From information supplied by Clark Travis, son of Lisle Travis:
Ann Donnelly Hillman was born in New Jersey--her father of German and Irish descent. She grew up in Preble County Ohio. Family moved to Des Moines County, Iowa (Decatur). Moved to Madison County in 1869.
Daughter Mary Elizabeth was born in 1844 in Decatur. She married oldest son of Martin Beatty Travis I, Sylvester Newton
Other information we had stated Ann was born in Pennsylvania--Clark's information says New Jersey, so records were changed to reflect that information (NY).
IGI shows birth record in Pennsylvania
OBITUARY
Winterset Madisonian – December 22, 1897
Obituary.
Died, at the residence of her son-in-law, S. N. Travis, in Peru, Iowa, Mrs. Ann M. Hillman, on November 14, 1897, aged 82 years, 10 months and 20 days; she was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, on December 25, 1814. At the age of sixteen years she removed to Dayton, Ohio; married to Edmund Hillman, at Camden, Preble county, Ohio, November 15, 1838; to this union were born five children, three of whom are still living, John D., of Lorimor, Z. T., of Murray, and Mrs. Mary Travis, of Peru.
Father and Mother Hillman left Camden, Ohio, in November 1840, for the far western territory of Iowa, coming by boat to St. Louis, Missouri, where they remained during the winter, coming to Burlington, Iowa, in April 1841; removed from there to Danville, Iowa, where they resided until 1865, then removed to Salem, Henry county, Iowa, living there until November 1869, removing in that month to Peru, Madison county, Iowa where Father Hillman died March 17, 1880.
Mother Hillman had been an invalid since May 5, 1891, caused by a fall, never being able to walk afterwards. She was raised in the Lutheran faith, and united with the Christian church twenty years ago. There are twelve grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Her residence in Iowa covered a period of over fifty-six years, five years of the time while Iowa was a territory.
Note: Burial was made in the Peru cemetery.
Stome in Larimor cemetary but no date.
Listed as Clarissa in 1850 and 1860 census.