I, David Hill, was born at Smithfield, Cache County, Utah, on June 6, 1868, the youngest one of a family of seven, two having died on the plains. My mother, Susannah Tonks Hill, died when I was fifteen moths old, and she is buried at Smithfield. My father, Aaron Hill, who was a native of Willenhall, England, lived at Smithfield some time after that. I don't know just how long. I was taken to Salt Lake City some time soon after my mother died, where I lived with my Aunt Eliza Tonks Beason for about two years. My father married again when I was about four years old, and moved over onto the west side of Bear River to a place called Trenton, which was then an open range, where he kept a herd of sheep and dry stock during the summer months. When I got big enough my life was spent taking care of the herds from the time I was eight or nine until I was eighteen or nineteen. When the range was pretty well taken up in homesteads, my father abandoned the summer herding.

During this time it seemed hard to get schooling. The school teachers were paid by the people who sent children to school by paying so much a term for each child, ten weeks being considered a term. Besides this, the parents had to furnish their own books, which made it hard to educate their children. My school days in actual school was a term and a half, and this was got in two or three different winters. My books ranged from first to fifth grades. I had books which had been used by others, such as we could get.

After I quit having the summer herd, I went on the railroad grading for two summers, driving team for George Merrill. After that I followed farming.

I was baptized in 1879 by William Blanchard. I was rebaptized by W. D. Grover just a year before I was ordained and Elder. I was married on April 20, 1892, when I was about twenty-four years old, to Emma Flora Wheeler. We lived in Trenton for about two years after our marriage, where I followed farming. Earl, our oldest son, was born on February 24, 1893. We farmed that summer and the next fall moved to Idaho where I took up placer mining for about five years at Tilden, Idaho. George, our second son, was born on September 22, 1894.

We moved to Anaconda, Montana, where I worked during that fall and winter in the woods lumbering. We came back to Tilden the next spring, where we still followed placer mining for two more years. Our only daughter, Laura, was born on June 14, 1897, here at Tilden.

During this time I rode horseback from Tilden to Iona, a distance of about sixty-five miles, to be ordained an Elder on October 22, 1898.

This same fall we went to Logan to go to the Temple. We traveled in a covered wagon with our three children, Earl, George, and Laura. We were a month completing the trip, but I stopped for a while and worked for my brother on the threshing machine to get money enough to come home. The children were stricken with scarlet fever while we were returning home, and it snowed on us most of the way.

Howard, another son, was born on June 28, 1899.

During this fall we moved to Rigby and rented a farm, where we farmed for three years. We lived in the Rudy Ward. Ray, another son, was born here on April 18, 1901.

We moved from here to Pocatello, and I worked in the railroad shops, where I was a boiler maker's helper.

Then we moved from here to Blackfoot, purchased a tract of ten acres in what was known as the Younie Addition, where we lived for about seven years. During this time we rented places on the outside and still farmed. While we lived here, Elmer was born on February 25, 1907, and Clarence was born on July 5, 1909.

We moved to Wapello and rented a farm from Nathan Parrish. We lived here a year and then moved down on a farm between the rivers, owned by J. O. Jarvis, and farmed there a year. Then we moved back to town in the winter and the next spring moved to Wapello on a farm owned by W. J. Hill. After this we homesteaded forty acres, on which we lived for about fifteen years. Merlin, our youngest son, was born here on May 31, 1915, and our three oldest children got married. George married Georgia Neville, Laura married William Austin Ransom, and Earl married Elvina Ransom, a sister to William.

On April 18, 1921, Earl's little daughter, Elvina, was born. Her mother died when the baby was a week old, so Earl and the baby came home to live with us again and lived there until Earl was married again in 1934.

Then we left Wapello and moved to Thomas, where we lived a year. We rented a farm and farmed, and the next year we rented land on the Fort Hall Indian reservation near Gibson. While here I drove a milk route into Blackfoot to the Kraft Cheese Company for about eight years. We belonged to the Riverton Branch, which was later made into the Riverton Ward.

We rented land for three years. During the third year the children got typhoid fever. Merlin lay unconscious for several weeks. Clarence had it, and Elvina lay ill with it for a long time. Elmer had the disease and his wife had a young baby, so we brought him home and nursed him through the typhoid.

We then bought a farm of twenty acres and lived there for about twelve years.

While we lived at Wapello, I took care of my father-in-law for about two and a half years until he died and was buried in Blackfoot. I took care of my mother-in-law for about twelve years until she died and was buried by the side of her husband.

My wife died on July 21, 1931, and was buried in Blackfoot. My daughter, Laura, and her family lived with us and kept house for Earl, Earl's daughter, Merlin, and myself for about three years, or until I got married again on my sixty-sixth birthday, June 6, 1934. I married Hermina Lubenstein Schultz. Earl and I had a double wedding in the Logan Temple. Earl married Dora Gifford. My wife's mother lived with her until her death in 1935.

Ray married Verna Miller while we lived at Wapello, and Howard married Rhoda Homer. Elmer married Anna Hansen, and Clarence married Myrtle Keele while we lived on the Reservation.

I worked in the Sunday School all my life. I was librarian in the Sunday School at Wapello. I was also a teacher there, where I taught a class of young people. I worked on the Old Folks' Committee at Wapello for a number of years and I was also in the Mutual Presidency there.

I was Presiding Teacher in Blackfoot. During this time I was called out to conduct funerals, and I entertained home missionaries when they came to our ward. I was chairman of the Genealogical Committee for a number of years. I was also Presiding Elder in the Elders of Blackfoot for a number of years.

We moved to Riverside in 1936, where we still live in 1940. Merlin, our last child, married Ruth Homer on June 24, 1938.

David Hill lived at Riverside until May 31, 1941. After having done his chores that night, he died suddenly of a heart attack, and was buried in Blackfoot by the side of his wife, Emma Flora. The funeral was held in the Riverside Ward.

His wife, Hermina, all his children and all his daughters-in-law and his son-in-law and all his step children attended his funeral, besides which there were twenty-two grandchildren and one great-grandchild, and many other relatives and friends.

Six of his seven sons, George, Howard, Elmer, Clarence, Ray, and Merlin were pall bearers. Some of his grandchildren carried the flowers.