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The Hills are an Irish family, and they came to Virginia from Ireland among the first emigrants to that state. One of them, a brother of the paternal great-grandfather of the subject, was a colonel in the Revolutionary war, and was killed in action at Kings Mountain. Charles D. Hill moved to Jackson County, North Carolina, from his native state, South Carolina, in company with his parents when he was a boy in 1852, and in 1870 he went to Macon County, North Carolina, where he lived until 1894, when he went to Grayson County, Texas. In 1906 he moved to Pawnee, Oklahoma, where he remained three years and in 1909 took up his residence in Davenport, Oklahoma, where he now resides and is engaged in the nursery and poultry business. All his previous years had been spent in mining in his various locations, but he is now content with the quiet life he leads in Davenport. Mr. Hill served three years in the Confederate army, enlisting from South Carolina in the First South Carolina Heavy Artillery. He is a member of the Methodist Church and a steward therein. His politics are those of a democrat and he is a member of the Odd Fellows. Mr. Hill married Miss Jane CRENSHAW, who was born in South Carolina in 1847, and eleven children were born to them. Charles Edgar Hill of this review was the first born. Thomas Edward lives in Blackburn, where he is a prosperous farmer. Frank Clifford is a pressman in Marshall, Texas. Jane married W. F. COOMBS, of Denison, Texas, where they have a fine farm. Herbert Clinton is a farmer in Davenport, Oklahoma. Walter died at the age of twenty-one years. Sallie married Roy YOUWELL, and they live on a farm in Whitewright, Texas. Daisey married Charles BARKER, a farmer of Iowa. Annie is the wife of Carl WHITMAN, a druggist at Henryetta, Oklahoma. Christine married H. ISBELL, a Blackburn farmer. Felix Grundy is a farmer of Blackburn, and Georgia, the youngest, lives with her parents. Charles Edgar Hill was reared on his father's farm until he reached the age of eighteen. During that time he entered the printing office of the Highland Enterprise, in North Carolina, and there served a printer's apprenticeship. In 1887 he went to Knox, Tennessee, traveling two years as a salesman, and in 1890 went to Dallas, where he was employed in various printing establishments. He continued there until 1896 when he went to Fort Worth and there assisted in the establishment of the Fort Worth Register, now called the Fort Worth Record, and one of the leading newspapers of the state. Mr. Hill remained there for a year, and in 1907-8-9 was engaged in the job printing business in Fort Worth. In 1909 he came to Granite, Oklahoma, in search of a new field, and he promptly bought out the Granite Enterprise, which he has since owned and operated. The Enterprise was established in May, 1900, by James SCARBOROUGH, and is a democratic paper in political sentiment. The plant is situated on Fourth Street, just off Main Street, and under Mr. Hill's management the equipment has been brought up to a high standard. The Enterprise circulates in Greer and other counties in Oklahoma, as well as in Texas, and has a large certified circulation outside its home state. Mr. Hill, who is a democrat, was elected by acclamation to the office of mayor of Granite in 1915, for a term of two years. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and his fraternal affiliations are with the Masons, Granite Lodge No. 134, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and Granite Lodge No. 127, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is secretary. He is a member of the State Press Associations and the Typographical Union. In 1891 Mr. Hill was married in Arcadia, Louisiana, to Miss Mattie OWEN, daughter of Rev. W. D. Owen, a Presbyterian minister, now deceased. She died in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1898, leaving him two children, Cecil and Earl, both employed by the Dallas News, in Dallas, Texas. Mr. Hill married a second time, when in 1901 Miss Lena VAN VARK became his wife in Fort Worth. She is a daughter of Peter Van Vark, a farmer, now deceased. Five children have been born to them. Ethel is now attending the Oklahoma College for Women, in Chickasha. Charles and Irene are attending the Granite High School, and the two youngest, Ernest and Albert, are yet in the home. The Hills own a nice home on West Third Street, and they have a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in the city. Typed for OKGenWeb by: Dorothy M. Tenaza, July 17, 1999. SOURCE: Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The American Historical Society, 1916)