Biography:Noah Bingham
Noah Bingham
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Given name: | Noah |
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Family name: | Bingham |
Place of birth: | Harlan County, Kentucky |
Place of death: | Harlan County |
Year of birth: | 1850 |
Year of death: | 1930 |
Profile: | Musician |
Source of information: | https://sites.rootsweb.com/~charlotteamiller/my david taylor family tree.htm |
Biographical notes
Noah Bingham was born in 1850 and married Deborah Miracle (b. 1857), but although both were born in Harlan County they were married in 1877 in Middlesboro, Bell County, Ky., where they lived much of the rest of their lives. Noah died in in 1930 in Harlan County, and Deborah in 1932, in Calvin, Bell County. They had thirteen children (including their youngest, fiddler Estill Bingham, 1898-1990); a daughter named America, also married (at age 24) a member of her mother's family, Sampson Miracle of Bell County, thus becoming America Miracle. She too, had thirteen children. Estill learned some of his repertory from Noah.