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Julia Maria <I>Murray</I> Bingaman

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Julia Maria Murray Bingaman

Birth
Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
1822 (aged 30–31)
Adams County, Mississippi, USA
Burial
Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, USA Add to Map
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Daughter of Rev. John Murray and Judith Sargent. Her parents were prominent early Universalists; her mother was a renowned author and early women's rights activist.

Wife of Adam Lewis Bingaman, Sr.

Mother of Charlotte Bingaman and Adam Lewis Bingaman, Jr. Julia died several months after giving birth to her son Adam.

Abstract from "Reminiscences of Lucius Manlius Sargent", compiled by John Hannibal Sheppard (1871); p. 30
"...Julia Maria, married to Adam Lewis BINGAMAN about 1812, the year he graduated H. C. [Harvard College]. They had a daughter, Charlotte, who died at Natchez, and a son, Adam Lewis, who married Miss LIVINGSTON. When in Jan[uary] 1824, Mr. L. M. SARGENT was at Natchez, he saw with melancholy feelings the three graves on Mr. BINGAMAN’s plantation, side by side—Mrs. Judith MURRAY, Julia Maria B[INGAMAN], and a granddaughter Charlotte [BINGAMAN]."
Daughter of Rev. John Murray and Judith Sargent. Her parents were prominent early Universalists; her mother was a renowned author and early women's rights activist.

Wife of Adam Lewis Bingaman, Sr.

Mother of Charlotte Bingaman and Adam Lewis Bingaman, Jr. Julia died several months after giving birth to her son Adam.

Abstract from "Reminiscences of Lucius Manlius Sargent", compiled by John Hannibal Sheppard (1871); p. 30
"...Julia Maria, married to Adam Lewis BINGAMAN about 1812, the year he graduated H. C. [Harvard College]. They had a daughter, Charlotte, who died at Natchez, and a son, Adam Lewis, who married Miss LIVINGSTON. When in Jan[uary] 1824, Mr. L. M. SARGENT was at Natchez, he saw with melancholy feelings the three graves on Mr. BINGAMAN’s plantation, side by side—Mrs. Judith MURRAY, Julia Maria B[INGAMAN], and a granddaughter Charlotte [BINGAMAN]."

Gravesite Details

She is, according to an eyewitness account in 1824, buried alongside her mother and daughter who both died in 1820. Should her marker still exist, its inscription has been worn away by time and elements.



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