Charley R. and Edna B. Billingslea

Purchased
Antique Store
Montavilla Neighborhood
Portland, Oregon

Type
Cabinet Card (circa 1892)

Studio
Dickinson
NE Corner Third and High Streets, Hamilton, O
[Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio]

Notations
Charley R. and Edna B. Billingslea

Research
Charles R. Billingslea b. Apr 1883 in Ohio, m. abt 1908 Hattie V. [--?--] b. abt 1882 in Ohio. They lived in Springfield, Ohio in 1920. In 1930 Charles was a bookkeeper at a milk plant, and he and Hattie were living at 93 Richards Road in Columbus, Ohio. He also had no children.Charles was selected to be a delegate to the state Democratic convention in 1908.

Edna B. Billingslea b. Sep 1887 in Ohio. In the 1920 census of Butler County, Ohio, Edna, age 32, was single and living with her parents who ran a telephone exchange where she worked as an operator.By 1930 her mother had died, but her father was still running the telephone exchange with the help of an employee. Edna apparently never married or had children.

Parents
Robert M. Billingslea b. Oct 1844 Maryland, and Martha A. Billingslea b. Mar 1848 Ohio

Robert was the Butler County representative in the Ohio state senate, and voted with the minority against a temperance measure in 1908.

Sources
Robert M. Billingslea household, 1900 U.S. census, Butler County, Ohio, population schedule, town of Liberty, enumeration district [ED] 17, supervisor's district [SD] 2, sheet 6B, dwelling 142, family 145; National Archives micropublication T623, roll 1244.

Robert M. Billingslea household, 1920 US census, Butler County, Ohio, population schedule, town of Liberty, enumeration district [ED] 44, supervisor's district [SD] 249, sheet 3A, dwelling 58, family 59, National Archives micropublication T625, roll 1352.

Charles R. Billingslea household, 1930 US census, Franklin County, Ohio, population schedule, town of Columbus, enumeration district [ED] 239, supervisor's district [SD] 17, sheet 19A, dwelling 93, family 11; National Archives micropublication , roll 1802.

Daily Republican News (Hamilton, Ohio) 27 February 1908, page 1, col. 5. [database online] Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2003. Original data: Database created from microfilm copies of the newspaper. (Robert)

Daily Republican News (Hamilton, Ohio) 29 February 1908, page 1, col. 1. [database online] Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2003. Original data: Database created from microfilm copies of the newspaper. (Charles)

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