Biography of Harriet "Hattie" Hill Huckabee.

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Biography of Harriet "Hattie" Hill Huckabee.

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Alabama.

Publication Date

1828.

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Biography of Harriet "Hattie" Hill Huckabee
Harriet "Hattie" Hill Huckabee was born on August 10, ca. 1867-70, in Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama, the daughter of Homer Hill (1845-1914) and Mildred "Milly" Edmonia Watt (1845-1928). Homer Hill was a farmer, and the son of Fabius Fenelon Hill (1817-1885), a plantation owner and enslaver, and Harriet Hamilton (1828-1911), who was possibly an enslaved African American woman. According to Rebecca Motley, M.D., the Hill family historian and a great-great niece of Hattie Hill Huckabee, it appears that Fabius Fenelon Hill was in favor of educating his children, despite their social status in society as being of a mixed racial background. This led to a legacy of education in the Hill family. It appears that Homer and Milly Hill had approximately twelve children, many of whom were educated, becoming educators themselves. Milly Watt Hill was the daughter of Captain Hugh Washington Watt, V (1813-1872), and a Cajun woman from Louisiana, which led to a similar family of mixed racial background.

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