Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-08-18 | Page 10 | Couple Married for 50 Years over a Half Century in Utah

Couple Married for 50 Years n n n n n n , ;0ver a Half Century in Utali M' It. AND MP.S. LUCIUS A. BILLINGS, pioneer residents of Salt Lake, who w ill celebrate their golden wedding anni-I anni-I ve,rsarv at their old home tomorrow. 1 ! - . .nay ' ! I I UA 1 yHJt KJ Mr. and Mrs. Lucius A. Billings Celebrate Golden Wedding Tomorrow. LUCIUS A. BILLINGS and his wife, Emma Parry Billings, will celebrate their golden wedding tomorrow at the old family homestead, 52 South Fifth West street, in the midst of two generations of their posterity. These veteran citizens have lived in" Salt Lake since the early settlement of Utah, having come here with the early emigrants to help pioneer pio-neer the way. Mr. Billings, more familiarly ltnown as "Josh" Billings, has established a record for faithful and long service in the Salt Lake postoffice, having been employed there continuously since 1S6S. At that time only four employees were required to conduct the local postal service. Now there are more than 200. He was succeeded in the snperintend-ency snperintend-ency of the mailing department several years ago by a younger man whom he had trained. Mr. Billings spent his early years in Cherry vallev, Ohio, where he was born September 18, 1835. At the age of 17 he made an adventurous trip from Now York to California by way of Panama, which he crossed on foot. In 1861 he responded to the call of President Lincoln for volunteers to fight in defense of the union. He came to Utah in 1SG3 with General Connor and took part in the establishing of Port Douglas. On being released three years later from the army service he decided to make his home in Salt Lake. Eihma Parry Billings was born in Denbigshire, North Wales, Alarch 27, 1850. At the age of 10 she came to America with her parents, the trip from ber native land to Salt Lake consuming consum-ing six months. Mr. and Mrs. Billings were married August 19, 1868. They have had seven children, four sons and three daughters, of whom only three sons are now living. liv-ing. They are C. G. Billings and T. P. Billings of Salt Lake, and' M. K. Billings Bill-ings of Boston.