Married 28 Sep 1851 Liberty Church in Dinsmore, Newton, Arkansas to Rachel Ann Phillips.

Plez fought in the Civil War on the Confederate side and, when home, he was captured. He already had a cold. Rachel followed them for 3 days, wading creeks and whatever. One night while the Union soldiers were asleep, they had tied Plez and two other Confederate soldiers to a tree. Rachel untied them and they escaped. The Union soldiers didn't try to find them. Plez returned home with pneumonia which he died from. When Plez died, Rachel had to leave home to do washing to earn money to support her children. She left them with one of their Aunts to care for them. The Aunt was mean to them when Rachel wasn't there. Rachel paid the Aunt for caring for the children. She would also give the kids some money and, as soon as she was gone, the Aunt would make the kids give her the money. Rachel died before her children were grown. When the Aunt got old, one of the girls took her in and kept her until she died. The other kids wouldn't take care of her because she had been so mean to them. The Aunt was big and fat and didn't have any kids of her own.
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Pleasant B. BYNUM
Sex: M
Birth: 17 MAY 1832 in White County, TN
Death: AUG 1863 in Newton County, AR
Burial: Buried at Witter, Madison Co., AR
Event: Military Confederate Civil War Veteran - Co. F, 3rd Reg. Ark. Inf. Vol.-Capt. Hiram Moore
Event: Census 1 1850 Newton Co, AR Census
Event: Census 2 1860 Census - Osage Township

Note:
Cemetery is probably called Bolinger Cemetery at Witter, Madison County, AR.

On old Hoy Haught place off HW 23

This cemetery is located in the NE Quarter of the NW Quarter, Section 24, Township 15, Range 26, and is located within 200 feet of State Highway #23.

Father: James BYNUM b: 1790 in Lincoln Co., North Carolina
Mother: Betsy BEALE b: 1794 in North Carolina

Marriage 1 Rachel Ann PHILLIPS b: SEP 1833 in Nashville, TN
Married: 28 SEP 1851 in Probably near Kingston, AR at Liberty Baptist Church

Children
James Monroe (Jim) BINAM b: 17 AUG 1852 in Osage Township, Newton Co, AR
Nancy Jane BINAM b: 4 FEB 1854 in Newton County, AR
Margaret Elizabeth (Martha) BINAM b: 7 NOV 1857
Isaac R. BYNUM b: 23 JUL 1860 in Newton Co, AR
Jasper B. BINAM b: 20 NOV 1864 in Dry Fork, Newton County, AR
Lottie BINAM b: UNKNOWN
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I would like to offer a few thoughts about the site of Pleasant Bynum. Don't know where this information is coming from - but, I can guess!

I was surprised to find Pleasant in FAG.

1. I speculated 35 years ago that he was born in White County, TN but there has never been any evidence to that fact. The family was told by his wife, Rachel Ann Phillips, that she was born near Nashville but Pleasant was long dead before this was written down.

2. Researchers have been speculating for years on where he was buried. I always thought he was probably buried where he died - on their farm in Newton County. I do recall a long time ago that one of his grandchildren did suggest that he was buried in the Witter Cemetery near "where his father was buried". It seemed illogical to me that they would have hauled his body all those miles while there was a war going on, just to bury him in Madison County. I was unaware that anyone actually found a grave site for him. Sure would like to see a photo of that grave site.

3. His mother was likely Betsy Beale but we have no evidence of that. We only know that John and Betsy were married in NC in 1809. That was the last mention of Betsy by name. When John was enumerated in Arkansas in 1850, his wife's name was Elizabeth _____.

4. Pleasant and Rachel only had 5 known children. James Monroe Binam 17 Aug 1851, Nancy Jane Binam 4 Feb 1854, Margaret E. Binam, Isaac R. Bynum 23 Jul 1860, and Jasper B. Binam 20 Nov 1862. There was no Lottie Bynum/Binam.

Hate to be picky about all this but this website will be around long after I'm gone and I'd really like for it to be correct.

Gary Binam

PS. Pleasant was my great, great grandfather.
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