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Newspaper clipping in Grand Rapids Michigan (still searching for copy of article)__
Paper reports a reunion of the Baragar-Billings-Clark Families at the YWCA in Grand Rapids on Sept 11, 1912. Dr Elton P Billings was the MC where the statement was made that 5 generations of the Billings family involved had fought in some war for the liberation of the USA. This began with the Revolutionary Wart with James III, then James IV in the War of 1812, then his son Walter in the Civil War who besides having been confined the Andersonville Prison for 8 months, had 2 sons and 5 sons-in-law in the Civil War and a grandson, Walter Grey of Grand Rapids in the Spanish-American War.

Birth	Oct 1774	Stonington, New London, Connecticut
Marriage	Ca 1806	New London, New London County, Connecticut - Mary Townsend
Death	Nov 1831	Clarkson, Monroe County, New York

Spouse	Mary Townsend ( - 1818)
Child	Walter Billings (1818 - 1899)

Father	James Billings III (1751 - 1829)
Mother	Sarah Fitch (1748 - 1829)