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Jasper Billings Sr
23 Feb 1766 – 19 Nov 1856
| Birth | 23 Feb 1766 |
| Death | 19 Nov 1856 |
| Cemetery | Jasper Billings Sr Family Cemetery Whitehead , Alleghany County , North Carolina , USA |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132133045 |
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*Jasper Billings, Sr. 2/23/1766 - 11/19/1856 They probably lived near Charleston, SC, at some time Married 1 Nancy Osborne 2 Jasper, Sr.'s second wife was probably Elizabeth. In his application for bounty land for Revolutionary War service he said that he was born at Deep Rivers, NC, but while still an infant moved with his father John to SC near Charleston "at a place called Wind Hill". He said that he had entered service at Old Three Runs, SC, around 1782, possibly being stationed at Fort Sumter. He was shot in the leg at the Battle of Orangeburg and was transferred to the command of Gen. Francis Marion where Sgt. McDonald and Sgt. Jasper (Billings) were also stationed. He stated that Sgt. Jasper was his cousin. That may have been true, but his cousin was actually only a private. After the war he "set out for western NC to visit his Uncle Thomas Billings in Wilkes and in crossing the Catawba River, he lost his saddle bags, including his papers and discharge." So around 1825 "he visited his family home in SC, where his mother still lived", but was unable to find Col. Henry Hampton who discharged him. He said he was in the 6th Reg and "described his uniform as a blue coat with 2 rows of pewter buttons in front, with figure 6 on them, trimmed with red on the chest." After 1810 he moved from Wilkes Co, NC, to Grayson Co, VA, and worked in an old furnace as a blacksmith. He died in Ashe Co being listed as a mechanic. [b3, d3] Ref 13, p11. Believed to be buried here in now lost family cemetery.
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- Jasper "Gasper" Billings Jr 1792–1880
- Sarah "Sally" Billings Church 1793–1870
- Charles Billings 1797–1881
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