John was the son of Captain John A Bingham and Deborah Phipps.

John married Elizabeth Woolum, 24 Dec 1811 in Knox Co KY. They had 12 children that I know of.

John married Lucinda "Sindy" Carnes, 27 Nov 1855 in Knox Co KY. They had 10 children that I know of.

Per Steve Bingham's "Book", "John BINGHAM first appears on the Knox Co. KY Tax List in 1811. The 1819 Harlan Co., KY Tax List shows John owned 50 acrea at the mouth of Brownies Creek, part of a survey in the name of Edward WEST. August 4, 1818, John purchased 100 acres on the left fork of Straight Creek from Archillis SNEED. About 1820, John moved from the Brownies Creek area to Straight Creek. While living on Straight Creek, John purchased an additional 537 acres of land in several separate transactions. Abt. 1828, he purchased 1600 acres of land on Stinking Creek in Knox Co., KY - - 900 acres from Michail JACKSON and 700 acres from James STEWART. Soon after the purchase, John moved to the Stinking Creek area. The 1830 Knox Co. Fed. Census listes John, wife Elizabeth, a son and daughter and "one" unidentified "female", 16 to 26 years of age. John built his first home at the mouth of Roaring Fork. In 1853, Elizabeth WOOLUM BINGHAM died. Cause is unknown. Two years later, November 1855, John married Lucinda CARNES - then 23 years old. In 1856, the first of ten children were born to John and Lucinda. During his lifetime, John bought and sold several hundred acres of land. he also traded in livestock and became a very wealthy man from these transactions. All of his children, from both marriages, reaped the benefits of his wealth in gifts of land granted by their father.

Lucinda: Loucinda as far as we know, was a hot-tempered woman. So, it seems were her children. Her brother, Martin CARNES said he left Roaring Fork because it had got too mean. He said his brother, James and his sister, Cinda, had raised a "whole bunch of boys who could beat the devil". He later referred to his former home as "The Rip Roaring Fork" and the young men who got drunk and shot up the place as "The Devil's Angels". He said that when the BINGHAM and CARNES brothers rode out of Roaring Fork toward the Flat Lick Taverns, he would stand on a high rise knob and proclaim, "Look out, Flat Lick, the Devil's Angels are coming". (per K. S. Sol WARREN.)"