George Bingham

This was me, George Bingham, as a child.  I was lucky to be alive!  My grandma, Harriet Forman, left England for America on a ship with my mother, Eliza Ann, 10 years old and five of her siblings.  Cholera broke out on board and four of the six children perished except for my mother and my aunt Elizabeth.

My mother married David Bingham, an Englishman who had also come to America.  Unfortunately, mother passed away when I was only five years old leaving my father with three sons and two daughters. 

During that time, my siblings and I lived with our grandparents, Harriet and William Forman.  In 1870, my father married Mary Simpson and had two more children.

I attended the Brick school on Franklin road.  I married Alice Rust who passed away and my second wife, Clara Cox and I had three children. Life was full of tragedies.

In 1900, I built the Brick store and became a successful merchant.  James Cox was my father-in-law.