased land and entered upon the life of farmer. He was very zealous in his Catholic faith and was one of the chief promoters of the strong Catholic colony which afterward centered in that locality; and was chiefly instrumental in erecting the first house of worship there. He labored also to provide for his children every facility for culture that was within his means, and especially to found them securely in the Catholic faith, and to present to them reasonable motives for its constant and systematic practice. His death occurred in 1820, at the ripe age of ninety-seven years, and his descendants are numerously distributed through the South and the West. Clement Hill, the youngest son of Thomas Hill, remained with his parents until after his majority, when he married, in 1798, Mary Hamilton, a daughter of Thomas Hamilton, whose cousin Leonard was the maternal grandfather of the late Most Rev. M. J. Spalding, bishop of Louisville and archbishop of Baltimore. In the year 1803 he removed to and opened a farm lying within two miles of the site of the present town of Lebanon, where he lived to the date of his death, December 13, 1832. He was a man of exemplary faith and piety, true to the tenets of his church, and of unquestioned integrity in all the relations of life. He was the father of seventeen children born of one wife. Clement S. Hill, son of Clement, to whom this sketch is chiefly dedicated, was born on the old homestead near Lebanon, on the 13th of February 1813. He received a thorough education at St. Mary's College, Lebanon, when that institution was still controlled by its founder, Rev. Wm. Byrne. He afterward taught school in different parts of the State, and subsequently pursued the study of law under the late Benjamin Chapeze, of Bardstown, a lawyer of great ability and a man of singular worth and purity of character, and in the fall of 1837 was admitted to the bar. He located at Lebanon, and, being possessed of an analytic mind and of rare gifts as a speaker, soon secured a lucrative practice and full recognition of his legal acquirements at the hands of the leading lawyers of the State, among whom he soon occupied the front rank. He continued in active practice, adding constantly to his reputation as a successful practitioner down to 1885, feeling the effects of years of close professional study and of active work as an advocate, he relaxed his energies and made way for younger men. As a general practitioner Mr. Hill has had few superiors at the Kentucky bar. To an unexampled skill as a pleader, he had the added qualities of a strong advocate and an exceeding aptitude in the taking of proof and the establishment of his case. Politically Mr. Hill was formerly a Henry Clay Whig, but since the dissolution of the Whig party has acted more or less with political independence. He was a strong Union man during the late civil war, and was authorized by the Government to raise a regiment for the national defense, but was prevented by failing health from taking the field. In 1839 he was elected on local issues to the lower branch of the State Legislature, and in 1853, the Fifth District in Congress, serving the full term at Washington. In his religious belief he is a firm and ardent supporter of the Catholic faith. Since 1846 he has resided on his farm about two miles from Lebanon, coming to the county seat each day to attend his professional business. He was married November 24, 1840, to Miss Alathair, daughter of Joseph Spalding, of Marion County, who became the mother of twelve children. Of these four only attained years of maturity: Ann Mary, Clement J. (who died a farmer and left seven children), John B. (who died at the age of twenty-four) and Susan (wife of H. W. Rives, a native of Mississippi practicing law at Lebanon.
>

Thomas married Rebecca Miles on 13 Nov 1753 in St. Mary's County, MD. Rebecca (daughter of John Miles, III and Elizabeth Gardiner) was born in 1728 in St. Mary's County, MD; died on 18 Mar 1783 in Montgomery County, MD. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Ok, I figured it out, Mary Louise Donnelly goes back to Clement Hill, son of Thomas Hill and Rebecca Miles who is he daughter of John Miles, III and Elizabeth Gardiner. John Miles, III is the son of John Miles, II and Mary Gough, daughter of Stephen Gough and Mary Tattershall. Bob Alvey