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- Family Note:
From Middlesex Homes and Places ....:
"Henry Yiend Hill, son of Amos Hill (6), was born at West Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 5, 1811, died at Belmont, May 19, 1886. At the death of his father he received his share of the estate and began market gardening. He was successful, raising all kinds of produce for the Boston market. He took Jonathan B. Heald as an equal partner, and they were associated for a time, when Mr. Heald went to Woburn. Mr. Hill then continued in the business alone, until ten years before his death, when he let the property to Edward and Marcellus Hemmenway, who continued in his place. He later dealt extensively in stocks. He was a very successful gardener, running his farm on a paying basis, and his accounts were always correct to a cent. He was considered strictly honest in all his dealings. He was a man of medium height and complexion, retiring in manner; generous, doing many deeds of charity. He was an attendant at the Unitarian church, later at the Baptist church. He was a Whig, later a Republican ; a man of strong' temperance principles. He trained when a young man in the early militia. He married, at Alexandria, New Hampshire, Sarah Emily Bailey, born November 6, 1825, daughter of George and Sally (Bailey) Bailey.
"Children: 1. George Bailey, born December 8, 1847, died August 8, 1849. 2. Emma Rosella (twin), born September 25, 1850, married, November 18, 1875, John Howard Richardson, of Belmont ; children : i. Lillian Hill, born January 21, 1877; ii. Helen Manness, September 11, 1879; iii. Grace Harding, July 22, 1882. 3. Ella Evalina (twin), born September 25, 1850, married, June 30. 1885. Henry H. Sturtevant, of ZanesviUe, Ohio. 4. Georgianna, born December 25, 1852. married, November 16, 1882, Henry F. Bowen, of Weston, Massachusetts. 5. An infant son died May 5, 1855. 6. Sarah Maria, born in 1856, died February 24, 1858. 7. Helen Augusta, born January 16. 1860, married Arthur Jeduthan Wellington, of Belmont; children: i. Charles Oliver, born October 1, 1886; ii. Henry Hill, May 6, 1890; iii. Emily, June 5, 1891 ; iv. Dorothy, April 14, 1893 ; v. Barbara, January 6, 1895 ; vi. Ruth, February 7, 1898. 8. Henrietta, born April 2, 1862, died June 16, 1879.
"Mrs. Sarah Emily (Bailey) Hill has at all times taken an active interest in all enterprises that tended toward the advancement of the church and moral good of the neighborhood. She was active in the building of the First Baptist Church of Arlington, and also in the building of the present new edifice, having been a member of the building committee."
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