Son of James Billingsley, a carpenter, who gave his son the best education obtainable in St. Clairville. Mother Sarah Harris Billingsley.
At the age of fifteen he was determined to begin life for himself and left home for the West, where he became a Stage driver.
He had the route from Fort Smith, Arkansas to Sherman, Texas. And later was messenger from Ft. Smith to Little Rock. He was a voter in Arkansas at the time of the vote on the question of secession, and voted against the secession ordinance. He was present at Little Rock when the United States arsenal there was surrendered to the State Government. Later he became an employee of the Ben Holliday Stage Line. As the route of travel changed to the northward, he came with the company to Kansas. From the Spring of 1861 for five years, he continued in the same service, keeping a station on the route at Point of Rock, on Bitter Creek, near the Utah line in Wyoming. After the route was abandoned in 1866 he returned to Kansas, first purchasing a farm in Nemaha County, where he lived for two years. In 1871 moved his family to Marshall County, Kansas. (Biographical history of Marshall County).
Married Sarah Elizabeth Kelsey
23 April 1863, Nebraska City, Nebraska
At the age of fifteen he was determined to begin life for himself and left home for the West, where he became a Stage driver.
He had the route from Fort Smith, Arkansas to Sherman, Texas. And later was messenger from Ft. Smith to Little Rock. He was a voter in Arkansas at the time of the vote on the question of secession, and voted against the secession ordinance. He was present at Little Rock when the United States arsenal there was surrendered to the State Government. Later he became an employee of the Ben Holliday Stage Line. As the route of travel changed to the northward, he came with the company to Kansas. From the Spring of 1861 for five years, he continued in the same service, keeping a station on the route at Point of Rock, on Bitter Creek, near the Utah line in Wyoming. After the route was abandoned in 1866 he returned to Kansas, first purchasing a farm in Nemaha County, where he lived for two years. In 1871 moved his family to Marshall County, Kansas. (Biographical history of Marshall County).
Married Sarah Elizabeth Kelsey
23 April 1863, Nebraska City, Nebraska
Son of James Billingsley, a carpenter, who gave his son the best education obtainable in St. Clairville. Mother Sarah Harris Billingsley.
At the age of fifteen he was determined to begin life for himself and left home for the West, where he became a Stage driver.
He had the route from Fort Smith, Arkansas to Sherman, Texas. And later was messenger from Ft. Smith to Little Rock. He was a voter in Arkansas at the time of the vote on the question of secession, and voted against the secession ordinance. He was present at Little Rock when the United States arsenal there was surrendered to the State Government. Later he became an employee of the Ben Holliday Stage Line. As the route of travel changed to the northward, he came with the company to Kansas. From the Spring of 1861 for five years, he continued in the same service, keeping a station on the route at Point of Rock, on Bitter Creek, near the Utah line in Wyoming. After the route was abandoned in 1866 he returned to Kansas, first purchasing a farm in Nemaha County, where he lived for two years. In 1871 moved his family to Marshall County, Kansas. (Biographical history of Marshall County).
Married Sarah Elizabeth Kelsey
23 April 1863, Nebraska City, Nebraska
At the age of fifteen he was determined to begin life for himself and left home for the West, where he became a Stage driver.
He had the route from Fort Smith, Arkansas to Sherman, Texas. And later was messenger from Ft. Smith to Little Rock. He was a voter in Arkansas at the time of the vote on the question of secession, and voted against the secession ordinance. He was present at Little Rock when the United States arsenal there was surrendered to the State Government. Later he became an employee of the Ben Holliday Stage Line. As the route of travel changed to the northward, he came with the company to Kansas. From the Spring of 1861 for five years, he continued in the same service, keeping a station on the route at Point of Rock, on Bitter Creek, near the Utah line in Wyoming. After the route was abandoned in 1866 he returned to Kansas, first purchasing a farm in Nemaha County, where he lived for two years. In 1871 moved his family to Marshall County, Kansas. (Biographical history of Marshall County).
Married Sarah Elizabeth Kelsey
23 April 1863, Nebraska City, Nebraska
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