Clackamas-Multnomah-Hood River County OR Archives Obituaries.....Billings, Mary U October 8, 1925
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Sheron Faynor nitwittwin@hotmail.com December 26, 2006, 5:49 pm

Caby Herald October 15,1925
Former Resident Of Canby Is Called
Native Daughter Of Oregon Passes To Her Final Rest At The Dalles,Ore.
Many Years In Canby
After Long Years Of Continual Washing Of The Willamette, the Old Hom ePlace Is 
Extinct
Mrs.Mary U.Billings,formerly of Gribble Prairie,died at her home in The 
Dalles,Oregon,Thursday,Oct. 8th,1925,and was laid to rest in the G.A.R. 
cemetary at The Dalles.
Nrs.Billings was born on the Abiqua River in what is now Marion County,on 
September 26,1847.Her parents,Walter and Catherine Fish,son after moved to 
what was known as the Huckleberry woods east of Canby,later moving to the Big 
Eddy at the bend of the Willamette River northeast of Canby.Here she resided 
until her marriage to Joseph B.Gribble,after which she made her home on the 
Gribble Prairie until October 1,1894.
To the above union were born eleven children,five of whom are still 
living.They are William S. and Raymond N. of tThe Dalles,Oregon;Walter L. of 
Inglewood,California;Elmer W. o Canby,Oregon;and Martin J. of Portland,Oreogn.
Mr.Gribble died on May 21,1885.
On June 26,18888,Mrs.Gribble was wedded to Amos B.Billings,to this union were 
born two children of whom one is still living,Bruce O.Billings of 
Dee,Oregon.On October 1,1925,he retired from active upper Hood River Valley 
where Mr.Billings took up a homestead and developed a valuable farm.On October 
1,1924,he retired from active life and purchased a home in The Dalles,where he 
now resides.
In the passing of Mrs.Billings Oregron loses one who knew much o fthe early 
history of the state.Her parents settled iin the Willamette Valley in about 
the year 1843,and Mrs.Billings was among the very first of white children born 
here.
The old home place at the Big Eddy,where she spent many happy days in her 
childhood has mostly all bcome a part of the river bed,and the old home site 
is perhaps in the middle of the river

Additional Comments:
Dates do not match up but this is how they were printed

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/clackamas/obits/b/billings2584gob.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/

File size: 2.6 Kb