When John Samuel Billington was born on 27 January 1859, in Stahl, Adair, Missouri, United States, his father, Araphus Rufus Billington, was 23 and his mother, Elizabeth Elvina Ledford, was 26. He married Mary Alice Adkins on 20 August 1880, in Adair, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Morrow Township, Adair, Missouri, United States for about 60 years. He died on 2 November 1937, in Green Castle, Sullivan, Missouri, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Morelock Cemetery, Morrow Township, Adair, Missouri, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of the three places called Billington, in Lancashire, Staffordshire, and Bedfordshire. The first of these is first recorded in 1196 as Billingduna ‘sword-shaped hill’ (see Bill 2); the second is in Domesday Book as Belintone ‘settlement (Old English tūn) of Billa’; the one in Bedfordshire is recorded in 1196 as Billendon, from an Old English personal name Billa + dūn ‘hill’. The place in Lancashire is the most likely source of the surname.
History: John Billington (1580–1630), from Spalding, Lincolnshire, was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620 and an early settler in Plymouth Colony. Governor Bradford called him ‘the profanest’ of the settlers; eventually he was hanged for murder. His son Francis married and had children.
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