Re: Ezekiel Billington Grave TN
From:marcia.williams <marcia.williams@mediacombb.net>
marcia.williams@mediacombb.net
To:wayneal1 <wayneal1@aol.com>
Date:Wed, Jun 6, 2012 6:47 pm
J.B. Winn would be the best one to carry on with keeping
this cemetery active on the internet. I think J.B. younger
than the rest of us. I try to keep in touch with his mother
Sharon. I live in Iowa and they live in Missouri. I wish we
had some one closer to continue on. Margaret Billington is
in her 70's and still takes care of the Billington cemetery
across the road from her home which is less than 5 mi. from
this farm inside Maury County and north of Hwy 99:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~maury/cemetery/BillingtonCem/BillingtonCemList.html
(Billington Cemetery, Maury County)
Ezekiel's tombstone is not up next to Hwy 99. It is in the
middle of a pasture where Frank Osteen has cows on
this(his)land. I received permission from him and met his
daughter Rebecca who let me into the property to get back to
the grave. The gate to the house is locked and has a
security system on it. Frank is the one who is trying to
clean up the area on his land.
fosteen@bellsouth.net this is his email if you need to gain
access. He is the one to contact about further maintenance
of this grave site as the cemetery is on his private
property.
I am attaching some photos, I took the first 2 and Frank
sent me the other 2 showing how it looked last fall.
As far as putting some of this information on the
Find-a-Grave site I don't have a problem with that but I
credit J.B. Winn's leadership for his efforts to clean up
this area. I know his father Lonnie was having health issues
earlier in April so I don't know where they stand on upkeep.
Thank you for your efforts and the posting to findagrave and
this site.
Marcia Billington Williams
From: wayneal1@aol.com
To: "marcia williams" <marcia.williams@mediacombb.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 4:17:57 PM GMT -06:00
US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: Ezekiel Billington Grave TN
I am unrelated to the Billingtons, but keep my ears attuned
to historic information like this to add to findagrave.com
and/or my cemetery site. If you would like that record to
maintain it on findagrave let me know and I will transfer it
to you. Especially if you are younger than I. "Maintain it"
on findagrave.com means nothing except simply make any
updates or changes in the future if additional information
becomes available no so unlike you do on Ancestry.com.
I think it was J.B. Winn who gave me permission and help to
post all that, but unfortunately since I did not visit the
site I am guessing at the mapping. However it is a very
experienced guess using the latest techniques and maps on
the internet coupled with that J.B. said and the book
Marshall County Tennessee Cemeteries. It is important to say
this cemetery has not been mapped so is left off of all
national mapping efforts to locate all the cemeteries.
I will still maintain the cemetery since all that Latitude &
Longitude stuff blows some folks away.
I would like to do better job of locating the stone. I
initially had the cemetery located in a ditch beside the
road in front of an old abandoned house? The job of posting
the Lat/Log is some easier since the stone was located in
the Billington Cemetery of Marshall County which is in the
county cemetery book.
C. Wayne Austin
From: Marcia.Williams <marcia.williams@mediacombb.net>
To: C. Wayne Austin <wayneal1@aol.com>
Sent: Tue, Jun 5, 2012 11:29 am
Subject: Ezekiel Billington Grave TN
Hi! I found you through Find a Grave and information you
posted about Ezekiel Billington 1759 - 1848. He is buried
near Lewisburg, TN.
Ezekiel Billington was my 5th Great Grandfather. I searched
for his grave and was assisted by Margaret Billington who
lives near this farm where he is buried. James Brent Winn
and his father Lonnie Winn came from Missouri in Jan. 2003
and cleared this area and put a fence around it. J. Brent
had been in the Marines and contacted the Veterans
Administration to report that there was a Revolutionary War
Veteran buried in this cemetery. The VA provided the stone
and they placed it in this cemetery in 2003.
I am Marcia Billington Williams and I found Margaret and
have kept in touch with her. Working with her we located the
current owner of this farm. We got permission to come on to
the land and I took a couple of pictures and posted them on
Ancestry.com with my Family Tree "James Billington 1723.
This was Ezekiel's father.
I thought I would pass along this information. The farm is
now owned by Frank Osteen who lives in Georgia. I have been
in touch with him and he is trying to clean this area up and
maintain it in between his busy working schedule. His email
address is: fosteen@bellsouth.net.
This is the email address for Lonnie and Sharon Billington
Winn who placed the stone: landswinn@sbcglobal.net
Sincerely
Marcia Billington Williams
(515) 778-4700
221 S 52nd St
W. Des Moines, IA 50265
