Billings Family History & Genealogy

My mom was still in love with her second husband, Warren Lee Lewis, after she had married her third, Edward Hodge Pegram. It turns out that she had a lieason with Warren Lewis and I was the product. Having no DNA tests back in 1949, she didn't know my paternity. I was told my dad was dead, but after I found the father listed on my birth certificate, Ed Pegram, in 1979, I assumed he was my father. I wouldn't learn the truth until October 2015, at 65 years old. I learned through the internet from my half-sister, Susan Lewis King. Turns out we went to junior and senior high school in Jacksonville, FL, and we didn't know of our kinship. I have four half-siblings in all, two boys, two girls. It was such a taboo at the time, my mom, and grandparents hid it from me my entire life. I never got to meet my real dad, but I knew Ed Pegram 14 months before his death. My mom was questioned about it before her death, but she just said "it's possible." I don't hate my mom for this. In the end of her life she gave me a great gift of a new family to explore. My entire genealogy is wrong on my paternal side. It will need to be corrected.

Violet (Hayes) Billings of Oakleigh Australia was born on April 13, 1891 in Burwood, VIC, and died at age 79 years old on February 1, 1971.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Marie Billings.

Actor. He will be best remembered for his portrayal of President Abraham Lincoln on stage, at live appearances, and in films of the 1920s. He was born one of eleven children (he also had two brothers and eight sisters) as George Arthur Billings to Henry Orville Billings and his wife Amanda Melvina Warr Billings in Preston, Minnesota, on November 22, 1870. He was educated locally, lived in Preston, Minnesota, until the age of eight and then moved with his parents to the west where his father worked as a wagon repairman. He then decided to serve his country and enlisted in Devil's Lake, North Dakota, and was mustered in San Francisco, California, to serve with the US Volunteers, Thirty-Fourth Infantry Artificer, during the Spanish-American War, in 1899. He then moved to Tacoma, Washington, and lived here from 1907 to 1908. He worked for a time in the building and loan business while living in that city. He then served his country once again with the rank of Private First Class (or PFC) in the United States Army during World War I. During this time, he had lived in Los Angeles, California, and eventually moved back to Tacoma, Washington, to live with his brother Orville in 1919, before moving back to Los Angeles, California, in about 1921, where he pursued a film career. He married Ethel R. Kernan in Los Angeles, California, on June 27, 1921, but the couple had no children. He made his film debut as 'President Abraham Lincoln' in "The Dramatic Life Of Abraham Lincoln" in 1924. The biography drama focuses on President Abraham Lincoln's presidency, his life during the Civil War, and events leading up to his assassination by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. The film which was directed by Phil Rosen and written by Frances Marion also starred Ruth Clifford as 'Ann Rutledge,' Danny Hoy as 'Lincoln as a boy,' and William F. Moran as 'John Wilkes Booth.' He was cast as 'President Abraham Lincoln' due to his actual close likeness of the late president. He never had any actual acting experience before he was cast in the film. Besides, "The Dramatic Life Of Abraham Lincoln" (1934), his other film credits include, "Barbara Frietchie" (1924), "The Man Without A Country" (1925), "Hands Up!" (1926), "The Greater Glory" (1926), and "Lincoln" (1929). He also toured and appeared on stage in the mid-western United States playing 'President Abraham Lincoln' in a two-man play with a young actor named Henry Fonda in 1927. The play was very successful at first but Henry Fonda later quit due to his Billings prodigious drinking. He and his wife also lived in Columbus, Ohio, in 1925, and in Jefferson, Ohio, in 1930, but later returned to Los Angeles, California. He continued to portray President Abraham Lincoln until his death. He passed away at the National Military Home in Sawtelle, California, on April 15, 1934, at the age of 63, from a lung abscess relating to pneumonia and emphysema. He was buried in the Los Angeles National Cemetery in Sawtelle, California. He ironically passed away on the same day of the 59th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination. His wife Ethel survived him passing away on April 20, 1964, at the age of 73.

Robert H Billings of West Des Moines, Polk County, IA was born on February 6, 1956, and died at age 43 years old on February 10, 1999.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Daniel Billings .

Betty Billings is the mother of Clarence Junior Lovelace. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Betty Billings.

Edward Billings was born on March 19, 1980. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Edward Billings.

My mother was a great mother.He was kind and considerate.She was an awesome grandmother and had many people that loved and respected her.

Jimmy S Billings was born in 1951 at Mason City, Iowa. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Jimmy S Billings.

Carl W Billings of Warner Robins, Houston County, GA was born on August 13, 1915, and died at age 79 years old on July 7, 1995.

Sidney Clayton Billings was born on June 15, 1953 in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon United States, and died at age 28 years old on October 22, 1981. Sidney Billings was buried at Willamette National Cemetery Section C Site 2007 11800 Se Mt. Scott Boulevard, in Portland. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Sidney Clayton Billings.

Joanna Billings was born to Cherry Lynn Houdek and Daniel Billings. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joanna Billings.

Mark Billings was born in 1955 at Mason City, Iowa to Glenn Dale Billings and Virginia Mae Wiuff Billings, and has siblings Jimmy S Billings, Larry Gene Billings, and Connie Jo Billings Cadden. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Mark Billings.

Susie Ethel Morris Billings was born in 1904, and died at age 63 years old in 1967 at Mason City, Iowa. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Susie Ethel Morris Billings.

John E Billings of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, NC was born on July 12, 1922, and died at age 82 years old on October 18, 2004.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Donna Billings.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Marianne Chesney Billings.

Joseph Billings Jr. was born on May 5, 1795. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joseph Billings, Jr..

Eugene M Billings of Rancho Cucamonga, San Bernardino County, CA was born on September 26, 1919, and died at age 73 years old on September 7, 1993.