From History of Medina Co by Baskin & Battery: From a paper prepared by the Hon. Myron A. Hills:..."I will first speak of my father, Elizur Hills. He was born in East Windsor, Conn., March 22, 1768. My mother, Abigail Codding, was born October 2, 1772. Of my father's early history, I know but little, save that at nine years of age he lost his father, and in the employ of others he fared' hard, and was hard worked. He always loved books and read much. I have heard him say, that, at the age of fourteen, during the war of the Revolution, he was very anxious to stand a draft for the army in place of his brother Norman, who, though older, was not as large, and, thinking that size rather than age might determine the issue, he stretched himself to his utmost height, but he failed and became very much chagrined. He came at an early day, among the first there, to Ontario County, N. Y., and bought land at 50 cents an acre. He married there in 1792." - This is on the same tombstone as Amanda Hills. Lorinda C was the wife of Tracy H Hills--her maiden name was Clark. Her husband is also on this tombstone, along with sons Tracy H and Tracy Hamilton. - Tracy Hills Medina County Gazette Friday March 22, 1872 p. 3 At his home in Lafayette, adjoining Medina Village, on Saturday, March 16th, 1872, Tracy Hamilton Hills, aged 68 years and 3 days. Thus another of the first settlers has passed away. Mr. H was born in Bristol, Ontario Co, N. Y., from whence with his father’s family he came to Granger in the fall of 1818, he then being between 14 and 15 years old. His temperament was of the sanguine, with not a little of the nervous, which made him no laggard in the pursuits of those early days. In 1843 he married Miss Lorinda Clark of Richfield. They have had seven children, two dying young and five remaining. ... Lee Ann Shade - This one took a lot of scrubbing to be able to see anything and then, unfortunately, I discovered that the dates were buried. According to a family tree submitted to ancestry.com: MARILLA HILLS was born 26 May 1812 in Bristol, Ontario, New York, USA, and died 26 Aug 1838 in Granger, Medina, Ohio, USA. However, I don't know what their source was for this information. - Medina County Gazette Friday Dec 19, 1890 p. 7 Myron Codding Hills was born in Ontario Co., N. Y., March 24, 1810, came with his parents to Granger, Medina Co., Ohio in the fall of 1818. He and his next older brother, C. T. Hills, late of Medina, one less than nine years of age, the other not eleven, walking from Cleveland to the south line of Granger, a distance of twenty-eight miles, and no roads as now, only a track cut through the woods. Coming as they did at so early a day, he has seen and felt all the hardships and vicissitudes of pioneer life. He helped to cut down the forests, to subdue the obstacles to cultivation and has lived to see this once densely wooded county become the home of thousands of happy and prosperous people. He was married to Mary C. Paull Sept. 27, 1838, lived in Sharon, Granger and Hinckley until 1871 when he came to Medina. He was chosen to represent Medina Co. in the Ohio Legislature in 1860 and ’61, again in ’62 and ’63, serving two terms in the most trying time in the history of the State. In 1864 he entered the service of his country with a captain’s commission in the commissary department, was stationed at Nashville, Tennessee, serving until May ’65, when his health failing, he resigned and came home. In 1841 or 1842, he was baptized by Marshall L Wilcox, entered the Christian church in Sharon, walking faithfully and devotedly for three or four years when, from deaths and removals, the little church went down. From that time until the Disciple church was organized in Medina he remained, outside of any church organization and while he discarded many questions of theology, he never lost his faith in Christ. We have evidence of this in his earnest efforts and his lavish expenditures of time and substance in the establishment of this church, which under God, owes its existence to him and his devoted wife, and the result can only be measured in that day when we must all stand face to face with our life work. He died Dec 7th, 1890, in Granger, after a lingering illness of almost eleven weeks, at B. L. Shade’s, the home of his adopted daughter, where he was care for till the poor, worn out body was released from all earth’s pains and cares. In all his weariness and suffering he was never impatient and required very little of those who cared for him. He would often say how good they all were to him, and ask God to ever be with them, referring to his dear wife and the family there. An upright citizen, obliging as a neighbor, a faithful and true friend, most loving and kindly in his domestic relations, a good Christian man has gone from among us. Unto such our Savior say; “Come! Ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” He died at the home of my great great uncle Benjamin Shade, who married Myron C Hill's adopted daughter, the orphan of his wife's brother, William Rolling Paull. Myron C Hills wrote of his walk from Cleveland to Granger as a boy with one of my great great great uncles, William Grant Low.