Hill, J. L. S., 1818-1899

J. L. S. Hill was a Mississippi politician and public official during the nineteenth century. Born in Chester County, South Carolina, on January 27, 1818, Hill moved to Chickasaw County, Mississippi, as a young man. He became active in Democratic politics in the state, serving the Mississippi House of Representatives in the late 1850s. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Hill volunteered for military service, receiving a commission in the state militia and then serving with the Thirty-first Mississippi Infantry Regiment in 1862 and 1863. After the war, he continued to be active in political affairs in Chickasaw County. He served as sheriff of his county in the mid-1870s and returned to the Mississippi legislature in the late 1870s. Hill died on June 18, 1899 and is buried in Wesley Chapel Cemetery, Houston, Mississippi. (Vicksburg Whig, Vicksburg, MS, October 20, 1858; Historical Data Systems, Inc., U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles; Tri-Weekly Clarion, Meridian, MS, October 19, 1868; The Clarion, Jackson, MS, June 13, 1872; The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, MS, March 13, 1878; “Letter from L. C. Wilson to Mississippi Governor John M. Stone; August 22, 1876,” Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi, mdah_807-1007-03-14)