Blanche Rebecca Bingham Cragun Smith

My grandmother, my fathers mother was born Blanche Rebecca Bingham. She married Grundy for a short time, until she discovered the other woman in his life.

She than married Simeon Cragun.

After Simeon died, she married Kent Smith.

Thankful Metcalf Durant

Nancy Cragun Day Provides this Interesting tidbit: Thankful, related thru Grandma Blanche's aunt Diana Bingham, lived in an Old Ladies Home (poor house) in Erie, Pennsylvania. In the 1910 census she is called an inmate. She was 97.
She died at 99, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=81969935

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.