A Register of Deaths in Sumter County, Alabama, for 1881 to 1893 (the only extant such record of deaths in the 1800s) has an entry that Eliza Binns, age 87, born in Virginia, died near Jones Bluff on December 3, 1881 of "old age". Having been given this record by a former Probate Judge of Sumter County, and having used the information from it in a book that I authored, I deposited it for safekeeping in the Alabama Room of the University of West Alabama in Livingston, Sumter County, Alabama. Jones Bluff was a village near the present town of Epes, and several black families of Binns lived there during my youth in the 1930s. A leading black of the area, Will Binn, owned and operated a store near Epes until the late 1980s or early 1990s. Joe Stegall