Alfred Nelson Billings (1825-1881) - Find a Grave Memorial

Alfred Nelson Billings

Birth

23 Aug 1825

Kirtland, Lake County, Ohio, USA

Death

12 Mar 1881 (aged 55)

Rio, Utah County, Utah, USA

Burial

Provo City Cemetery

Provo, Utah County, Utah, USA Show Map

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BILLINGS, ALFRED NELSON (son of Titus Billings and Diantha Morley of Manti. Utah). Born Aug. 23, 1825, in Geauga County, Ohio. Came to Utah in 1848.

Married Deborah Patten Dec. 9, 1857, in Manti, Utah (daughter of John Patten and Hannah Ingersoll of Green County Indiana, pioneers 1850). She was born on April 11, 1830.

Their children: Alfred Nelson, m. Alice E. Orser; Diantha, m. John H. Worsley; George Pierce, m. Lydia Ann Young; William Wallace, m. Maggie Greenhalgh; Hannah, m. Joseph E Daniels; Warren Frank, m. Rachel Malinda Rasmussen; John Dwight, m. Florence Pyne; Elmyra Louisa, m. Robert Anderson; Florence, d. child. The family resided in Provo and Manti, Utah.

Called to Elk Mountain mission; a missionary among the Indians in 1855. Moved from Manti to Provo where he assisted in developing the country. Tax collector Manti for four years. Farmer. Died March 12, 1881, at Provo.

-Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah page 60 and 61

BILLINGS, ALFRED NELSON (son of Titus Billings and Diantha Morley of Manti. Utah). Born Aug. 23, 1825, in Geauga County, Ohio. Came to Utah in 1848.

Married Deborah Patten Dec. 9, 1857, in Manti, Utah (daughter of John Patten and Hannah Ingersoll of Green County Indiana, pioneers 1850). She was born on April 11, 1830.

-Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah page 60 and 61