Earnest Buch Billings & His Second Wife Bula
EARNEST BUCK BILLINGS
b. 3 Nov. 1879 Langree TS Edwards Co
d. 13 Jan 1926 Del Rio. Verde Co. TX
m. Georgia Baker died 3 Oct 1903
m#2 Bulah Birdwell
children by Georgia Baker
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(left) George Billings & Gertrude Blanch Billings
i. Gertrude Blanch Billings
b. 29 July 1901 Pumpville TX
d. 4 March 1979 Tucson AZ
father abandoned child at Catholic
church after mother died
ii. George Leo Billings
b 2nd mother Bulah kept this child
Ernest's father was
JOHN RILEY BILLINGS
b. 5 Jan 1852 Dewitt Co TX
d. 22 May 1919 Del Rio Val Verde TX
m. 1872 Kerr Co TX Rebecca Benson
b. 10 Dec 1853 Ill.
d. 14 April 1892 Childbirth
Del Rio TX
sister Sarah Dalton
kids by Rebecca
i. Ernest Buck
ii. Wiliiam Riley
b. 15 Dec. 1841 DeWitt TX
d. 12 Feb 1905 Landtry
ValVerde TX
m. Phebe Ellen Boilley
iii. Rebecca
b. 29 June 1847 DeWitt
d. 6 Sept 1936 Duncon AZ
m. Unknown Smith
iv. Emer m. Addie Goble
v. James died at 3 months after his mother
died with complications to his birth
kids by 2nd wife Anne Gerddes 1899
i. Lewis
ii. Pauline
iii. Sidney
iv. Elsie
v. Betha
vi. Helen
vii. Margie
viii. Mamie
ix. Neal
b. Oct 29 1904
\ d. Aug 1976
John Riley's father was
JAMES BILLINGS
b. 22 Oct 1819 Dekalb Co. Tenn.
d. 31 Jan 1863 Gillespie Co TX
killed & scalped by a band of men made
up to look like Indians.
occupation - sold cattle
James was a man of integrity
and honor
m. abt 1895 Bagdad Tx Williamson Co TX
Louisa Naomi Kent
5 March 1841 Ganzals Co TX
when James was killed she remarried
Joseph Kent from England no relation
kids
i. William Riley
b. 15 Dec. 1847 Dewitt Co.
d. 12 Feb 1905 Langtry ValVerde TX
m. Phoebe Ellen Willey
ii. Ellen
b. ab. 1845
m. unknown Smith
iii. Ammon
b. 9 June 1847 Dewitt
d. 13 Oct 1907 Sabinal TX
iv. Rebecca
b. 29 June 1847 Dewitt
d . 6 Sept 1936 Duncon AZ
v. John m. Rebecca Benson
vi. Josephine
b. 1855 Dewitt
vii. Prescilla
b. 1858 Dewitt
viii. Louisa
b. 12 Jan 1862
m. unknown McDaniels
ix. Isafina
b. 1857
d. 1859
James Billing's father was
PETER BILLINGS
b. and d. in DeKalb Co Tennessee
m. unknown German gal
had 12 kids
kids I know
i. John b. Nov 16 1803 DeKalb TX
d. 1872
m. Jane Zumwalt
ii. William GIBSON
b. 1817 DeKalb TX
d. 1882 TX
m. Polly
iii. James m. Louisa Naomi Kent
iv. Rebecca b. 1831
d. 1868
m. Boseman Clifton Kent
vi. Elizbeth
m. David Boyd Kent
vii. GIBSON b. Aug 10 1817 White CO TN
d. 2 Feb 1882 Gonzales Co TX
m. Mary Polly Akorn
viii. ElsaMa b. 1822
d. 1897
m. 1 Feb 1841 GonZales Co TX
Thomas Bowen Zuwmalt