Hill County TX Genealogy – Access Genealogy

Biography of S. R Lewis

One of this nation’s oldest families at Jamestown in 1607 together with those other pioneers they began hewing this great nation from a Virginia wilderness. This family has direct lines of decadency through the Randolphs, Washingtons, Carters and Lees each of which bears many pages of historical importance. Each epoch of the nation’s history has brought forward a Lewis to fulfill his destiny in lending his effort to the up-building of the country. For the purpose of this family’s connection with the Cherokee Nation the line will begin of record when Thomas Jefferson sent his young kinsman Meriweather Lewis to … Read more

Hill County Texas Cemeteries

A complete listing of all available online Hill County Texas cemeteries, with links to multiple cemetery transcriptions, gravestone photos, tombstone photos, official records, etc.

Fort Graham Cemetery, Hill County, Texas

(Loc: Take hwy. 933 south out of Blum, Texas, past Huron, turn right on Farm Road 2604. Just as you reach Adam’s County Store take a sharp right. The road is a gravel road and will wind past a housing addition, then wind to the right. Go across a small bridge and take the first gravel road to the left. It will resemble nothing more than a country lane, but it is covered with gravel. It will dead-end into the Fort Graham Cemetery. The cemetery is on a hill overlooking the Brazos River that is now part of Lake Whitney. … Read more

Biography of William M. Boone, M. D.

William M. Boone, M. D., who located at Highland, Doniphan County, a well-equipped physician and surgeon in 1892, had steadily practiced in that community for over a quarter of a century and is now the oldest member in point of continuous service of the local profession. Doctor Boone belongs to the family of Kentucky Boones and four or five generations back his ancestry was the same as that of the famous frontiersman and hunter, Daniel Boone. The Boone family origlnated in Southern England, and it will be recalled that Daniel Boone was a native of Pennsylvania but subsequently went to … Read more