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Born in 1876 to father William Hill and mother Gilly Frog Hill, his wavy black hair confirmed the Cherokee ancestry of mother Gilly who as daughter of Easter Frog was part or full Cherokee. Gilly Frog Finney, born abt 1845 William Hill (on right holding grandson William Thomas Atkins, Jr.) was a boyhood friend and distant cousin to wife of Luther Atkins on left whose son William Thomas Kyle Atkins married William Hill's daughter Cora Lee Frog Finney Hill. William Thomas Frog Hill Kyle Atkins, born 1936 Adaline Frog Kyle, born abt 1849 Both were born and/or raised up in Franklin County, Virginia during the era of Southern White reconstruction; and post slavery human community development among non-Whites. William Hill relocated Roanoke-Salem around 1905-1906 and worked in the Salem Tannery as a skilled tanner, ... and giving further indicators to us that his father born in 1840 may have been William Hill of Ohio (whose family were tanners) and the Union Army movements into southwest Virginia during 1862-1864. Census data below reflects the senior William Hill was born in Virginia rather than Ohio but we dare speculate he dared not reveal such living in Virginia following the Civil War.
William Frog Hill was a tanner by trade and married Lilly Finney around 1905. Lily was classified in the 1880 census as a mulatto and was somewhat frail most of her relatively short life that ended in the early 1930s. Her heritage included a father Essex Finney (born in 1843) who was perhaps the son of Alexander Finney.
Alexander Finney apparently generated a lot of offspring during his 74 year lifetime that helped seed the American Civil War necessary to end the cursed institution of chattel slavery that more often than most descendents of slave owners care to remember, ... was very much also about rampant sexual promiscuity.
William acquired land and assistance from Charles and Adaline Frog Kyle (his aunt) to build a house/home along the roadway in the section of Salem referred to as Ash-bottom wherein every household on the street (Atkins, Kyles, Finneys, Woodys were inter-related and interactive in their daily lives. William and Lily were members and patrons of the First Baptist Church of Salem; and, like many Baptists of that place and time were opposed to use of any alcoholic beverages. William's long-time buddy was Robert Woody. Robert on above right, his wife's cousin. Robert was the son of a Union army veteran who served in the U.S. Colored Troops. Robert volunteered and served honorably as a Buffalo Soldier in the 10th Cavalry Regiment, and in Spanish American War wherein he was wounded and forced to retire. 10th Cavalry Regiment
Alcoholism was the major catastrophe confronting hundreds of thousands of African-Americans and Whites in the Appalachian Mountain chain stretching from upstate New York to Alabama.
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