Elizabeth Caroline Ivie. Born 1837, Far West, Caldwell, Missouri. Married Campbell Billingsley. Died 28 July 1901.

Campbell Billingsley was living at Mt Pleasant, Sanpete, UT in 1860, a farmer with a family of five. In 1870 he was in Minersville, Beaver, UT, listed as a trader, with a family of nine. In 1890, he is listed as a stockholder of the Minersville Reservoir and Irrigation Company. Died 18 Nov, 1909

"William Barton Campbell Billingsley was the second child of Elijah R. and

Emeline Northcott Billingsley, born 8 Jan 1831 in Gibson County, Tennessee, which was pretty much frontier then (Davy Crockett was a neighbor, and several Billingsleys went to Texas at the same time as he did). William's family moved to Pontotoc County, Mississippi, also recently settled, where his father Elijah was a judge. There is a tradition in the family that Elijah had a mansion and slaves, but the evidence I've been able to gather (tax and census records) leads me to believe this wasn't the case. His father did have quite a bit of land though and several slaves, so that could be the source of the stories.

Elijah joined the Church in 1845 and joined the Saints in Mt. Pisgah. Campbell was baptized August 1846 in Iowa at age 15, the third in his family. Gradually the whole family joined--either that or I'm just missing the earliest dates and the later ones are rebaptisms. The family came west in the William Snow-Joseph Young company in 1850. They lived in Mill Creek (Salt Lake) a couple of years and then moved to Provo, where Elijah was an alderman and later a prosecuting attorney. The family experienced the

Walker War, the famine, and the honeydew miracle." (see materials on Campbell's next older sister Miriam on my web page. Ben Parkinson http://billingsley.parkinsonfamily.org. ).

"August 18th [1857], Major Wm A. FOollett, Sergt. Richard Sessions, SIdney Bailey, THomas G. Wilson, Abraham Holladay, Martin W. Mills, Alva A. Zabriskie, Campbell Billingsley, Amos W. Haws, and Thomas, Woolsey, pursuant to orders, went on a twenty day's trip around the headwaters of the SPanish Fork, Duchane, and Provo rivers." Beginning September 1 another company including Elijah Billingsley and Jas. A. Ivie "proceeded to explore the head waters of the south fork of Provo river and the surrounding country." Likely this expedition was to make the Mormons familiar with the country in case they had to fight or in case they were pushed south by the U.S. Army. The next spring and summer, all of northern Utah evacuated to Utah County the next summer. People were camped everywhere, and a baby was born in Elijah's granary. "History of Provo," in Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine, vol. 3, no. 3 (July, 1884) page 271:

Twin Creek " ...After a while we moved out on a farm at Twin Creek, about a mile and a half from the fort, where we went to a school taught by Cam Billingsley---that is all I ever heard him called. Here I remember the spelling class where we spelled "up" and went "down" to the foot of the class, the one getting to the top the greatest number of times during the week gaining the prize for being the best speller. I still have the little

piece of paper decorated with fancy penmanship saying: "Hulda Winters is the best speller in the school." This caused some heartburnings in the "big girl" who stood up with us smaller girls in the class. It seemed to me that she was a grown woman, but she may not have been more than fourteen or so, for I was not over seven, I know, because I had my eighth birthday after we returned to Pleasant Grove. ("A Mormon Wife ... THE LIFE STORY OF AUGUSTA WINTERS GRANT" By Mary Grant Judd IMPROVEMENT ERA 1941

[There is a Twin Creek in the Bear Lake area. Augusta [later?] went to the

Timpanogos School in Provo.]

Lincoln Camp (c1872-5) was located near the Lincoln mine, near Minersville.

"Men were moving from Parowan, Cedar, Beaver, etc. Families moving in began to build or make dugouts in the sides of the hills along the creek. The creek water was made up from springs that were fed from the mine. When the water was pumped out of the mine, the creek became dry. Many families were living in tents and thus began a tent town. The saloon was located about one-half mile southwest of the mine, among the cottonwood trees by the creek. The saloon was run by two men, a Mr Irish, and Bill Billingsley. The biggest tent town was built just north of the present road crossing the creek, another was just east of the mine. The miners and mill workers lived in tent houses and tents were continuous from the crossing to quite a distance above the mine, east...In the once booming town, considerable drinking & gambling among the lead miners and the smelter men caused many a night to be disturbed by the noise of fighting and gunfire." from They Answered the Call.

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