Dr. Jesse Mark Hill, who had practiced medicine in Crowell, Texas, for fifty years, died on April 23, 1955 after an automobile accident near his home. He was born on April 13, 1880 in Calhoun County, Georgia to Horace Hill and Nancy Fite Hill. He moved with his parents to Texas, where he attended public schools in Crowell. He attended the University of Tennessee in Nashville, and then completed his medical education at the Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons (now known as Emory University School of Medicine) in 1902. Dr. Hill practiced briefly in New York, San Francisco and Chicago before settling in Crowell. The past few years he had devoted primarily to his ranch interests.
Dr. Hill was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the Hardeman-Cottle-Foard-Motley Counties Medical Society, and of the Third District Medical Society. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and was president of the local school board for many years.
In 1904 he was married to Miss Edna M. Thacker of Crowell. Mrs. Hill survives, as do three children; J.M. Hill Jr. and Mrs. Helen Norman, both of Crowell, and Mrs. Frances McCombs of Las Cruces, New Mexico. Other survivors include a half sister, Mrs. Mable Burns of California, and three half-brothers, Fite Crowell and Grover Crowell, both of Crowell, and Cliff Crowell of California.
= = = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family or Dr. Hill's career.
