For the full memoirs see http://hhileman.home.netcom.com/mike2.htm
Here is an excerpt from the memoirs:

"Grandfather Hileman was along the Delaware River with General Washington. My father [Michael] well remembered going with provisions for father and some of the neighbor friends with his yoke of young oxen. The journey required two days. The condition of his father with cold and hunger was pitiful, as were all the others. His return home from these expeditions was always an occasion of great interest to the neighborhood for miles around.

Upon one of these occasions Father had a most trying time. It was while the troopers were starving that he made his way to headquarters with many good things to eat and underclothing for Grandfather. The sight of the oxen was more than the troopers could stand, so they immediately prepared to get a hold of them to have a good feast in short order. Father was in a pitiful state with fright and anxiety, and the officers of the regiment quickly came to his rescue, saving the oxen. The supply of food and clothing was taken from Father before the officers could prevent it. All of this trouble was hard enough for the boy, but when he was gently and kindly told by some of the neighbor men, whom he saw later, that Grandfather was one of the few killed at the Battle of Trenton, his grief and worry was almost more than he could stand. His home going before had always been intended as so much joy in knowing that he had succeeded in taking a little of the comforts of home to the cold and hungry Patriots who were so loyally supporting their brave and noble commander, George Washington.

It was sometime later when Grandfather's brothers moved to Hollidaysburg, a prosperous little village in Huntingdon County, several toilsome days journey to the northwest, situated close beside the beautiful Juniata River. Father went with them to make a home for himself in this new country. His uncles took land from the state. He went to work at his trade in Frankstown. Most of his work was in the house building and furniture making. He received about one dollar per day for his work, but he soon succeeded in doing more contract work than days work. His uncles got their land for a nominal price. At this time George Washington was guiding the affairs of the young nation as its President.

About six miles from Hollidaysburg there was a Scottish settlement and it was here that Grandfather Milligan's farm was situated. In the course of the affairs Father became acquainted with one of the belles of the neighborhood. Polly was her name, as she was popularly known, her real name being Mary. The courtship soon ended in a very happy wedding.

Grandmother Milligan had been dead for many years so Grandfather desired that the newly wedded pair should remain on the farm, and he would make his home with them as long as he lived. With this understanding he deeded them the farm. The house was a three-room log house which Grandfather built shortly after the close of the revolution. He was one of the earliest settlers in Huntingdon County.
So after Father and Mother were married, Father continued at the carpentry work using the tenants house for his carpentry shop. In the course of time he also engaged young men as apprentices to help him, as he had plenty of work to make this necessary. The neighborhood supplied him with plenty of work such as trunks, bureaus, bedsteads, four-leaf tables, chairs to be made.

The first saw mill in the country was nearly sixty miles distant, which was reached with six-horse teams. Later a sawmill was built on Spruce Creek much nearer to us, and still later, one was built only a mile and a half from our home. The forest abounded in white pine, yellow poplar, shell black hickory and black mollen. The required sizes were all sawed for the various uses they were to be put to. Most of the country houses were built of hewn logs for many years after Father and Mother were married, or until about 1820.

Father employed from four to six boys and men the year round in his shop. During the winter season they were kept busy at making up stock and furniture. He paid the journeymen fifty cents with board per day. The foreman received seventy-five cents per day and board. He could go out with some of the men and have the work done as well with Father to supervise the work. The wages paid were considered good, at one dollar per day, and the workers to find their own board.

Mother being a farmer's daughter, she fulfilled the greatest expectations of Father in the management of the farm - as this he left for her to do. Wheat, and oats, and rye, were the chief crops raised. The grain was shipped in arks down the Juniata River to Harrisburg in Lewistown. Father always gave Mother full credit for running the farm better than he could have done it himself."

