Biography:Noah Bingham

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Noah Bingham


     
 Given name:     Noah
 Middle name:     
 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.