What Family Names Married Into My Binghams?

Sarah Rebecca GUTHRIE, Olive Hovey FREEMAN, Lucinda GATES, Sarah or Sally PERRY, Emma Adams WHITE, Mary Belinda FARR, Patty PLUMLY, Sarah  Burton, Alice POWERS, Rebecca SMITH, Hannah TOMLIN, Elizabeth SCHOLEY and Lydia SNOW all  blessed my grandfathers and played a role in who I am.

My DNA has part of their DNA. Someday I hope to know each of them and figure out which of these are the reason I am so stubborn.

My grandmother Blanch Bingham married Simeon Cragun, and here I am a Cragun.

Blanche Rebecca Bingham

Blanche Rebecca Bingham 1886- 1984 the daughter of Lorenzo Freeman Bingham and Sarah Rebecca Guthrie.

Her brief story was dictated to her daughter in law Bertha Cragun and transcribed by another daughter in law Ruth Cragun.

There was 9 of us children. 6 girls and 3 boys:  I worried over my Mother long before I should. for I was always afraid she would die. When I was naughty Mother wouldn’t let me kiss her goodnight and that would break my heart. Mother could trust me with her babies and never worry. I was the oldest child.

The full article is here on the Larry Cragun Family and Family History Blog.