| Name |
HILLYER, Brazilla P. |
| Birth |
6 Mar 1815 |
Massachusetts, USA  [1, 2] |
- PHILETUS BRAZILLA7 HILLYER, b. March 06, 1815, Mass; d. 1907.- Bruce Arnold letter
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| Gender |
Male |
| Military Service |
Abt 1861 |
Union Army, Civil War veteran [2] |
- Served in Civil War, Trumbull Guards, Ohio Infantry
|
| Census |
20 Jul 1870 |
Rochester, Olmsted County, Minnesota, USA [2] |
| Residence |
10 Nov 1882 |
Fargo, Cass County, North Dakota |
- Letter to brother Oswin, dated Nov 10, 1882, Fargo, North Dakota. "Dear Brother, Sister & All the young folks. We are all of us old folks. Well at this writing I received a letter from you dated Oct 6, I got it the 8th. Was glad to hear from you & your prospects for the winter, wish I had some Buckwheat flour to buy it & see if it would tast [sic] good with a sop in greese from my pig I butchered him the other day, he was six months old the day I butchered & he tiped the scales at 300 lbs neat dressed & it is good to eat. Who can beat that. I fed him on corn meal and water. I milk one cow now shall have two more to milk before long, one in this month & one in Dec. & I shall sell the milk I get $1.00 for 10 qts.all cash. But I have to buy hay $8- per ton now & it will be higher. Hay was very light, not over 1/2 ton to the acre & short & not worth cutting it. Will be & is scarce. I will have a load tomorrow 1 1/2 tons for $12. I must buy 6 tons & lots of feed Bran & shorts Bran is 60 cts per hunderd [sic], shorts 75 to 80, corn 50 per hunderd straw is not good it got wet just when it was thrashed a big rain for one day with a heavy wind went through the straw & that was all the rain this summer. My potatoes was never wet to the potatoes after I planted them & there is no rain yet. I put 100 bushels in the celler they are middling size & there was better potatoes to eat, thye [sic] are like floor when cooked. I don't sell any shall keep them for seed. They are Sunlet Star and Charles Downing...." "But wheat Wheat is all rage. No. 1 hard it costs only 35 to 40 cts. to raise it on the big farms & some say 25 cts per bushel on the bonanza farms that is on the 10 or 15 section farms where it is all done in sections with a driver where they have to get down or get off the premises regular slaves from early till late for $2.50 per day Never saw a Hillyer that would make a good slave only for himself..." "Well I will close by saying I don't get any letter from Millissa sence they left for Mississippi. But she will write some time I guess. A.J.Tylers were well when I last heard. Write please soon. P.B. Hillyer" The copy I received was typed and I wonder if maybe the date was entered wrong as he speaks of "Millissa sence they left for Mississippi" - We know that David Demaree Halstead died West Ft. Dodge in 1887 and that Betsy Melissa moved with son David Wileder and family [including sister Jane Elizabeth] to Ocean Springs, MS. Thus i feel the date of this letter is more probably 1892 instead of 1882.
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| Living |
1889 |
State of North Dakota, USA [2] |
- Residence: 1889, North Dakota per Military Pension Application
|
| Name |
Philetus Brazilla HILLYER [2] |
| _UID |
ED20048321A2C24F838327F9A6AEB1EA7DCE |
| Death |
1907 [2] |
| Person ID |
I32838 |
Garys-Tree |
| Last Modified |
7 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
HILLYER, Philetus [6], b. 24 Jan 1787, State of Connecticut, USA d. 1 Oct 1860, West Mecca, Trumbull County, Ohio (Age 73 years) |
| Mother |
HOLCOMB, Chloe - 1st wife -, b. 29 May 1789, Granby, Hartford County, Connecticut d. 24 Mar 1844, Johnston Twp, Trumbull County, Ohio, USA (Age 54 years) |
| Marriage |
10 May 1811 |
Granby, Hartford County, Connecticut [3, 4] |
- Carl Hillyer data gives "May 10,1811 Granby, OH"
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| Family ID |
F11819 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
SMITH, Eleanore E. - 1st wife -, b. 1 Jan 1818 d. 21 Aug 1853, Trumbull County, Ohio, USA (Age 35 years) |
| Marriage |
11 Sep 1837 |
West Mecca, Trumbull County, Ohio [2, 4] |
| Children |
| | 1. HILLYER, Alice, b. 1838, Trumbull County, Ohio, USA |
| | 2. HILLYER, Zizina, b. 1840, Trumbull County, Ohio, USA |
| | 3. HILLYER, Adaetta, b. 1842, Trumbull County, Ohio, USA |
| | 4. HILLYER, Riley William, b. 9 Jun 1845, Trumbull County, Ohio, USA d. 3 Feb 1909 (Age 63 years) |
| | 5. HILLYER, Dexter, b. 1848, Trumbull County, Ohio, USA |
| | 6. HILLYER, Jasper, b. Apr 1850, State of Ohio, USA |
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| Family ID |
F12761 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
7 Feb 2024 |
1815 - 1907 (91 years)