John Currie HILL

                          Sunday night, August 30th, 1863, John Hill met with a tragic death,
as follows:  He and his nephew, Robert Hill, went to a field near by the
mill site where corn, carrots and sorghum were growing.  They had
already discovered that bears had been feasting on the carrots and corn
upon former occasions, and had concluded to ambush themselves, and
thus surprise the intruders.  Five young men from Hyrum, a small town
about four miles southeast of the mill, had also noticed similar ravages
produced by the bears, and had determined upon the same plan of getting
rid of these too familiar neighbors.
       John Hill and Robert Hill arrived at the scene of action first.
Creeping around the edge of the corn patch, in which they heard sounds as
if an intruder were there, the two men were sighted by the company of
men arriving from Hyrum.  Upon discovering the two objects, made
visible by the dim moonlight, this party of men mistook them to be the
game for which they were searching, halted and fired simultaneously.
Their illusions were instantly dispelled when John Hill, who had been
pierced by five or six bullets, sprang to his feet exclaiming, "Boys You
have riddled me now" and fell a corpse to the ground.

Hill Family History p.34