1498 WFCHS

Scope and Content: This collection contains information about the Billings family. Included is a Confederate States of America (CSA) pension application for E.S. Billings, Thomas Billings’ family group sheet covering 1481 to 1863, a biographical sketch of Edgar Josiah Hailey, and a few letters and photographs. Mrs. Lu Neal Hailey compiled this material in 1998.

(1 box) Last updated 01/09.

Biographical/Historical: E.S. Billings was born in Mt. Jackson, VA in 1846. His family had moved to Virginia from Connecticut in 1844. He served in VA 11^th Cavalry, Company I. His entire family moved to Texas in 1870. He married Sarah Harding Brown in Texas. E.S. Billings died on November 21, 1926 in Texas.

Cite As: Billings Family Papers, 1498 WFCHS, Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, VA, USA.

Organization:

Box 1

E.S. Billings—Pension application, CSA, 13 leaves, typescript (photocopy)
History of Laurel Brigade, annotated; 11 leaves, printed with notes (photocopy)

Silas Billings and Family, 10 items, manuscript/printing (photocopy)

Thomas Billing(s) family group sheets, covers 1481-1863; 16 leaves, manuscript on printed forms (photocopy)

Edgar Josiah Hailey—biographical sketch, 1 leaf, typescript

Letters—Henry Coy Billings to his brother O.C. Billings, Jan. 28, 1874, 1 leaf
Lynn Villenueve to Bob Billings, Feb. 26, 1992, regarding Billings family, 3 leaves

Photographs (photocopy) from album of William Moreland Billings, 36 leaves