Alice Lemira LaMar

Alice Lemira Billheimer (b. October 07, 1851, d. November 15, 1939)

Alice Lemira Billheimer (daughter of Solomon Billheimer and Margaret Gephardt) was born October 07, 1851 in Wayne Co., Indiana, and died November 15, 1939 in Kansas City, Jackson Co., MO. She married Nathan Samuel LaMar on August 21, 1867 in Dublin, Wayne Co., IN, son of Samuel LaMar and Judith Baldwin.

Notes for Alice Lemira Billheimer: Alice and minor children Mary F., Nellie Maude and Freddie Clyde were received by request at the Springfield Monthly Meeting.

Letter found in Nathan Lamar's Widow's Pension File:

"Feb. 6 /27

Dear President Coolidge, There is a Pension bill before the Senate to Pension women past 75 years old the amount of $50, per month. It passed both Houses last year but you failed to sign it but did Pension those who were married when their husbands were discharged. My husband Nathan S. Lamar was captured in Stonemans raid at Macon Ga. was in Andersonville nine months and until the close of the war You know of that terrible pen. He came home unable to work for a year. In 1867 we were married I barely 16 we lived together 37 years when he died but all those years suffered from his prison confinement. I feel I did my duty by him nursed him and cared for him now I am almost 77 and $30. per month clothes me and my necessary expense article of room and board and since I cannot work now to earn money I feel I am entitled to the $50. per month, don't you? So I hope you may sign this bill if it passes, and help many loyal women. Very Respectfully one of your loyal admirers Alice Lamar 3435 Charlotte Kansas City, Mo."

Sources:

Abbrev: Alice Lamar Death- Memorial Service Program Title: Mrs. Alice Billheimer Lamar Memorial Service Program, copy in possession of Joyce Turner, 2805 Yeonas Dr., Vienna, VA, 2000 Abbrev: Herbert McDivot- 1900 US Census Title: Herbert McDivot entry, 1900 U.S. Census, Population Schedule, Wayne Twp., Richmond Co., IN, E.D. 169, Supervisor's District 6, sheet 9B, dwelling 216, family 225, Micropublication T623, Roll 412 Publication: National Archives, Washington, DC. Repository: Name: National Archives and Records Administration Washington, DC 20408 Abbrev: Soloman Billheimer- 1860 US Census Title: Soloman Billhimer entry, 1860 U.S. Census, Population Schedule, Franklin Twp., Wayne Co., IN, Dalton Post Office, page 286, sheet 143, dwelling 1091, family 1091, Micropublication M653, Roll 308 Publication: National Archives, Washington, DC. Repository: Name: National Archives and Records Administration Washington, DC 20408 Abbrev: Dorrel & Hamm- Friends in IN Title: "Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana, Volume 1, Whitewater and Springfield Monthly Meetings, Wayne County" Author: Ruth Dorrel and Thomas D. Hamm, editors revised edition; Willard C. Heiss, original editor Publication: Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1996 Repository: Name: Library of Congress Washington, DC 20540

Page: p. 167 Quality: 3 Abbrev: Dorrel & Hamm- Friends in IN Title: "Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana, Volume 1, Whitewater and Springfield Monthly Meetings, Wayne County" Author: Ruth Dorrel and Thomas D. Hamm, editors revised edition; Willard C. Heiss, original editor Publication: Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1996 Repository: Name: Library of Congress Washington, DC 20540

Page: p. 199 Quality: 3 Abbrev: WSW to JST- e-mail 12 Sep 2000 Title: WSW to JST- e-mail 12 Sep 2000 Abbrev: Nathan S. Lamar- Pension File Title: Nathan Lamar File, Invalid Application No. 556490, Invalid Certificate No. 381140, Widow's Application No. 809519, Widow's Certificate No. 578872, original file photocopied by Joyce Turner on 31 Jan 2001 in Room 203 Publication: National Archives, Washington, DC. Repository: Name: National Archives and Records Administration Washington, DC 20408 Abbrev: Dorrel & Hamm- Friends in IN Title: "Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana, Volume 1, Whitewater and Springfield Monthly Meetings, Wayne County" Author: Ruth Dorrel and Thomas D. Hamm, editors revised edition; Willard C. Heiss, original editor Publication: Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1996 Repository: Name: Library of Congress Washington, DC 20540

Page: p. 167

Alice Lamar requests testimony from Jacob Markle and Elizabeth Markle, her brother-in-law and sister be admitted in her widow's pension claim.

Sources: Abbrev: Yount- Tombstones in Wayne Co., IN Title: Tombstone Inscriptions in Wayne County, Indiana, 4 volumes Author: Beverly Yount, compiler Publication: Fort Wayne: Fort Wayne Public Library, 1968- 1970 Note: 3:186 Abbrev: Soloman Billheimer- 1860 US Census Title: Soloman Billhimer entry, 1860 U.S. Census, Population Schedule, Franklin Twp., Wayne Co., IN, Dalton Post Office, page 286, sheet 143, dwelling 1091, family 1091, Micropublication M653, Roll 308 Publication: National Archives, Washington, DC. Repository: Name: National Archives and Records Administration Washington, DC 20408 Abbrev: Fox- Memoirs of Wayne County Title: Memoirs of Wayne County and the City of Richmond Indiana From the Earliest Historical Times Down to the Present, Including a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Representative Families in Wayne County 2 volumes Author: Hon. Henry Clay Fox, editor-in-chief Publication: Madison, WI: Western Historical Association, 1912 Note: 2: 761 Abbrev: Nathan S. Lamar- Pension File Title: Nathan Lamar File, Invalid Application No. 556490, Invalid Certificate No. 381140, Widow's Application No. 809519, Widow's Certificate No. 578872, original file photocopied by Joyce Turner on 31 Jan 2001 in Room 203 Publication: National Archives, Washington, DC. Repository: Name: National Archives and Records Administration Washington, DC 20408

Lamar, Alice- mother-in-law, f, w, 68, widowed, can read & write, IN, Fa: VA, Mo: PA, no occupation (1920 census, she is listed as living with Chauncy and Nellie)

More About Alice Lemira Billheimer: Burial: 1939, Earlham Cemetery, Richmond, Wayne Co., IN. Residence: 1920, 124 Franklin Blvd., Pontiac, Michigan.

More About Alice Lemira Billheimer and Nathan Samuel LaMar: Marriage: August 21, 1867, Dublin, Wayne Co., IN.

Children of Alice Lemira Billheimer and Nathan Samuel LaMar are: +Nelle Maude LaMar, b. January 13, 1881, Richmond, near Hagerstown, Wayne Co., Indiana, d. December 1953, Pontiac, Michigan. William B. LaMar, b. November 05, 1868, Dublin, Henry Co., IN, d. November 05, 1868, Dublin, Henry Co., IN. Franklin S. LaMar, b. January 13, 1870, Wayne Co., IN, d. December 08, 1953, Kansas City, Jackson Co., MO. +Effie Luella LaMar, b. December 10, 1872, Hagerstown, Wayne Co., IN, d. June 02, 1962, Claremont, Los Angeles Co., CA. +Mary Florence LaMar, b. November 22, 1875, Indiana, d. date unknown. Frederick Clyde LaMar, d. date unknown.