Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 1901,
reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical Society.

JAMES BILLITER.  More accidents have happened to James Billiter than any
man who has ever lived in Grant county.  The story of his life is much
more unbelievable than a dime novel.  He was born in Grant county
September 19th, 1827.  His mother died when he was small and his father
was very dissipated, and the young man was thrown on his own resources
when very young.  He is now old and decrepit, but when he tells the
story of his life and his many mishaps the only wonder is that he is not
dead.  The story of his misadventures begins when he was only a small boy.
     When thirteen years old he was thrown from a horse and his skull
fractured, and for a time it was thought he would die.
     In 1842 he fell off of a wagon and broke his leg.  In 1844 he was
working on a two-story house in Williamstown and fell off of the roof,
and in some unaccountable manner caught by his chin on a nail and hung
in that dangerous and remarkable position until his fellow workmen
could get a ladder and get him down.
     In 1853 he was married to Miss Marietta Williams, who still survives,
and together they lead a peaceable and quiet life.
     In 1861 he was bitten by a "maddog" but has never "gone mad," had
rabies or suffered any ill effects from the wound.
     In 1867, while drinking out of a branch, he swallowed a live
crawfish, and it lived in his stomach for three months alive and well,
when, like Jonah's whale, "he threw it out."  He was in terrible torment
for a long time as the "crawfish eat away a good portion of his stomach,"
but he did not despair but grew another one.
     In 1872 he fell head foremost from the roof of a four-story
building, landing on his head in the cellar on a pile of rocks, and was
badly hurt but recovered.  In 1884 he had smallpox and was in quarantine
for several weeks.
     He says he has paid out in his life more than $10,000 in doctor's
bills and for medicines.  He says he thinks he ought to get a pension.

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