This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Billeen, Green, Nelson, Green, Burdick, Pierce, Bowman, Ward, Stephens, Bushey, Gross Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1711.7.1.1 Message Board Post: OSCAR FRANCIS BILLEEN, born July 26, 1857 in Gothenberg, Sweden -d. in 1942. married (1) Mary Almeda Green, b. 1871 - d. April 15, 1893; married on Nov. 8, 1887. He had come to the United States in October 1867; to Fremont county in 1873 from College Springs, Iowa. Lived in section 17, Locust Grove township, Fremont county, Iowa. Son of Frederick and Nellie (Nelson) Billeen. She was the daughter of Rudolph Green. Children: (As far as known). 1. Verna Laura, born March 18, 1889 at Farragut -died Feb. 16, 1967; married (1) Francis Lester Burdick, b. 1889 - d. Oct. 23, 1931; married on Dec. 28, 1911. Son of Judson and Almyra (Pierce) Burdick. Burial Farragut. She married (2) Asa Bowman on March 10, 1964. 2. Charles Francis, born March 17, 1890 - died May 13, 1981 in Tabor; married Nellie Ward, born August 5, 1881 - died May 19, 1970; married on Feb. 8, 1911. Burial at Locust Grove. Daughter of Neuman and Alice (Stephens) Ward. O.F. BILLEEN married (2) Anne Salome Bushey, born in Ontario, Canada in 1857 - died 1939; married on April 6, 1898. Daughter of C. H. and May (Gross) Bushey; sister of Dr. Bushey. NOTE (no source cited), dated April 11, 1905.--Mrs. Bushey was buried in Locust Grove last Tuesday. She was the mother of Mrs. Oscar Billeen and of Dr. Bushey of Hamburg.