Sherry from "The Kansas City STAR", Saturday, September 20, 1890, Vol. 11, No. 3, page 2, column 2 Mrs. Martha BINGHAM Dead One of the Oldest Residents of the City - The Funeral Services Mrs. Martha A. BINGHAM, one of the oldest residents of the city, died at 7 o'clock this morning at the Washington hotel. She was in her 67th year, having been born in Shelbyville, Ky., January 24, 1824. Mrs. BINGHAM on Tuesday underwent an operation for removal of a tumor. The operation was successfully performed and she was progressing favorably on her way to recovery, when an old stomach disorder, said to be hereditary, manifested itself and she became unable to administer her food and died from want of nutrition. Mrs. BINGHAM was a lineal descendant of Philip LIVINGSTON, on of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and a second cousin to General Stonewall JACKSON. She was married in October, 1851 to the late Dr. Johnson LYKINS of this city. At the time of her marriage Miss LIVINGSTON lived at Lexington, Lafayette county. She came to Kansas City with her husband and has since lived here. Dr. LYKINS died August 15, 1876, in the seventy-seventh year of his age. Mrs. LYKINS was married in 1878 to General George C. BINGHAM, one of the most noted portrait and landscape painters in the South and West. General BINGHAM had also been adjutant general of the state. He died in 1879. Mrs. BINGHAM left no children of her own. Her stepson, Captain Rollins BINGHAM, survives her. The funeral services will be held at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Unitarian church on Tenth, between Broadway and Washington. Interment will be made in Union cemetery. There is a biographical sketch of her in "The History of Jackson County, Missouri, ....." Johnson County Kansas Central resource Library, Call number "977.841 History 1881", on page 741. It does state that her parents died when she was three years old, and that she was raised by her grandmother. It also has the marriage dates to both of her husbands. Let me know if you would like a photocopy of it. And in "Vital Historical Records of Jackson County Missouri, 1826-1876", by the Kansas City Chapter of the DAR, 1933 - 1934...there is an index of burials on Union Cemetery BINGHAM, George C. (Captain) b. Mar. 20, 1811 d. July 7, 1879 (footnoted as famous painter) BINGHAM, Henry W. b. 1847 d. Nov 8, 1868 BINGHAM, Mattie L. b. 1824 d. 1890 ( I think this is Martha, based on the dates, and the fact that the above mentioned biography is for a "Mrs. Mattie L BINGHAM") LYKINS, Dr. b Apr 15, 1800 d. Aug 15, 1876 (Mayor 1854) Dave Goldy Overland Park, KS davegoldy@swbell.net