Probable Photographs of John Billiter and wife Lucy Ann
Crow circa 1865
John Billiter (?)
Lucy Ann Crow Billiter (?)
We think these photo images are very likely those of John Billiter, son of
Joe the Boat Builder, and of John's wife, Lucy Ann Crow. John was born in
1816 in Pennsylvania, and he married Lucy Crow in 1835 in Marshall Co,
Virginia (now West Virginia). Earl Billiter, a descendant of John and Lucy,
kindly provided the photos. Karen Romick and her brother scanned them into
digital format, and Ralph Billiter had them dated (Thanks to the Ohio
Historical Society!) to the late Civil War period, about 1865. John would
have been 49, and Lucy Ann would have been about 45. Their last child,
George Billiter, was about one year old, and another son, Peter, my
g-grandfather, would have been 2 to 3 years old then. John died about three
years after the photographs were taken. Lucy lived much longer and
eventually remarried Elias Villers.
We would be grateful to anyone who could positively identify either of
these photographs.
Lucy Ann Crow is the daughter of Peter Crow (b 1763) and Suzanna
Earlewine. Peter and his father, Jacob, were Revolutionary soldiers (See
DAR records.) Peter was also a scout in the preliminaries to the Sandusky
campaign which culminated in the Battle of Fallen Timbers (August 20, 1794
near modern Toledo, Ohio.)
The Billiter genealogy for John and Lucy Ann may be found by following
the Contents link on the Billiter Lines home page.
[Discussion courtesy Jim Billiter, gg-grandson of John and Lucy Ann.]