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Your County Team Associate is Nathan Zipfel and I’m really glad you stopped by and I hope that you find this website useful for your genealogical research.
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HEADER Miles Hileman MILES HILEMAN, a farmer of Manor township, was born in Armstrong county in 1863, son of Alexander and Elizabeth (Iseman) Heilman and grandson of Solomon Heilman, as the earlier generations spelled the name. He is a descendant of Peter Heilman (Sr.) and his wife Elizabeth (Harter). Solomon Heilman, who followed farming all … Read more
HEADER Edward Hill EDWARD HILL, of Leechburg, Pa., was born in Allegheny township, Westmoreland county, April 19, 1861, and is a son of John Hill, who died Jan. 18,1900, and is buried in the Evergreen cemetery, near that town. Among the daring frontiersmen who settled southwestern Pennsylvania was the Hill family, who located near the … Read more
HEADER Hill Family  HILL.–From a brief account of the early history of the Hill family, compiled by Lewis A. Hill, and read to the Hill heirs at the annual Hill reunion, 1907. At our first reunion, as president of our association, I was expected to give some history of grandfather and of his ancestry. … Read more
HEADER James R Hill JAMES R. HILL, sheet roller, employed in the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company�s plant at Leechburg, Pa., was born in Butler county, Pa., Oct. 16, 1866, son of Shiloh and Mary E. (Weaver) Hill. James R. Hill obtained his education in the public schools and the Leechburg Academy, and afterward … Read more
HEADER James Hill JAMES HILL, retired farmer of South Buffalo township, one of the oldest residents of that part of Armstrong county, was born Oct. 9, 1828, in County Tyrone, Ireland, son of James B. and Margaret (Brown) Hill, of the same place. The parents grew up and married there. James B. Hill was a … Read more
HEADER John A. Hill JOHN A. HILL, member of the firm of Stull-Hill-Coulter Company, general merchants at Leechburg, was born in Butler county, Pa., March 5, 1863, son of Shiloh and Mary E. (Weaver) Hill. Shiloh Hill was born Oct. 18, 1825, on the old family homestead in what is now Gilpin township, Armstrong county. … Read more
HEADER Lewis A. Hill LEWIS A. HILL, who resides on a farm in Gilpin township, Armstrong county, about four miles from Leechburg, is a representative member of the family to which he belongs and has taken particular interest in its history, having made researches which have added considerably to the knowledge of their ancestors possessed … Read more
HEADER Winchester Hill WINCHESTER HILL, a farmer of Parks township, Armstrong county, was born at Leechburg, PA., June 20, 1833, son of Jacob and Hannah (Ulam) Hill. His paternal grandfather was John Hill. Jacob Hill, son of John Hill, and father of Winchester Hill, was born Aug. 15, 1802. At one time he was numbered … Read more
HEADER Philip F Hillwig PHILIP F. HILLWIG, a farmer of Brady�s Bend township, Armstrong county, was born in that township Nov. 25, 1874, son of John C. Hillwig. The father was born in Germany, whence he came to Brady�s bend township in young manhood. Here he married a girl by the name of Merchant and … Read more
HEADER Harry E Himes HARRY E. HIMES, managing editor of the Kittanning Tribune, at Kittanning, was born April 3, 1872, at New Bethlehem, Clarion county, Pa., son of Joseph C. and Margaret (Rutherford) Himes. Joseph C. Himes was a carpenter and builder, a good, practical business man. His death occurred when he was sixty-two years … Read more