Elijah Randolph Billingsley
Sometimes you learn some things about your ancestors that you did not think you would ever know about. That is the case with this particular family. There was very little information that I started with and have progressed to a certain extent but have not gotten very far. So this page is still a work in progress.
While my direct line is interesting My great Grandmother's first cousin on another branch of this tree is who I am highlighting here today. Only because, it is in quite the contrast from what the rest of the family was like back then. Or.. at least as far as I am aware.
While my direct line is interesting My great Grandmother's first cousin on another branch of this tree is who I am highlighting here today. Only because, it is in quite the contrast from what the rest of the family was like back then. Or.. at least as far as I am aware.
Elijah Randolph Billingsley
Elijah Randolph Billingsley was born 20 November 1806 in Knoxville Tennessee and grew up in
Missouri and Gibson County, Tennessee. In 1828 he married Emeline Northcott, and in about 1835 he moved his family to Pontotoc County, Mississippi, where he became a judge. In 1845 he joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, moving with his family to Mt. Pisgah, a way station on the Mormon Trail, continuing on to Salt Lake City in 1850. From 1852-1865 he lived in Provo, where he was an alderman and attorney. He married Mary DeGraw in 1857. He and his family were among the original settlers of St. Joseph in the Muddy Mission (later Nevada), where he served in county leadership. When that mission was abandoned, he and his family became founding members of the United Order in Orderville, where he also served as patriarch. They lived as Mormons with the Latter Day Saints. He and Emeline had 11 children, and he and Mary had 9. Elijah died 28 September 1888. Read more in the document below: IN order to learn more about Elijah and his family I include the following pages that were taken from the internet via a proclamation on his website- To take and save all the information from his page, who knows how long the information may exist and the more we can get into the hands of other genealogists the better for future generations. So courtesy of Benson Y. Parkinson - I provide these pages intact so to honor Mr Parkinson's words and thoughts about sharing. This is HIS work, and I respectfully keep it as it is. Thank you for all the work you provide Mr Parkinson!
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What is happening in the Country:
To understand more about Elijah Billingsley and his family in relation to the LDS and the life they lived we have to look into not only what was happening in the religious sector, but what was happening across the country.
While Elijah was beginning his family another man was creating forming a movement called the Latter Day Saints. Joseph Smith, Jr recalled having a vision in early 1820 in Manchester, New York which he revealed he has seen visions of the Book of Mormon which he published in 1830. He then founded a Christian primitivist church called the Church of Christ. Hundreds of followers were brought about by this movement. The Seventy is a priesthood of office within the Latter Day Saint Movement. These consisted of traveling ministers and especial witness of Jesus Christ. They called these ministers "seventies". To learn more about the Seventies and the LDS Church please read this informative wiki on the topic. |
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