{"id":37,"date":"2013-07-06T11:27:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T16:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/vanburen2\/?p=37"},"modified":"2013-07-06T11:27:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T16:27:13","slug":"hillis-blackstone-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/vanburen\/hillis-blackstone-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"HILLIS, Blackstone Oregon (b. 1854)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Honored and respected by all, there is no man in Van Buren County who occupies a more enviable position in agricultural and political circles than Mr. Hillis<\/strong>, who is now the efficient and popular register of deeds of the county.\u00a0 He possesses untiring energy, is quick of perception, forms his plans readily and is determined in their execution, and his close application to business and excellent management have brought to him the prosperity which is to-day his.<\/p>\n

On Rocky River, in the Eighth district, upon the farm where he now lives, Mr. Hillis<\/strong> was born March 12, 1854, a son of Isaac and Jane (Logue) Hillis.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 The father was born near Lexington, Ky., and was one of the first settlers on Rocky River, the country round about being then a vast cane brake.\u00a0 Bear was plentiful and deer and wild turkey abounded.\u00a0 Throughout life he followed the occupation of farming and was very successful.\u00a0 On coming to Van Buren county, he was accompanied by his brother, James Hillis<\/strong>.\u00a0 He was twice married, his first wife being Rebecca Naylor<\/strong>, who died many years ago.\u00a0 His death occurred March 9, 1877, in the house now occupied by our subject, when he was eighty-nine years of age.\u00a0 In politics, he was a pronounced Democrat.\u00a0 The mother of our subject, who was a consistent member of the Christian church, was born on Rocky River, Van Buren county, and died here in 1891, at the age of seventy-seven years.\u00a0 By each wife the father had twelve children, but only eight of the twenty-four are now living, namely;\u00a0 Rebecca<\/strong>, widow of Chris Hager<\/strong>, and a resident of McLennon county, Texas; James, who lives at the head of Rocky River in Van Buren county;\u00a0 Roswell,<\/strong> whose home is also in that locality; Squire,<\/strong> a resident of Van Buren county; and Virginia<\/strong>, wife of Nelson R. Gully<\/strong>, a prominent farmer of this valley.\u00a0 The three named, together with our subject, are children of the second marriage.<\/p>\n

In the schools near his father’s home, Blackstone O. Hillis<\/strong> obtained his education.\u00a0 At the age of sixteen years he began earning his own livelihood, and has since successfully engaged in general farming and stock raising, owning a fine farm in the valley and another in the mountains.\u00a0\u00a0 He was married on the 11th of January, 1875, the lady of his choice being, Miss Martha Denney<\/strong>, who was born on Laurel Creek, and is a daughter of Preston Denney<\/strong>.\u00a0 To them were born three children, but Revedy<\/strong> is the only one now living, the others having died in infancy.<\/p>\n

Since attaining his majority Mr. Hillis<\/strong> has been an ardent Democrat, and on that ticket was elected register of Van Buren county in 1896.\u00a0 His wife holds membership in the Christian church.<\/p>\n

Memorial and Biographical Record, an Illustrated Compendium of Biography.\u00a0 Geo. A. Ogle & Co., Chicago, 1898, pp. 474 and 475.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Honored and respected by all, there is no man in Van Buren County who occupies a more enviable position in agricultural and political circles than Mr. Hillis, who is now the efficient and popular register of deeds of the county.\u00a0 He possesses untiring energy, is quick of perception, forms his plans readily and is determined Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17,16,15,12,13,14],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","tag-denney","tag-gully","tag-hager","tag-hillis","tag-logue","tag-naylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/vanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/vanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/vanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/vanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/vanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/vanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/vanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/vanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/vanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/vanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}