George Bingaman is the son of Johannes and Anna Kerstetter Bingaman and was born Nov 11, 1803.
He married Margaret Sarber in 1825 and the Bingaman family consisting of seven children, left Lower Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania in big covered wagons, and arrived in Chambers Grove, Lima Township, Carroll County, Illinois May, 1841. George and Margaret had three more children before George's death in 1847 at age 44. Hunters, mistaking his coonskin cap for a squirrel, and hearing his horse, shot him.
George's father, John, was a "Hessian" soldier hired by the British during the Revolutionary war. He was captured by George Washington Christmas night at Trenton, a battle commemorated by the famous painting Washington Crossing the Delaware. John settled in Northumberland County Pennsylvania around 1790.
He married Margaret Sarber in 1825 and the Bingaman family consisting of seven children, left Lower Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania in big covered wagons, and arrived in Chambers Grove, Lima Township, Carroll County, Illinois May, 1841. George and Margaret had three more children before George's death in 1847 at age 44. Hunters, mistaking his coonskin cap for a squirrel, and hearing his horse, shot him.
George's father, John, was a "Hessian" soldier hired by the British during the Revolutionary war. He was captured by George Washington Christmas night at Trenton, a battle commemorated by the famous painting Washington Crossing the Delaware. John settled in Northumberland County Pennsylvania around 1790.
George Bingaman is the son of Johannes and Anna Kerstetter Bingaman and was born Nov 11, 1803.
He married Margaret Sarber in 1825 and the Bingaman family consisting of seven children, left Lower Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania in big covered wagons, and arrived in Chambers Grove, Lima Township, Carroll County, Illinois May, 1841. George and Margaret had three more children before George's death in 1847 at age 44. Hunters, mistaking his coonskin cap for a squirrel, and hearing his horse, shot him.
George's father, John, was a "Hessian" soldier hired by the British during the Revolutionary war. He was captured by George Washington Christmas night at Trenton, a battle commemorated by the famous painting Washington Crossing the Delaware. John settled in Northumberland County Pennsylvania around 1790.
He married Margaret Sarber in 1825 and the Bingaman family consisting of seven children, left Lower Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania in big covered wagons, and arrived in Chambers Grove, Lima Township, Carroll County, Illinois May, 1841. George and Margaret had three more children before George's death in 1847 at age 44. Hunters, mistaking his coonskin cap for a squirrel, and hearing his horse, shot him.
George's father, John, was a "Hessian" soldier hired by the British during the Revolutionary war. He was captured by George Washington Christmas night at Trenton, a battle commemorated by the famous painting Washington Crossing the Delaware. John settled in Northumberland County Pennsylvania around 1790.
Bio by: Dennis Lawrence
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