Frederich BINKLEY, Binkele Binckele b. 15 Feb 1774 Bethania, Forsyth, North Carolina, United States d. 17 Sep 1857 Hermitage, Davidson, Tennessee, United States: Our Family History

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1774 - 1857 (83 years)

Name	Frederich BINKLEY [1, 2]
Suffix	Binkele Binckele
Birth	15 Feb 1774	Bethania, Forsyth, North Carolina, United States [1, 2, 3]
Gender	Male
FamilySearch ID	29WW-FV4
Name	Frederick Binckele [3]
Name	Frederick Binkley [4]
Residence	1850	Davidson county, part of, Davidson, Tennessee, United States [3]
_UID	CAEAEE74EF2A483895EC5319C0572D6E4E60
Death	17 Sep 1857	Hermitage, Davidson, Tennessee, United States [1, 2, 3]
Burial	18 Sep 1857	Mount Juliet Memorial Garden, Wilson, Tennessee, United States [3]
Person ID	I26539	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
Last Modified	1 Jan 2025

Father	Joannes Christian BINKLEY, b. 26 Mar 1743, Codorus, York, Pennsylvania, United States d. 28 Jun 1801, 13th Civil District, Robertson, Tennessee, United States (Age 58 years)
Mother	Johannah Jacobine LEEDY, b. Sep 1744, Conestoga, Conestoga Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America d. 28 Apr 1801, Wachovia, Forsyth, North Carolina, United States (Age ~ 56 years)
Marriage	1 Dec 1762	York, Pennsylvania, British America
Family ID	F536734359	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Adeline SHACKLEFORD, b. 17 May 1789, Kentucky d. 15 Sep 1868, Hermitage, Davidson, Tennessee, United States (Age 79 years)

Marriage 21 Dec 1804 Davidson, Tennessee

Children

	1. Henry John BINKLEY, b. 10 Feb 1806, Hermitage, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States d. 21 Feb 1893, Dickson County, Tennessee, United States (Age 87 years)
	2. John Henry BINKLEY, b. 16 Sep 1807, Hermitage, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States d. 21 Jul 1848, Davidson, Tennessee, United States (Age 40 years)
	3. William Blackman BINKLEY, b. 11 May 1809, Hermitage, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States d. 18 Sep 1898, Hermitage, Davidson, Tennessee, United States (Age 89 years)
	4. Joseph Shackelford BINKLEY, b. 18 Nov 1810, Davidson, Tennessee, United States d. 21 Aug 1887, Dickson, Tennessee, United States (Age 76 years)
	5. Franklin Carter BINKLEY, b. 19 Oct 1812, Hermitage, Davidson, Tennessee, United States d. 2 Apr 1895, Stringtown, Marshall, Kentucky, United States (Age 82 years)
	6. Frederick Marshall BINKLEY, b. 17 Jan 1815, Hermitage, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States d. 15 Jul 1884, Dickson, Tennessee, United States (Age 69 years)
	7. Andrew P BINKLEY, b. 10 Oct 1816, Davidson, Tennessee, United States d. 19 Nov 1821, Davidson, Tennessee, United States (Age 5 years)
	8. Benjamin Franklin BINKLEY, b. 10 Mar 1818, Davidson, Tennessee d. 2 Apr 1895, Iola, Marshall, Kentucky (Age 77 years)
	9. Nancy L BINKLEY, b. 22 Aug 1818, Davidson, Tennessee, United States d. 24 Aug 1868 (Age 50 years)
	10. Almeda S BINKLEY, b. 4 Aug 1820, Davidson, Tennessee, United States d. 28 Jul 1907, Enfield, White, Illinois, United States (Age 86 years)
	11. Robert Foster BINKLEY, b. 7 Feb 1822, Davidson, Tennessee, United States d. 12 Feb 1860, Davidson, Tennessee, United States (Age 38 years)
	12. James Guthrie BINKLEY, b. 4 Feb 1824, Hermitage, Davidson, Tennessee, United States d. Between 1880 and 1900 (Age 55 years)
	13. Jasper Newton BINKLEY, b. 4 Jan 1826, Davidson, Tennessee, United States d. 10 Dec 1895, Colorado, Texas, United States (Age 69 years)
	14. Sarah B “Sally” BINKLEY, b. 10 Jul 1828, Hermitage, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States d. 1 Jun 1909, New Salem, Crittenden, Kentucky, United States (Age 80 years)
	15. Martin D. BINKLEY, b. 22 Feb 1831, Hermitage, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States d. 25 Jan 1879 (Age 47 years)

Family ID F536732501 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 22 Dec 2024

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Frederic Binkley

Notes

Tombstone varifies name, birth and deat dates. Adeline's tombstone varifies marriage.

