- Son of Alexander Hill, Sr. and Elizabeth Currie
Married Agnes Hood, 6 April 1832, Tosorontio, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
Children - Margaret Hill, Margaret Ann Hill, Alexander Hood Hill, Alexander Hood Hill, James Hood Hill, Elizabeth Hood Hill, William Hood Hill, Moroni Hood Hill, Agnes Hood Hill, Nephi Hood Hill, Isabella Hood Hill, Joseph Robert Hill, Jane Mary Hill, Hyrum Hood Hill
Missionaries Samuel Lake and James Standing converted the Hill family of Simcoe County to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1840. A family history records that; "The whole Hill family became interested in this faith, and notwithstanding the fact that Alexander Hill, his wife Elizabeth and son-in-law John Richards were momentarily less susceptible to these principles of faith than the other members of the family, yet on 12th April 1840, all the members of this family (including Archibald and wife Isabella Hood) went down into the waters of baptism.
A Hill family history records that; "In the spring of the year 1841 Archibald Newell Hill (who had married Isabella Hood a year earlier), John Hill (his brother) and five other members of this branch of the Church crossed over the boundary lines of Canada into the United States, and wended their way to Nauvoo, Illinois, where they stayed for a short time. They returned (to Simcoe County), laden with Biblical grapes for their report. Considerable time was now spent in disposing of their farms and making preparations for their departure. All being ready near the beginning of September, Archibald and family and relatives started for the United States on the 30th day of this month, in the year 1842.
Archibald Hill and his brother Alexander were a part of the first (winter) exodus, but they left their wives Isabella and Agnes Hood and 10 children at Nauvoo while they took their teams and helped haul Mormon refugees westward. Returning to Nauvoo for their families and parents, they then re-crossed Iowa and did not reach the Missouri until late autumn.
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, Allen Taylor Company (1849)
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1811 - 1889 (77 years)
