. Lives of distinguished North Carolinians . ••• .. DANIEL H. HILL. DANIEL HARVEY HILL. .>;.f> General Hills mother was Nancy Cabeen, the daughter ofThomas Cabeen, a native Scotchman, who was Sumterstrusted scout, and himself the bravest man in his command,as the General himself often declared. Two uncles of Gen-eral Hill were soldiers in the second war with England, andone of them was the adjutant of Colonel Arthur P. HaynesRegiment. Solomon Hill, his father, died when his son Har-vey was but four years old, leaving him, with four other chil-dren, to be reared by a mother who was noted
. Lives of distinguished North Carolinians . ••• .. DANIEL H. HILL. DANIEL HARVEY HILL. .>;.f> General Hills mother was Nancy Cabeen, the daughter ofThomas Cabeen, a native Scotchman, who was Sumterstrusted scout, and himself the bravest man in his command,as the General himself often declared. Two uncles of Gen-eral Hill were soldiers in the second war with England, andone of them was the adjutant of Colonel Arthur P. HaynesRegiment. Solomon Hill, his father, died when his son Har-vey was but four years old, leaving him, with four other chil-dren, to be reared by a mother who was noted for her piety,culture, common sense, and devotion. Like all Scotch andScotch-Irish Presbyterians of the old school, she exacted ofher sons the most rigid observance of the Sabbath. Hill, a somewhat wayward brother of General Hill,often declared, after he had reached middle age, that duringhis bovhood he ahvavs took the blues on Thursdav morn- t/ t/ «/ ing because Sunday was coming. The boys were required,each in his turn, to select and re
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