Asa Hill of Rutersville

Hill is often confused with Abram Wiley Hill of Bastrop. He came to Texas about 1834 with a son and his nephew Isaac Lafayette Hill, bringing the rest of his family the next year; he and Elizabeth had thirteen children. Because Houston sent him east to warn settlers, he missed San Jacinto. Before Mier he and his sons rode with the Somervell expedition. Their release from Perote late in 1843 came through his son John's appeals to Generals Ampudia and Santa Anna. In 1975 his remains were moved from Cedar Creek to the old cemetery at La Grange.

What the plaque says

Asa Hill of Rutersville (1788? - 1844) Born in Martin County, N.C. Married Elizabeth Barksdale in Georgia, Oct. 6, 1808. Came to Texas 1835. In army in 1836, was sent by Gen. Houston to warn people in enemy's path. Settled here 1839. In 1840, enrolled eight children in Rutersville College. With sons Jeffrey and John C.C., joined the 1842 expedition to Mier, Mex.; captured, he drew a white bean thus escaped death, but was in prison until Aug. 1843. Jeffrey was wounded, captured, likewise imprisoned. John C.C., then 14, was adopted by Gen. Santa Anna. Asa Hill died here; was buried on Cedar Creek, off SH 159. Incise on back of marker: In Memory of Jeffrey Barksdale Hill, son of Asa Hill; william Carroll Jackson Hill, son of Asa Hill; James Monroe Hill, son of asa Hill; Asa Collinsworth Hill, son of Asa Hill; John Christopher Columbus Hill, son of Asa Hill; Lucy Amanda (Hill) Jones, daughter of James Monroe Hill; Frank Webb Hill, son of James Monroe Hill; George Alfred Hill, Jr., grandson of James Monroe Hill; Thomas Lindsay Blanton, great-grandson of Asa Hill (1973)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas Wendish Heritage Museum — 16 mi
  A museum at Serbin of the Wends, a Slavic people from Lusatia whose congregation of nearly 600 crossed on the Ben Nevis in 1854, losing seventy-three to cholera on the way.
• Lake Somerville State Park and Trailway — 23 mi
  Two park units on an 11,000-acre lake between Austin and College Station, joined by a thirteen-mile trailway for hikers, cyclists and riders with primitive camps along the way.

More markers nearby

• Rutersville — steps away
• Rutersville College — 0.4 mi
• Site of First Methodist Annual Conference in Texas — 0.4 mi
• Oldenburg — 2.7 mi