ENSLAVER-Bynum
Bynum, John A.- white resident among the Chickasaws, was born about 1790 and may have lived In Maury County, Tennessee, In 1820. He married Tennessee Colbert, a daughter of Major James Colbert, about 1822. She was baptized into Monroe Church, near Pontotoc, Mississippi, as Tennessee Bynum on December 4, 1824. Their two were baptized on December 19 of the same year.(1). John was a delegate Washington in 1833 and was appointed U.S. Postmaster at Pontotoc, Mississippi, in 1835 (2). He died early in 1836, for he made a will n Pontotoc County on January 21, which was proved on February 24. Thomas Colbert and William O. Bynum were named executors (3). Tennessee sold S15 and 16 T11, R3E in Pontotoc County on April 4, 1836 (4) She was dismissed from Monroe Church preparatory to removing west on September 16, 1837, sold S10 T11, R3E (5), and journeyed to the Indian Territory aboard the steamboat FOX in November, 1837 (6). In 1839 her household consisted of one male 10—20, one female 10—20, and one female 20—50, plus 15 slaves. In 1847, her family included a male under 18 and a female over 16. She was a resident of the Chickasaw District in 1855, with persons named Ross and Mary Celiffy In her household.
John and Tennessee had three children— Turner, Elizabeth, and John, the latter mentioned
only in his father’s will. From Turner’s name, It appears that .John A. Bynum
was a member of the Bynum family that originated in England and settled in Virginia, Records show that Simon Turner made a will in Southampton County, Va., July 7, 1762, leaving property to the children of his daughter,
Jennette Bynum, namely Turner, Milley, Benne, and Sugars Bynum (7). Michael Bynum
made a will in the same county on August 2, 1773, leaving his property to his brothers——Benjamin and William—— and to his nephew, Turner
Bynum (8). Turner Bynum was surety for Sugars Bynum in Greenville County, Va., on March 27, 1789, and was a witness to William Bynum’s
marriage there on December Z5, 174 (9). He was living in Greensville County In 1790. Creek historian Thomas S. l4oodward met Colonel Turner
Bynum, a Revolutionary War veteran, on the Tombigbee River in 1815. Colonel Bynum was the
father of Jesse Atherton Bynum (1797—1868), later a Congressman from North Carolina (10). There was also Luke Bynum, a native of England, who was the father of Mark
Bynum (born Va.; died Chatham County, N.C., whose sons Joseph (1802—1870) and Turner (1808—1864), settled in present Alcorn County, Mississippi, in the 1870s, Luke Bynum was a brother to
Tapley and Green Bynum (11). The 1820 Maury County, TN., census shows Luke, John,
Tapley, Mark, and William Bynum there. In 1830 Turner Bynum, age 26-45, was a resident of nearby Giles County.
(1)Winston, FATHER STUART, 21.
(2)Oakiey, 15.
(3 Will Book 1:16, Monroe County, Ms.; MSGENX, 3:31.
(4 Deed Book 1:375, Pontotoc County, Ms.
(5)Ibid., 2:192. Tennessee was on the 1859—1860 annuity rolls.
(6)Finan, A TRAVELER IU INDIAN TERRITORY, 253.
(7)Chaprnan, 39.
(8)Ibid, 108.
(9)r, 11. (10)T.S. Woodward, 153.
(l1) Goodspeed, HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF MISSISSIPPI, 478-481.
Source: WHO WAS WHO AMONG THE • SOUTHERN INDIANS a genealogical notebook,
1698-1907
by Don Martini ©1998. Don Martini Falkner, Ms.