Description
Adam Hill: 79th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Company F, Private. Additional service: 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, Company F. Died March 10, 1919 at Bells, Texas.
✦ Invalid Pension: #1,058,317, Certificate #1,027,165
✦ Widow Pension: #1,139,606, Certificate #879,179
(Researcher note: Adam Hill enlisted at Topeka, Kansas on August 16, 1862, and was mustered as a Private into the 79th USCT Infantry, Company F.
On November 3, 1866, John T. Murdock of Platte County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #25 for enlisted slave Adam Hill and swore an oath of allegiance before Platte County Circuit Court Clerk George W. Belt.
Murdock claimed he had acquired title by “…the mother of said Adam Hill was the property of claimant and Adam Hill, the slave for whom compensation is claimed, was born the property of John T. Murdock, claimant.”
As of July 1, 2026, Civil War U. S. C. T. Pension Record case files are not currently available on the Internet and would need to be ordered from the National Archives, https://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/pre-ww-1-records.)Date(s) of Creation
9/5/1891