Charles Hill
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1827
Baptism:
Death: Sep 1845 - Lost At Sea
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Notes
General:
Seamen Charles Hill, William S. Hutchins & John S Rand have adjacent Truro death records. all lost at sea, Sept 1845.Medical:
age 18
seaman
parents and birthplace omitted 1
Charles R Hill
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1860 - Truro, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 1865 - Truro, Massachusetts
Burial: in Pine Grove Cemetery, South Truro
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: William Hill (1812-1880) 2
Mother: Elizabeth C Paine (1818-1885) 2
Clarissa Hill
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 28 Oct 1783 - Bellingham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Amos Partridge (21 Dec 1781 - )
Marriage: 24 Nov 1819 - Bellingham, Massachusetts 3
Status:
Children:
1. Amos Partridge (1820- )
2. Asa Partridge (1823- )
3. Charles Partridge (1827-1880)
Notes
General:
d/o Aaron & Sally
m1 Asa Slocum, m 15 Apr 1810 4
David Hill
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1983
Baptism:
Death: 17 Oct 2006 - Eastham, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death: shot by police
Parents
Father: Gerard Hill (Est 1950- )
Mother: Martha (Est 1950- )
Notes
General:
Cape Codder story
Troubled Eastham man, known to police, is shot dead
By Marilyn Miller/ mmiller@cnc.com
Thursday, October 19, 2006
EASTHAM — It wasn’t David Hill’s first encounter with police, but it turned out to be his last.
The 23-year-old Eastham man fired shots at the Eastham police station on rainy, foggy Tuesday night, launching a frenzied sequence of events that left him dead a few hours later — shot by two members of a local SWAT team in the woods off Samoset Road.
It was a surreal, scary experience for residents of the neighborhood, as police combed the area on foot and set up roadblocks while tracking Hill.
“It was terrifying,” said Lou Roy, who lives at the corner of Route 6 and Locust Road, just north of the police station.
Roy said she heard shots fired at 8:18 p.m. and called Eastham police. “They told me to stay inside,” she said. “They told me I would be safe. But I had no idea what was going on — whether there was a madman out there shooting.”
Hill, who lived with his father, Gerard Hill, at 2 Sue’s Walk, was pronounced dead of his wounds at 1 a.m. Wednesday at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis. An autopsy was scheduled for the same day.
The police officers involved in the shooting, one from Truro and one from Orleans, whom police have not identified, have been placed on routine administrative leave with pay, pending an investigation by State Police detectives.
Tracking him down
Michael O’Keefe, Cape and Islands district attorney, said Hill shot at the Eastham police station and that bullets hit an oak trim on a window in the station and shattered a window in the station lobby.
Hill drove off, and authorities learned who they were looking for when his mother, Martha, called her brother, a member of another police force, and informed him that her son said he was going to take a hostage and kill himself and police. The brother called Eastham police, which assembled a tactical team to deal with the potentially deadly situation, Michael Trudeau, first assistant Barnstable district attorney, said.
Officers believed he was barricaded in his house, but at 11 p.m. the tactical team, made up of police from several towns and State Police, tracked Hill to the wooded area near the intersection of Samoset and Herring Brook roads. He was confronted by two police officers, one from Truro and one from Orleans, at about 11:43 p.m.
When he was shot, he was carrying a cocked, semi-automatic pistol with 34 rounds in it, and was wearing a bulletproof vest, Trudeau said.
A troubled past
Police were aware of the Hill’s suicidal tendencies. A SWAT team, that included Wellfleet Police Officer Jerre Austin and his bloodhound, Beau, surrounded the 2 Sue’s Walk home on July 17, after Eastham police were alerted by police in Fairfax, Va., that they were in contact with Hill by phone, and he was “threatening to put a bullet in his head.”
Virginia police got involved after Hill had allegedly made threatening phone calls to a former girlfriend who lives in that state. She had contacted her local police.
At the time, Eastham Police Sgt. Robert Schnitzer said Hill had told Virginia officers that he had guns in his home, and was going to kill himself with a Beretta gun.
Virginia police told Eastham police that Hill was watching out for them, and that they would need a SWAT team if they planned to capture him.
“I called him on his cellphone and tried to negotiate his surrender to us, but he was very hostile to my efforts,” Schnitzer wrote in the court report. “He was obviously intoxicated and cursed and yelled and swore.”
Schnitzer reported that the elder Hill was with his son, and said he could see no guns. The father, he reported, “was not cooperative to my effort to defuse the situation and take David into custody for suicidal threats,” Schnitzer said in the court report. “He advised it would be a mistake to come get David and that I would be trying to be a cowboy hero and it would cause his son’s death.”