"Michael's will. Found on the Jo Daviess Co. Web Page 7/19/00 "Will Book B, 1863 - 1875"
HILEMAN, Michael Sr., of Wards Grove, dated May 24, 1869, proved January 23, 1872.
To my son Michael HILEMAN of Warren: the amount of indebtedness due me from my son John HILEMAN of Wards Grove. Also the money loaned to Mrs. Sarah HILEMAN, the wife of John HILEMAN. Also 3 sans?, one set bench tools, 3 bead plains, 1 steel square, 1 chest and contents, 1 piece of cloth cost $25.00 except what I may use for myself, one bed and bedding, 1 feather bed.
Witnesses: Edward L. BEDFORD, Andrew B. VANSICKLE (Page 362)"

1850  Burnside Twp., Clearfield Co., PA
Michael Heileman 70 M Farmer  $1500  PA
Mary Heileman 60 F  PA
John Heileman 27 M Farmer  PA
Mary Jane Feazer 15 F
Harrison Thompson 9 M
 
1860 Wards Grove Twp., Jo Daviess Co., Illinois
John Hileman  40 M Farmer $400 Penn
Sarah (Oaks) 26 F  Maine
Sarah J.  9 F  Penn
Mary  7 F  Penn
Alfred 4 M Illinois
Stephen Oaks 66 carpenter  Maine

Michael Hileman  80 M  $2100  #300  Penn
Mary (Milligan)  75 F  Penn
Mary J.  20  granddaughter, domestic help  Penn
Sarah J. 9 granddaughter  Penn (probably the same person as John's daughter above.)
 

1870 Wards Grove Twp., Jo Daviess Co., Illinois
Heileman, John   50, M Farmer  $5000  $1400  Penn
 Sarah  35 F keeps house  Maine
 Mary  16 F works at home Penn
 George 14 M works on farm Illinois
 Minnie 6 F  Illinois
 Michael 103 M  Penn

"Mother had studied medicine with Dr. Rolf of Hollidaysburg, both before and after her marriage so she was also a doctor besides her manifold duties of the home. In her practice of medicine she attended patients both far and near, all of the her calls being made by horseback. There was no such thing as a buggy in the whole of Huntingdon County at that time.

Those who could afford a Dearborn wagon were considered well off indeed. This vehicle was a four wheeled carriage, without springs, a straight board seat which rested on a knee consisting of tough strips of hickory or elm, fastened to the bottom at each end of the box, and so bent as to be attached to the seat in a way to give it a strong, springy support. This vehicle was the most comfortable means of
riding other than horseback.

Mother's patients lived as far as twenty miles distance from home, but she preferred to keep within range of ten or twelve miles of Hollidaysburg. Doctors fees at that time were very reasonable. Mother's being one dollar for services with medicine, where the patient lived within a distance of ten miles. Quinine, Calomel and Jalap were the chief medicines used, but Mother avoided the use of Calomel as much as possible and used Herbs in its stead. Mustard plasters were used very extensively. Bean oil was used a great deal especially in the treatment of putrid sore throat, or diphtheria, as known today. It was a specific for this disease, and where mortification had not started, it was almost a sure cure for this terrible disease.

One case I shall always remember Mother telling of - she was very urgently summoned to farmer Dunkleberg's, where Doctor Johnson desired to hold consultation over the case of the father of the family, who was suffering intense agony with an inflammation of the bowels, or what most likely would be pronounced appendicitis today. Mother was allowed to proceed with her treatments, which consisted of an application of a poultice of sliced bread, covered with charcoal, hops, and yeast, soaked in whiskey. This was promptly applied and within two hours the poultices were completely dried by the heat of the inflammation. In ordinary cases it would require about six hours to cause the same condition of the poultice. Mr. Dunkleberg's life was saved. Dr. Johnson said, "Mrs. Hileman, you saved his life. Good God you're a woman and I have studied in the best medical colleges in the country! But you have saved this man with full credit to yourself. Here is five dollars. Had I had twenty-five dollars I would as freely give it. It is a slight material reward for what you have done!" It is needless to say that Mother's heart swelled with joy in the realization that she had saved the man's life, and she was also very happy to get the material reward."

"In 1835 the country was organized into school districts. It was about this time that we left the old homestead and moved to the northwest, about forty miles, to Clearfield County and the forest region beside the Susquehanna River, where father had bought four hundred acres of this timberland of a man who gotten it of the State for a nominal price. Father paid only four hundred dollars for the whole tract. There was only four acres which was cleared; this surrounded the house."

Still later Michael and Mary moved to Jo Daviess County, Illinois to be near some of their children who had moved there about 1852. In their old age they lived with son John in Warren Township, Jo Daviess County.