But I am not above dangling a challenge in front of OCD researchers and tacitly daring them to find the answer to a problem.
And it worked. Several people took the challenge and ran with it to much success. Sometimes all that is needed is a fresh perspective.
Turns out that Infant Hill and James Richard Hill are in fact cousins. 1st cousins twice removed to be precise. The Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Hill noted on their shared headstone refer to Newton Edward Hill and Mary Elizabeth (Griffith) Hill. She is a Half 2nd Great Aunt. She and my paternal Great-Grandfather were half siblings, sharing the same father, one James Macon Griffith (also interred in the same cemetery with these two brothers - two of his grandchildren).
These revelations came after new records for N E and Mary became available after I last researched them. Of particular note was his obituary and her death certificate, and their listed on the 1900 US Census. The first two items gave me their burial location - Prospect United Methodist Church in Jackson County, Ga. As it happens, this is the same church where her half-brother, my paternal great-grandfather, was originally buried prior to being moved in the late 1950s to the new, fancy-smantzy perpetual care cemetery nearer to Athens.
Anyhoo....
The bottom line of all this is that I ended up spending several hours fleshing out this whole new branch of the tree down several generations. Like I need sleep. Sheesh,
Not that it matters to anyone at all, but since I had proof of their burial location I created Find A Grave memorials for Newton and Mary and then linked the two brothers to them. I also found that their son, Newton, Jr. and his wife also lost a child at birth. I found its death certificate and that it, too, was buried at Prospect UMC. So I added a memorial for it and linked it to the parents.
Yup. Hours of tree building and Find A Grave updates. And putting off sleep.
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