In a message dated 4/18/99 10:41:58 PM Central Daylight Time, blessedb@Bellsouth.net writes: > >To Mr. and Mrs. Binkley were born these children: Isabel J. B., Martha >A., > Mildred M. and William M. Mildred died May 15, 1879. Our subject >and wife > are members of the Christian Church and he is a Republican. >His parents were > Blackstone and Rebecca (Felts) Binkley. They were born >in Tennessee and > North Carolina in 1804 and 1807, respectively, and >were married in 1825. > November 10, 1863, the father was taken from home >by guerrillas and shot > dead. Lori, I too have puzzled over the guerrilla incident. But look what it says just above it--that Alexander Binkley was a Republican. I think I am safe in saying that it this period of time most Southerners were Democrats. After all, the Republican Party was the party of Lincoln. My suspicion is that Blackstone Frederick Binkley was a Northern sympathizer during the War and that he was killed by Rebel guerrillas, not by members of the regular Confederate Army. This is just my hunch. It looks as if these men were very courageous in their beliefs, and one of them paid with his life. I think that most of the Binkleys were not slaveholders. My own second great-grandfather, Frederick Binkley of Davidson County (Blackstone Frederick Binkley's first cousin once removed), did own slaves, and I believe that most of the other Binkleys in Middle Tenn. who owned slaves were his children. <Do you think people could mean.."of German descent" since Christian Binkley's wives were German?> I don't have it in front of me, but I believe there is at least one published work that states that another Blackstone Binkley and his brother Jackson were from Germany. I know that this has confused some people. Sara Binkley Tarpley