William L. "Billy" Voight and his wife Cindy are retired and live in Columbia. The couple were married in 2014 and generally take their winters in Naples, Florida where they teach line dance to seniors and play pickleball daily.

Voight grew up in Rolla, Missouri and graduated from Lincoln University with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics. He is the father of two children and grandfather to five.

During his early career Billy was a central office switchman at Sprint telephone company in Jefferson City. From 1994 to 2014 he was Supervisor of Telecommunications Rates and Tariffs for the Missouri Public Service Commission.

Compatriot Voight was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army Reserves where he was trained as an infantryman (11B) and served in a reserve status with the 471st Engineers. His unit was not deployed to serve in combat.

Voight joined the SAR in 2022 on the basis of his ancestral patriot Enoch Jobe. Private Jobe, who was of the Quaker faith, volunteered with the 8th Virginia regiment in February 1776 and was discharged at the Valley Forge in February 1778. He fought at the Battles of White Planes, Brandywine, Germantown, Trenton and White Marsh. Patriot Enoch Job migrated to Cooper County Missouri in about 1819 and has a DAR grave marker in Moniteau County.

Voight is believed to have other patriot ancestors, all of whom were Virginians. Voight enjoys researching their military records and doing the genealogical research necessary to eventually establish supplementary SAR memberships.

The patriot Thomas Maxwell. whose gravestone is shown in the photo, is one such example.

Compatriot Voight enjoys serving as a musketeer and Commander of the M. Graham Clark color guard. He enjoys studying the social, political and economics of military history and the challenge of replicating the clothing and accruements of his patriot ancestors.

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