Vera, Betty, and Sue...and anyone else I don't know about. Thank you for this piece of information. My dad (James Henry Reeves b08-31-1937 in Stella Arkansas) was looking for his grandmother's maiden name. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Betty McCollum Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 5:02 PM To: Vera Reeves; [email protected] Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] Billings Oh, Vera! I think you've solved the mystery! Thank you, thank you! Betty Mc ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vera Reeves" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 6:27 PM Subject: [ARIZARD] Billings > Check this out on Find A Grave - Reeves Cemetery, Izard County. > Shows her maiden as Davis. > Note no g on Billins > There is a double gravestone. > > Birth: Mar., 1867 > Elizabeth > Fulton County > Arkansas, USA > Death: Jan. 6, 1957 > Crowder > Pittsburg County > Oklahoma, USA > > Joanna B Davis was born in Fulton County, Arkansas in 1867. She married > Elisha O Billins in 1883 and the couple were the parents of seven > children, > two sons, James Pleasant and Mark and four daughters, Melvina, who married > Lincoln John Moser, Minnie, Lydia Caldonia, who married Tom Lawson, > Vestina > Ollie, who married Dewey Reeves and an infant that did not survive. > > Joanna died January 6, 1957 in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma where her son > James Pleasant and daughter Lydia Caldonia lived. Her service was held on > January 9, 1957 at the Reeves Church near Gid, with burial following in > Reeves Cemetery. Joanna lived her entire life in Arkansas, with 56 of > those > years being in Izard County. > > Joanna is the sister of my Great Grandmother Lou Vici Davis Carpenter. > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Betty McCollum > Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 4:32 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ARIZARD] Billings > > Elisha Billings was b. in 1857 > in Mo., and in 1870 he was living in Fulton Co. with his parents, James M. > and Sarah Organ Billings. Elisha md. a woman named Joanna (maiden name > unknown), who was born in 1869. Can someone tell me Joanna's maiden name? > Thanks. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message