Amelia Celeste and Mira Dow Billings

Third Generation

Amelia Celeste Billings, 1874-1930

Mira Dow Billings, 1877-1969

Little documentation exists regarding the lives of Amelia Celeste and Mira Dow Billings. The daughters of Samuel and Amelia Traveller were left with little inheritance, due to their father’s lack of inheritance himself. What little there was, Mira Dow had put towards caring for her sickly mother and infirmed sister. Amelia Celeste passed away in 1930.

 

CA-000821 Mira Dow Billings and Mrs. J. Christensen, 1950.

TITLE Mira Dow Billings and Mrs. J. Christensen
DATE 1950
ITEM NUMBER CA-000821
DESCRIPTION Mira Dow Billings and Mrs. J. Christensen sitting on the porch of Samuel Billings’ home with dog Goldie.

Mira Dow managed to make an income from the 20 acres of land her father had left to her, with some support from her cousin Charles Murray Billings. In her later years, Mira Dow rented her home to tenants and remained as a border. She eventually sold her property and moved. Mira Dow Billings passed away at the age of 92 in 1969.

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