Another officer, earlier in July, had been at the Hill house to defuse another situation, and Hill had reached for a shotgun that was behind the piano, Schnitzer reported.
“David’s behavior [and] threats of suicide were dangerous and unpredictable,” Schnitzer wrote. “The situation had the potential to turn deadly for David and for officers staged to respond. I decided that the SWAT response team would be best equipped to handle this volatile and dynamic incident. Immediate response by officers on the scene could have resulted in a suicide-by-cop situation,” he wrote.
As it turned out, when police took him into custody he was armed not with a gun, but with a knife. He was charged with assault and battery on a police officer, and his case was due to come up in court shortly.
Sarah Blackwell, who lives on Samoset Road near the Hills, learned about the shooting at her child’s bus stop Wednesday morning.
"I’d noticed a lot of traffic going down Samoset, but I didn’t know what it was all about until this morning," she said.
Blackwell said Hill had been living with his father for several years since his parents divorced and his mother moved to Maine.
“I really feel bad for his mother and sister, Leah,” she said. “David,” she said, “was a nice guy but he really wanted to push his father’s buttons.” The elder Hill, she added, “is a hardworking guy.”
Hill reportedly attended Nauset Regional High School, but did not graduate.
In the early 1980s, a mentally ill young man in Eastham challenged SWAT team members to kill him while waving what turned out to be a fake machine gun at them. He was taken into custody without shots being fired, although officers involved then said the result could have been very different, since they had no way of knowing whether the gun was real.
-----------------------------------------
(Published: October 25, 2006)
Fatal Junction
By DOUG FRASER
STAFF WRITER
EASTHAM - The bouquets of flowers cling to the creosote-soaked telephone pole at Samoset and Herring Brook roads. Message cards are filled with dashed hope of a different fate for David Gerard Hill, who was shot and killed by police manning a roadblock at the intersection a week ago: ''David, we know what you're really like'' and ''I'll always love you and I'll never forget you.''
Last Tuesday, Hill, 23, armed himself with a .40-caliber handgun and put on a bulletproof vest. He allegedly fired at least four shots at the Eastham police station, breaking a window. According to Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe, Hill told his mother over his cell phone later that night he wanted to take a hostage, then kill some police and himself.
Police sources told the Times yesterday that Hill crawled on his hands and knees past police stationed in the woods around his Sue's Walk home, then crept two-tenths of a mile down to the roadblock at Herring Brook and Samoset roads. They said Hill got fairly close to the two officers at the roadblock before he was discovered.
Witnesses living nearby report hearing an initial burst of between four and seven shots, then a pause followed by a more deliberate-sounding two or three shots.
''From all accounts, there was no exchange of gunfire,'' E. James Veara, the attorney hired to represent the Hill family, said yesterday.
Police sources also said Hill did not fire his gun.
Multiple sources said Hill was hit two or three times with bullets from a police-issued assault rifle, including a bullet to the back of the head and at least one, maybe two bullets in his left arm. Veara said an autopsy by the state medical examiners office has been completed and the body turned over to the family. Although he had not seen the autopsy reports, Veara confirmed that Hill had been hit by a bullet in the back of the head and at least once in the arm.
Veara said Hill had purchased his handgun legally, but did not have a Massachusetts permit to own or carry the weapon.
O'Keefe said yesterday that investigators were still gathering information from the police departments that were involved in the Hill shooting. He said his goal was to release a report on the incident quickly, but that it wouldn't be completed until at least next week. O'Keefe said he would have no comment on the specifics of the shooting until the report was released.
''I hope that what we know thus far will allow us to simply issue a written report,'' O'Keefe said. ''But if other things were to develop that suggest some other course of action, that is available.''
Veara said his clients were waiting for O'Keefe's report before deciding whether they would pursue any legal action. ''The crux of it are the circumstances preceding the use of deadly force,'' he said. ''We don't know what either officer said, or any of the forensic or ballistic information.''
Anonymous police sources described a chaotic scene the evening of the shooting in which police stationed around the Hill home did not know exactly where David Hill was but were aware that he had told his mother by cell phone that he could see them. They said police from as many as six different departments and the state police had responded to Eastham's call for mutual aid. But communication problems right from the start plagued the operation.
The primary source of the problem appeared to be officers in the woods and along the roads only had the stations of their neighboring towns programmed into their portable scanners. That meant officers only could communicate with those towns unless directed to tune their scanners to a public safety channel dedicated to that particular operation.
