Clackamas-Hood River County OR Archives Obituaries.....Billings, Amos April 24, 1930
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Cany Herald April 31,1930
Billings Funeral Held at Hood Rier, Oregon
Funeral services were held Wednesday of last week at Hoodriver for the late 
Amos Billings,84, a former resident of this community, who died at the home of 
his son, Bruce Billings at Hood River,following a short illness of pneumonia.
Mr.Billings was born December 18,1847, in the southern Cleveland,O. When about 
ten years of age he moved with his parents to Leslie,Mich.,Detroit,theri 
tradiing point, was then a town of about 300 inhabitants.
Iin 1864 Mr.Billings, at the age of 16 years, entered the Eighth Michigan 
cavalry,Co.F and served under General Sherman. He started on the march to the 
sea, but was sent toraise the siege of Atlanta and was wounded at the battle 
of Missionary Rige and Lookout Mountain.
At the close of the war Mr.Billings went to Chicago where he later became a 
locomotive engineer.
During the great Chicago fire he worked at one time sixty two hours without 
rest, hauling trins out of the burning railroad yards.
After seventy years of rairoad service his tarin, The Antlantic Express, was 
derailed and in the wreck he was burned with steam so seriuosly that he was 
confined to a hospital for 18 months.
Following his recovery he toured the ewastern and middle states,being snowed 
in for some time on a ranch in Kansas.
He settled at The Dalles,Oregon in the winter of 1883 and 1884 to find twelve 
feet of snow at that city.
On June 26,1884,Mr.Billings married Mrs. Mary Gribble and they resided on 
Gribble prairie,Clackamas county until October 1894, when they moved to a 
homestead in the upper HOod River Valley. In 1924 Mr. and Mrs. Billings moved 
to The Dalles. Following Mrs. Billings death four years ago,Mr.Billings lived 
with his son at Hood River, where he died April 21.
Funeral services were conducted by the Hood River American Legion, with full 
military honors being accorded as befitting a G.A.R. veteran. internment was 
at The Dalles, beside his wife.
Mr. Billinfs is survived bya son, Bruce Billings, and four step sons, Walter 
L. Gribble,ingelwood,California;Raymond N. Gribble, of The Dalles,Oregon; 
martin Gribble, and Elmer Gribble of Canby

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