William R. Hukill
William R. Hukill, farmer, postmaster, and station agent, is a son of Noah Hukill, who was born in Ohio County, West Virginia, November 24, 1805, and is a son of Rachel and Latitia (Parr) Hukill. Richard Hukill, was a native of Maryland, started for the west when a boy, and stopped on the Ohio River in West Virginia. They came to this county in 1814, and settled in this township on a farm, now owned by John Mallow, purchasing a tract containing six or seven hundred acres, of Peter Harper; but discovering afterwards that their title was not good, left the land and came to the farm, now owned by A. Ware, where they remained till 1831, then removed to the farm now in possession of our subject. He died August 3, 1834; his wife in the same year. Both were members of the German Baptist Church, and died in that faith. Noah Hukill was married March 17, 1831, to Susan, daughter of Edward Smith, formerly of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and who emigrated from there in about the same year that witnessed the departure of the Hukills. The marriage was blessed by five children, those living being: Margaret, now Mrs. Dickson, living in Missouri, and our subject. She (Mrs. Noah H.,) was a member of the German Baptist Church, a good woman, and died March 28, 1877. He is still living, and is the oldest living male settler in the locality, being seventy-six years of age.
Our subject was born August 2, 1834, on his present farm where he has resided all his life, devoting himself to farming. In his youth, he attended a district school and obtained an ordinary education. He was married January 7, 1858, to Mary, daughter of Joseph Kelso, now living in Ross County. She bore him three children: Julia A., Elmer Buell, and Flora A., all living. Julia is the wife of N. J. Dahl, residing near Washington. He has been a cripple since childhood, hence could not participate actively during the late war, but assisted at home whenever he could. In the fall of 1860, he was elected justice of the peace, and has held that office ever since, holding commissions from the following governors: William Dennison, David Tod, J. D. Cox, R. B. Hayes, Edward F. Noyes, William Allen, and Richard M. Bishop; has also been township treasurer. He is postmaster at Convenience, having received his commission in 1878; has also been station agent at Convenience, for the D. & S. E. Railroad, since October 26, 1878. He and his wife are members of the Camp Grove Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a strict temperance man, and a Democrat politically.
He owns two hundred and three acres of land, on the Chillicothe pike, four and one-half miles from Washington, on which Convenience Station is located.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County