Truro Police Chief John Thomas said yesterday that the two officers his department sent to Eastham tuned into the Eastham police channel.
Police chiefs contacted by the Times yesterday would not comment on the specifics of the Hill case, but they agreed that communication problems are common during joint operations.
''In my 32 years, the main problem is communication at the beginning,'' Thomas said. Thomas said communication gets complicated as more officers from several towns and agencies arrive at a crime scene.
The Cape Cod Regional Law Enforcement Council SWAT team was among the last to arrive on scene at nearly 11 p.m.
Dennis Police Chief Michael Whalen, who was in charge of the SWAT team that night, said he could not talk about the incident until after the DA's report was released.
Doug Fraser can be reached at dfraser@capecodonline.com.
[ In a makeshift memorial, flowers and a snapshot of David Hill grace a pine tree at Samoset and Herring Brook roads in Eastham. Hill was killed in an encounter with police at the intersection last Tuesday night.
(Staff photo by Steve Heaslip) ]
Dorothy May Hill
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 27 Jan 1922
Baptism:
Death: Feb 1984 - Rumford, Rhode Island
Burial: in National Cemetery, Bourne, Massachusetts
Cause of Death:
Events
• Soc Sec Num, 035-14-2215 in Rhode Island
Spouses and Children
1. *Walter Romeo Gervais (1922 - 17 Jun 2009)
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Robin May Gervais (1957- )
2. Nancy Gervais (Est 1955- )
Edward Hill
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1895
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Frances Thomas (Est 1895 - )
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Katherine R Hill (1925-2006)
Edward W Hill
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1849 - Truro, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 1850 - Truro, Massachusetts
Burial: in Pine Grove Cemetery, South Truro
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: William Hill (1812-1880) 2
Mother: Elizabeth C Paine (1818-1885) 2
Edwin Ilmari Hill
Sex: M
AKA: Taivo Ilmari Hill 6
Individual Information
Birth: 8 Apr 1909 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 26 Apr 1971
Burial: in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet
Cause of Death:
Events
• Military, Massachusetts, Sgt 101 Engineers, Waorld War II
Parents
Father: Jacob Hill (1881-1918) 7 8
Mother: Edla Maria Kauranen (1884-1952) 7 8 9
Eleanor Duhamel Hill
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Apr 1820 - Cambridge, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 14 Jan 1892 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
Burial: in Cemetery #2, Provincetown
Cause of Death: exposure
Spouses and Children
1. *Jabez W Atwood (12 Nov 1808 - 18 Jun 1890) 10
Marriage: 15 Dec 1861 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
Status:
Notes
Medical:
age 71-9
Elisha Hill
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 29 Jan 1816 - Truro, Massachusetts 11
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: John Hill (1784-1860) 12
Mother: Salome (1781-1849)
Elizabeth Hill
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 27 Dec 1808 - Truro, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 17 Feb 1809 - Truro, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: John Hill (1784-1860) 12
Mother: Salome (1781-1849)
Elizabeth Ellen Hill
Sex: F
AKA: Eliza E Hill
Individual Information
Birth: 12 Feb 1855 - Truro, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 4 Mar 1921 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 15
Burial: in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet
Cause of Death: lung carcinoma 15
Spouses and Children
1. *David Cole Rich (29 Jul 1847 - 24 Aug 1921) 14 16
Marriage: 3 Mar 1880 - Truro, Massachusetts 17
Status:
Children:
1. Nina L Rich (1883- ) 18
2. William Atwood Rich (1886- ) 19
3. Charles Warren Rich (1889- ) 20
Notes
Medical:
age 66-0-20
Eliza Ellen Rich
Elizabeth Smith Hill
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 16 Jan 1810 - Truro, Massachusetts 21
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: John Hill (1784-1860) 12
Mother: Salome (1781-1849)
Spouses and Children
1. *Adam Mileson Dyer (6 Apr 1789 - 9 May 1855) 22
Marriage: 1 Jan 1827 - Truro, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Sarah Snow Dyer (1828- ) 23
2. Saloma Ann Dyer (1836-1839) 23
3. Mehitable King Dyer (1838- ) 23
4. John Henry Dyer (1841- ) 23
5. Joseph Adam Dyer (1843- ) 23
Notes
General:
Age 45, Provincetown, in 1855 Census
Ephraim W Hill
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1856 - Truro, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 1938
Burial: in Pine Grove Cemetery, South Truro
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: William Hill (1812-1880) 2
Mother: Elizabeth C Paine (1818-1885) 2
George A. Hill
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1875 - (Richmond, Maine)
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• residence, 1907 in Richmond, Maine
Spouses and Children
1. *Lizzie Etta Tallman (1 Feb 1878 - 1920)
Marriage: 14 May 1907 - (Richmond, Maine) 25
Status:
Gerard Hill
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1950
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Martha (Est 1950 - )
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. David Hill (1983-2006)
Notes
General:
$100K claim filed against Eastham
By Doug Fraser
dfraser@capecodonline.com
July 10, 2008 6:00 AM
EASTHAM — Gerard Hill, whose 23-year-old son was shot to death by the police two years ago, has filed a claim against the town of Eastham for being taken into protective custody by the police in July 2006.
