Matilda (Green) Hill (1845 - 1916)

Born 4 Mar 1845 in Ohio, USA

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Died 21 Jun 1916 at age 71 in Alexandria, Licking, Ohio, USA

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Biography

Matilda Green was born on 4 Mar 1845 in Ohio, USA.^[1][2][3][4] She was the daughter of Elijah Green^[1] and Matilda Miller. Matilda married John Hill. She passed away in 1916.^[5]and was buried in Green Hill Cemetery.^[6][7]

Research Notes

• Censuses have been downloaded from Ancestry.com and/or Family Search.org. The numbers at the end generally represent (Ward), (Enumeration District), and page(s)

• 1. There are two mistakes in The Green Tree one on page 422 and one on page 423-4. At the bottom of page 422 she is shown as the daughter of Regnal Green Jr. and Sarah Willison and born 4 Mar 1845. Since Sarah was born 12 Mar 1791 she would have had to be almost 54 when Matilda was born which is unlikely. The 1850 census has her aged 5. In the 1860 census Matilda is 15. In the 1870 census she's shown as 23 (i.e. b 1847) which is the date shown when she's supposed to be the daughter of Charlotte, older sister of Matilda Miller who died in 1845. This is what is shown on the top of page 434 in The Green Tree but the day and month is 4 Mar just as on page 422 and both show her death on 21 Jun 1916. in the 1900 Census her birth date is Mar 1845 which is rather definitive. Her record in the Emerson Mortuary Records shows her as b 4 Mar 1847 and both this and her Death Certificate show her as a daughter of Charlotte. But the death certificate which I downloaded from Family Search has the 7 overwritten with a 5. Given the earlier dates in the 1850, 1860 and 1900 censuses, I expect she was the daughter of Matilda, not Charlotte or Sarah. I do still need her other censuses and if possible a birth record. Finally, logically, with a second marriage and a first child, you wouldn't give the child to the father's parents to raise. But if the child was the late mother's child it makes perfect sense.

• 2. DNA analysis may be useful here. mtDNA would allow Sarah to be eliminated and either X or auDNA might separate Charlotte and Matilda.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} US Census 1850 Ohio Licking Monroe 24
2. ↑ US Census 1860 Ohio Licking Monroe 14
3. ↑ US Census 1870 Ohio Licking Monroe 4
4. ↑ US Census 1900 Ohio Licking Monroe 143 20
5. ↑ The Green Tree Pages 422-4
6. ↑ Emerson Mortuary Records p40
7. ↑ Her Death Certificate

• The Green Tree: A Branch from the Green Tree - Robert M Green (c) 1978 Printed Gateway Press, Inc.

• Emerson Mortuary Records. These are supposed to have been transcribed by the Johnstown Genealogical Society. The copy in Dave Dardinger's collection was made from the set at the Green Hill Cemetery in the presence of Dave and his brother Bob in the late 1990s or early 2000s. The death dates range from 1884 to 1930.