Huldah Jackson Hill was born in Anson County, North Carolina on February 7, 1764. In 1780 in spite of her parents' disapproval, she married John Hill, a recent arrival from Halifax County, North Carolina. After their marriage, John Hill escorted her to Halifax, an area that was comparatively safer from invading British troops. She resided for a time. Her husband then returned to Anson County, where he was drafted as a private in her brother Jonathan Jackson's Anson County Militia Regiment. In 1781 when her two brothers and her husband all came back wounded from the Battle of Beatti's Bridge, she helped nurse them back to health. John and Huldah Hill would have at least eleven children together before his death in August 1817.

Huldah Hill never remarried and in 1838 she filled a pension claim seeking compensation for her husband's military service during the American Revolution. Her pension claim initially was rejected because the U.S. Pension Office did not believe Huldah had definitive documentary proof of her husband's service, as John Hill was too common of a name. Huldah Hill never saw her claim succeed before she died in Anson County on August 28, 1840. Eventually in 1845 John and Huldah Hill's children finally succeeded in filing a claim and received $80 per year from 1831 to 1840 in observance of the two years their father served as a private during the Revolutionary War.