Death and Legacy
Billings died at his home in Woodstock. He is interred at Riverside Cemetery, Woodstock, Windsor County, Vermont. Two Billings family legacies in Woodstock, the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park and the Billings Farm and Museum were created to focus on conservation, rural life and agricultural history.
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