When Eliza Jerusha W Billingsley was born on 9 September 1823, in Claiborne, Tennessee, United States, her father, William Park Billingsley, was 25 and her mother, Nancy Margaret McCreary, was 22. She married Captain Elias Ely on 7 November 1845, in Claiborne, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Tennessee, United States in 1870. She died on 9 July 1872, in Claiborne, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Ely Cemetery, Cumberland Gap, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States.
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English (West Midlands): habitational name from a place in Shropshire named Billingsley, from Old English Billingeslēah ‘clearing (Old English lēah) near a sword-shaped hill’ (billing). See Bill 2.
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