Mary Elizabeth Bynum

Brief Life History of Mary Elizabeth

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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Family Time Line

Edwin C. Edmonds
1840–1904
Mary Elizabeth Bynum
1851–1900
Marriage: 24 September 1868
Daisy Edmonds
1869–1871
Hallie Bell Edmonds
1876–1943
William Franklin Edmonds
1876–1947
Alonzo Newton Edmonds
1880–1943
Thomas Lee Edmonds Sr
1882–1962
Frederick Vernaldo Edmonds
1888–1945

Sources (18)

  • M C Edmonds in household of William Berner, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Mary Bynum, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
  • Mary E. Bynum Edmonds, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

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.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1865

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

Name Meaning

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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Mary E. Bynum Edmonds

There is a story that was retold over the years in my family about a mother and two of her sons who were in a terrible storm. The mother died but the two sons held onto her body until they had to let …

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