He is asking for $100,000, the maximum that can be collected against a town under state law, because he claims he was illegally detained.
State law requires that a claim be filed to give towns six months to investigate the incident. The plaintiff can then sue in court if the response is not satisfactory.
Gerard Hill's son, David, was killed by Orleans police Officer Anthony Manfredi on Oct. 17, 2006, after firing on the Eastham police station and provoking a manhunt.
The Cape and Island's District Attorney's Office ruled it a justifiable homicide.
Gerard Hill filed the claim relating to a previous incident involving his son on July 17, 2006. That night, police responded to a call from Fairfax County, Va., police that David Hill was making threatening phone calls from his father's Samoset Road house, trying to locate an ex-girlfriend in Norfolk, Va. He also claimed he had a gun and would kill himself, police said.
Members of the Cape Cod Regional Law Enforcement Council SWAT Team stormed the house and overwhelmed the younger Hill. He was arrested on a number of charges, including assault and battery on a police officer.
Earlier that night, Gerard Hill had approached police outside his house, asking that his son be taken to a hospital for evaluation. In his report of that night, Eastham police Sgt. Robert Schnitzer said he smelled the odor of alcohol on the elder Hill's breath.
In an interview with the Times this week, Gerard Hill said he'd had one drink and had told Eastham Police Chief Richard Hedlund he had been drinking vodka. He was talking to Hedlund on the porch when, without warning, Schnitzer put his hands behind his back and handcuffed him, he said. Hill said he was bewildered, but cooperative.
Schnitzer said in his report that Gerard Hill was taken into protective custody and driven to the Orleans police station for a Breathalyzer test.
It showed a reading of .01 percent, below the .08 level that is used to determine whether a driver is too intoxicated to drive, according to his report. The elder Hill was subsequently released.
Ironically, it was Orleans officer Manfredi who took Gerard Hill to the Orleans station..
Gerard Hill's attorney, Francis J. DiMento, Jr., said yesterday that police exceeded the limits of the protective custody statute. Since Hill was in his own home, they should have only taken him away if he was deemed to be a danger to himself or a risk to someone else, DiMento said.
"Amid the confusion of the day's events, it doesn't make sense to take him into protective custody," said DiMento. "To place someone in handcuffs and detain him is obviously illegal under those circumstances."
Police Chief Hedlund said he had received the claim filed by DiMento.
Hannah Catherine Hill
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 26 Jul 1847 - Truro, Massachusetts 26
Baptism:
Death: 19 Jun 1930 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 27
Burial: in Pine Grove Cemetery, South Truro
Cause of Death: cerebral hemorrhage
Parents
Father: William Hill (1812-1880) 2
Mother: Elizabeth C Paine (1818-1885) 2
Spouses and Children
1. *Freeman A Lewis (1840 - 1911) 2
Marriage: 16 Nov 1869 - Truro, Massachusetts 28
Status:
Notes
Medical:
age 82-11-22 27
Hannah Merchant Hill
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 29 Apr 1812 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 29
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Andrew Hill (1779-1815) 30
Mother: Mehetable King (1783- ) 31
Hannah Merchant Hill
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 22 Sep 1807 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 29
Baptism:
Death: 6 Mar 1811 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 29
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Andrew Hill (1779-1815) 30
Mother: Mehetable King (1783- ) 31
Hannah Small Hill
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 8 Sep 1822 - Truro, Massachusetts 32
Baptism:
Death: 20 Jul 1840 - Truro, Massachusetts 33 34
Burial: in Truro Congregational cemetery
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: John Hill (1784-1860) 12
Mother: Salome (1781-1849)
Spouses and Children
1. *Peter Clark (Est 1818 - )
Marriage:
Status: apparent broken engagement