George Washington Bingham

Biography

George Washington Bingham was born in 1753 in PA. His parents were William Bingham and Mary Bingham.

George married Louisa Bingham. Together they had the following children:

• Henry Vest Bingham;
• Rhoda Bingham;
• Joseph Bingham;
• Elizabeth Betsy Bingham;
• Rhoda Bingham;
• Mary Polly Bingham;
• Mariah Bingham;
• Josiah Joseph Bingham;
• Mildred Milly Bingham;
• John Bingham;
• Rebecca Bingham.

He died on August 4, 1829, in Greene Co, VA, and was buried after August 4, 1829, in Portsmouth, Portsmouth City, Virginia, United States of America.

Artist, George Caleb Bingham[Capt. George Caleb Bingham, USA] named for his paternal grandfather, George Washington Bingham, a wheat and tobacco farmer who lived on the eastern side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The artist remembered his grandfather as “a tall and white-headed gentleman, overflowing with the milk of human kindness.” [ii] Was he?

The first known record of George Caleb Bingham’s paternal grandfather is in Hanover County, Virginia’s 1782 census: George Bingham, a household of two. Those two people were George, 29, a veteran of the Revolutionary War, and his bride, the former Louisa Vest, 21, who was pregnant at the time. A few months later, Henry Vest Bingham, George Caleb Bingham’s father, was born. He was the first of eight children: six girls, Elizabeth, Rhoda, Mariah, Rebecca, Mildred, Maria, and a boy, John. The children grew up surrounded by cousins, uncles, aunts, and probably, grandparents. In that 1782 census, on the line below George Bingham, the census taker wrote, “John Bingham” with a household of six. Two lines above were the name Josias Bingham, a household of seven; one slave.[iii]

References: Note: Bingham or Trigg lineage Family members that may have artwork painted by George Bingham may want contact Patricia Moss[http://www.patriciamossart.com/george-washington-bingham/] Suzan Martin

• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Nov 28 2019, 13:06:08 UTC

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