In 1861, after the outbreak of the War Between the States Lum Bingham joined the Burnet Guards, leaving wife with two young sons to care for. After the death of Lum's sister, Eveline Foster, Jane took little Ollie Foster as her own, and with the help of two elderly black people, Jack and Mandy Spencer, managed the farm and battled the Indians while Lum was away. His duty during the war was to deliver food to the troops, and his pay was .25 cents a day with feed for his team.
Lum and Jane's children were:
Nehemiah, born 1859 Burnet County.
Thomas Reuben, born 1861 Burnet County
Washburn, born either c. 1863 or in 1867 Burnet County
Lawrence, born March 4, 1869, in Burnet County
Layton, born 1871 at the Sugg farm in Tennessee while Jane was there on a visit for settlement of the estate of her father after his death. After Layton's birth, Jane returned with him to Burnet County and died on the night they arrived back home, leaving four motherles boys.
Lum later was married to Isabell Arlege (Aldredge) and they had four children, all born in Burnet County:
Grace, born Janueary 5, 1885
John
Nellie, born November 9, 1889
"Burnet County History" Vol. II, (contributed by my great-aunt, Lottie Bingham Shutz)....
Note on C. C. Bingham C.S.A. marker....
On September 5, 1965 Lottie Bingham Schutz, and two of her brothers, Charles, and Jim Bingham put a Civil War marker in the center of the old (Bingham) pen, because they had no idea where Columbus Bingham's grave was. [Referring to the enclosure for Bingham family graves at the Old Burnet Cemetery in Burnet, TX.]
Submitted by Mary Jo Fraley
The General Store
Texans in the Civil War