When Mary Elizabeth Bynum was born in March 1851, in Brown Cemetery, White, Tennessee, United States, her father, David Williamson Bynum, was 39 and her mother, Blanche Rodgers, was 24. She married Edwin C. Edmonds on 24 September 1868, in White, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Pittsburg Township, Johnson, Arkansas, United States in 1880 and Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States in 1900. She died on 8 September 1900, in Galveston, Texas, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States.
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The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Welsh: variant of Beynon (see Bennion ). This form of the surname is virtually non-existing in Britain.
Possibly also an American shortened an altered form of Dutch Van Beijnum: habitational name from the village of Beinum, nowadays a neighbourhood of Doesburg in Gelderland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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