When James Turner Billingsley was born on 11 December 1834, in Gibson, Tennessee, United States, his father, Elijah Randolph Billingsley, was 28 and his mother, Emaline Lovina Northcutt, was 28. He married Almira Permelia Howd on 5 October 1864, in Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. He died on 4 October 1867, in Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States, at the age of 32, and was buried in Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
After the Saints had been chased out of Missouri they moved to a swampy area located next to the Mississippi River. Here they settled and named the place Nauvoo which translates into the city beautiful.
"In October 1845, the newspaper Times and Seasons published a poem written by Eliza R. Snow entitled ""My Father in Heaven."" It has become the well known hymn, ""Oh My Father."" The song is only one in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hymnbook that referrs to a Heavenly Mother."
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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