Robert John Hilton, #7

Robert John Hilton was born in Sparta, MI. on Jan, 30, 1890. He married Frances A. Syben in Malta, Montana in 1917. They had 3 children that lived, Lyle Maurice, Robert John, and Mary Frances. Apparently twins were born and died shortly there after in Malta, and another infant was born in Tacoma, WA in 1929 and is buried in Kooskia, Idaho, where the family lived as Robert worked as a prison guard in that area. This 7th generation Hilton, the fourth named Robert John Hilton, had an interesting life. Frances had homesteaded in Montana and they farmed there; they moved to Carrot Creek between Edmonton and Jasper, Alberta in the early 1920's. He was an excellent horseman and was responsible for getting horses for the railroad building efforts in that area. Later, in that decade the family moved to Tacoma, WA. Where he got a job at the Federal Penitentiary on McNeil Island in Oct. 1929, the day before the stock market crash. He was a guard in Idaho in the early 1940's, and worked in Dutch Harbor in Alaska during WWII. He worked at a military supply depot in Georgia in the late 1940's.