The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10
ALLIE HILL.
Something About the Young Woman Who
Is Troubling Seua Sharon.

Something About the Young Woman Who
Is Troubling Sena Sharon.
st. Louis Special.
Charles A. Davis, an attorney of this city,
is probably the best posted man in ST. Louis
concerning the Hills, an old Missouri fami-
ly, and more particularly concerning Miss
Hill, whose recent California adventures in
connection with ex-senator Sharon have Gre
ated so much talk throughout the country.
THE young lady" said Mr. Davis, twas ia
miliarly known as Allie in her girlhood.
Newspapers had referred to her as 'Aggle,'
and this latter name hid her identity for
some time from her relatives and friends in
Missouri. Her grandfather, Morgan Hill,
was prosperous farmer and STAKEHOLDER,
more than fifty years ago, in Big Prairie, New
Madrid county, this State. HIS first wife, q
Maryland lady, was the mother of Samuel
A. Hill, the father of Allie. The grandfather
was married twice his first wife being the
mother of Samuel C. Hill Allies father.
and one other child, dauahter, named Su-
san. This lady, Morgan Hills first spouse,
was a Miss Brown, sister of DR.. Brown, once
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of this State. In his
second matrimonial venture Morgan Hill
Joined fortune with Mrs. Malsby, the widow
of an influential attorney. By this marriage
be secured considerable property.
Susan Hill, Allies aunt, became the wife
of Isaac Hunter, who was later judge of the
Scott County Court. Samuel A. Hill was
educated for the legal profession at Balti-
more and read law under General N. W.
Watkins a haif-brother of Henry Clay, at
Jackson, Mo. He was welded to Miss Julia
Sloan, daughter of Hiram L. Sloan, who
was originally from North Carolina. Two
children were born to the couple-Allie, who
is now about thirtytwo years of age, and
her brother Morgan, who is now out in
California. Mr. Hill made his home at Cape
Girardeau, where his abilities gained him
In nial
disposition surrounded the man with warm
friends.
"Allie in those days was a pretty child,
the admiration of grown people and the en-
Wy of her playmates Prosperity and do
mestic felicity filed the measure of happi-
ness for the family until failing health in
duced Mr.. Hill to seek a more congenial
climate with the relatives of his wife in
New Orleans, where he died of consumption
at the residence Of his wife's uncle, Albert
H Brevard. well-known commission mer-
chant of the Crescent City. This was prior
to the opening OF the war. Mrs Hill having
died shortly before that the two orphans,
Allie and Morgan, were cared for and sent
TO school by the Brevard family and other
relatives of Mrs. Hill in New Orleans"
The inheritance of the children, Mr.. Davis
thinks, amounted to something like $4,000
Later on, when Allie had grown to be a
Young miss, she went to Cape Girardeau,
Mo-, where she made her home among her
relatives and finished her education. She
made her home chiefly with Mrs. Zalina
Black, who kept one of the leading hotels of
the place, and soon became the recognized
belle of the city, She was of the brunei
type, had clear, peachy complexion, and
was graceful, modest and brilliant in CONVEX
sation. In 1870 she visited ST. Louis. While
here she made her home at Mr., Davis's
house, and it was in the parlor of his resi-
dence that an engagement was broken off be-
tween her and a gentleman who to-day is
known as a wealthy merchant of this city.
Concluding her visit here, she went back to
Cape Girardeau, and from there went with
her brother Morgan to California.