When Hezekiah Billips was born in 1820, in Tazewell, Virginia, United States, his father, Jameson Richard Billups, was 27 and his mother, Nancy Wright, was 22. He married Serena Sizemore in 1847, in Tazewell, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 10 daughters. He lived in Eastern District, Tazewell, Virginia, United States in 1860 and Virginia, United States in 1870. He registered for military service in 1864. He died in 1882, in Clear Fork District, Tazewell, Virginia, United States, at the age of 62.
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The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
Probably an altered form of English Billups .
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