Bingham Cemetery – Benjamin Bingham

Benjamin Bingham grave marker

Benjamin Bingham. Born 1755. Died 1835, Blount County, Tennessee.

Service: Private, Virginia Militia.

Bingham was listed on the 1832 pension list for Blount County, National Archives File S-3277. He married ___ Dulany. A government marker was obtained and placed by the Mary Blount Chapter in 1976. One of his daughters married William Isles.

Bingham cemetery is located on the old Isles farm, now the E. R. Tarwater farm, in Loudon County, Tennessee located east of Pine Grove Church near Greenback, Tennessee. Travel to the site was difficult, requiring a wait until the first freeze to actually locate the gravestones. The property owners were kind enough to provide transport through their property. There are about 15-20 graves with four or five marked with legible stones.