Family/Spouse: HUSTED, Mary. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Castile NY Castilian - 6/24/1920

Mra.. Ezra H Billings died at her
home in Hurd street last Sunday
night, after an illness of six months
from heart disease. Sarah Elizabeth
Crisey was , born in Castile, August
15th, 1844. parents were Aaron
Crisey and Mary Husted Crisey.
Nearly all ot her life was" spent in
this town. On March 6th, 1863, she
married Ezra H. Billings in the town
ot Oenesee Falls. Five children were
born to them. Albert' and Walter Bil-
Granges Will Compete
lings of this place and Merton Billings
ot Cuyahoga Falls,-O survive. Her son
Fred Billings, and daughter, Mrs.
Ida Klngsley, died several years ago.
Mr. Billings died in July, 1908. A
month ago Mrs. Billings was" taken t6
the sanitarmm--while her household
were'-being. moved to their-new-home
in Hard street, and on her return,
Mrs Merton-Billings came from Ohio
and haa been caring for her during
her last illness. Mrs. Billings' cheerful
and helpful life; her devotions as
wife and mother; her kindness to everybody,
.will long linger as a memory
in the home which, her presence
brightened and which death has now
darkened. The funeral services were,
held.at the home last Tuesday afternoon
at three o'clock,' Rev. M. R, Palmer,
pastor of the Baptist church, of
which the deceased was at one time a
member, officiated. The many floral
offerings were evidence of the esteem
in which the deceased .was held - by
the ffeopje of the village. The burial
was In Grace cemetery.

Sarah married BILLINGS, Ezra H on 6 Mar 1863 in Genesee Falls, Wyoming County, NY. Ezra (son of BILLINGS, Joseph and DEAN, Betsy) was born in Apr 1840 in Castile, Wyoming County, NY; died on 23 Jun 1908 in Castile, Wyoming County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Castile NY Castilian - 1/1894

-Mrs.lda Kingsley died at her home
last Sunday morning, of inflammation
of the bowels, aged 29 years. She- had
only been sick a few days. She was the
only .daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra
Billings. Her husband and three children
survive her, also her father, mother
and four brothers. The funeral was
largely attended Tuesday forenoon.
The interment was made in Grace cemetery.

ALSO

Castile NY Castilian

Mrs. Ida Kingsley.
The sad news came to us last Sabbath
morning, as we were preparing for
church, that Mrs. Ida Kingsley, wife of
Earl Kingsley, had been called from this
earthly life. Among many friends, in-
cluding all classes, the intelligence was
received with evidences of genuine re-
gret. Gentle in manner, unostentatious
in pretension, she had won for herself a
place in the esteem of the community of
which any member of society might
well feel proud. and, as she passed to
the grave, the course of her funeral
cortege was moistened with the tears of
many who loved her.
In the opening years of that which
promised an unqualifiedly successful
career, she stopped to obey the inexer-
able mandate of the Reaper, with her
life work still undone, and yet, withal
much more complete than many who
tottered to their tombs, bending beneath
the weight of years spent in continuous
effort.
To her relatives remains the tribute of
esteem, which goes out freely to her
memory, the gentle sympathy of friends
who mourn in all sinceeity, the memory
of one who held high rank in their af-
fections, and whose life will prove a
sweet though saddened heritage through-
out the days of their terrestrial pilgrimm-
age.
The pastor the Christian church
officiated at the funeral, on Tuesday,
Jan 2d, 1894 at 11 a.m., at the resi-
dence.

Family/Spouse: KINGSLEY, Earl. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Castile NY Castilian - 12/17/1909

Railroading exacts a terrible toll each
year from the men who are employed in
that work, and every day the papers report
several cases of those who give up
their lives in the performance of their
duties. Castile has g i v e t u p a score or
more of her citizens in this way, and
now another has answered the last sum-
mons without a moment's warning.
Saturday morning about five o'clock,
Fred Billings, conductor, left Hornell
with the Erie " P i c k - u p " and a string
seventy live cars,' All trains have to
stop for orders at Burns, for the single
track between that place and Canaser-
aga, and in order not to loose any time,
Conductor Billings, jumped from the
engine, secured his orders and attempted
to board his train again. Just how he
met his death will never be known, and
one saw the accident. It is supposed
t h a t in running along the track, he
stumbled over a pile of cinders and was
thrown under the wheels. The train
proceeded to Canaseraga, and it was
there they first missed him. Following
them was passenger train 23, but he did
not come on that, so taking the engine
and caboose, they started out to look for
him. Meantime another freight train in
charge of Conductor Bromley, came
along and discovered the body lying on
the track. They picked him up, car-
ried him into the station and notified
Coroner A. T. Bacon of Canastaga,
who ordered the body taken to that
place.
Sunday morning, the remains were
brought here and taken to the undertak-
ing rooms of Clark M. Aldrich, where
they were prepared for burial. The
funeral was held from the home of his
mother, Mrs. Ezra Billings Monday
afternoon at two o'clock and the burial
was in Hope cemetery. Rev. C. R. Buck
officiated. The bearers were railroad
men, members of his own crew. There
was a profusion of flowers.
Fred Billings was born in Castile 41
years ago, and was the son of Ezra
and Sarah Crissy Bilings, and for the
past twenty-one years he has been in the
employ of the Erie railroad, for the most
part making his home in Buffalo. He
was of a genial disposition, and was well
iked by the men who worked with him.
He was never married; but leaves a
mother and three brothers, Albert, Wal-
ter and Merton Billings, all of this place.

Merton married MCKINNEY, Bertha L on 26 Apr 1904 in Perry, Wyoming County, NY. Bertha was born about 1882 in PA; died on 6 Mar 1922 in Cuyahoga Falls, Summit County, OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jennie E. Jennie was born about 1888 in OH; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]