Members of the Billingslea Family

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Notes about the Billingslea Family

There are several spellings for this surname, including Billingsley and Billingsly. In one gentleman\'s military record from the CSA, it changed between Billingslea and Billingsley 17 different times!
There\'s a book called The Billingsley\'s in America, that bears checking into if you\'re researching this family, and Historic Southern Families, Volume III. According to these sources, the family arrived from England sometime in the 1730\'s, and settled in Maryland. A Billingslea has fought in every American war since then. The phrase \"Remember the Alamo\" is even credited to a Jesse Billingsley, who was wounded along Sam Houston in the Texan war for Independence.

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