Will from Frederick Binkley:
I will and direct that my son Franklin C. Binkley shall account to my executor at the final division of my estate for the sum of thirty dollars which I sent him while he was in the state of Arkansas and also for twenty dollars [?] money sent him by my son William B. Binkley at my request which last mentioned sum I direct that my Executor shall pay to William B. Binkley in addition to his distributive share of my estate and that none of my other children shall be required to account for any advancement of money or property made to them in my lifetime.

*FIND A GRAVE- Memorial # 6495499 reads: Birth Feb 15, 1774 North Carolina, USA Died Sep 15, 1857 Davidson County, Tennessee, USA. Frederick Binkley, son of John and Johanna Leedy Binkley, born in North Carolina, Feb 15, 1774, died Sep 18, 1857, married Dec 24, 1804 to Adeline Shackleford, daughter of Roger and Nancy Carter Shackleford. Burial Mount Juliet Memorial Gardens. Mount Juliet, Wilson, Tennseess, USA. He must have died on their farm. but buried here. Earlier we had born 12 Feb 1774. headstone is 15 Feb 1774.

www,binkley tarpley.com-Ancestors by Sara Binkley Tarpley [copyright 2003-2005]
About 1790 a sixteen -year-old boy travelled westward with his uncle's family. He left behind him his own family and the order of a Moravian community. Ahead of him lay the unknown and the wilderness of the territory then called the Cumberland. In his new home he would rub elbows with the leaders of the fledgling state of Tennessee. He would become a prosperous farmer and the father of a large and active family. His name was Frederick Binkley.

Frederick was born on Feb 12, 1774, in the Moravian farming community of Bethania, North Carolina, the sixth of the twelve children of Johannes Binckele and Johanna Jacobina Leedy. Nothing is known of Fredereick's childhood. Both family oral tradition and written records indicate that he came to Tennessee with his uncle Adam Binkley. Not long after his arrival, he made the acquaintance of some of the area's first and most prominent citizens. In 1791 the city of Nashville sold what the late Tennessee historian Park Marshall described as the city's "first public utility." The "utility" was a salt spring that had provided vital salt for the fledgling community but which had ceased producing. Judge John McNairy purchased the tract that contained the spring, believing that if he dug deeply enough he would find the subterranean source of the spring and would profit from the sale of salt. To this end he hired thrity-six-year old Henry Guthrie, s signed of Nashville's first governing document, the Cumberland Compact, and seventeen-year-old Frederick Binkley. Although the two dug over 160 feet, they found only sulphur water; and McNairy abandoned the project.

In 1799 John Overton, attorney, judge, land speculator, and friend of Andrew Jackson [with whom he fonded the city of Memphis] hired Frederick and another carpenter, David Cummins, to build the home later known as Travellers Rest. [At the time of the house's construction, the site was dubbed "Golgotha" because of the number of Native American skeletons that were found there.] The complicated agreement between Overton and the two men is described in MORE LANDMARKS OF TENNESSEE HISTORY, edited by Robert M McBride:
Overton agree to sell to two carpenters, David Cumming and Frederick Pinkley, 320 acres of land on Stone's River for two dollars an acre. The carpenters were to pay for the land in 'Carpentry and Joiners Work.' which was to be judged by three other carpenters, who were to "calculate" the value of the work done in money or actual cash. . ' Overton agreed to have the lumber hauled to the site and to feed the two carpenters but notrto do their laundry! The carpenters were to hew the corner posts, wills, sleepers, and other heavy timbers and to frame the house; they were to receive $45 in cash when the roof was completed, but this payment was to be charged against the cost of the land on Stone's River.
On August 5, 1801, Frederick recroded his deed for the highly desirable land. In his ninettenth-century History of Davidson County, Tenn. W.W. Clayton worte, "The Hermitage neighborhood was regarded as the best section of Davidson County, the soil being better adapted for cotton than any other part of the county, and was settled by wealthy men and cotton-planters." Among Frederick's new neighbors were the future president Andrew Jackson and his wife's relatives, the Donelsons. Although Frederick became prosperous, he was never really wealthy. He may indeed have been a cotton planter. By 1820 he owned two slaves; by 1850 he owned ten.
On Christmas Eve 1804 the thirty-year-old Frederick married fifteen year old Adeline Shackleford, daughter of Roger Shackleford and the late Nancy Carter. David Cummins served as bondsman. How Frederick met Adeline, who was born in Madison Co. Kentucky, is not known. Perhaps they met through Frederick's old acquaintance Henry Guthrie, who had married Adeline's older sister Nancy Ann in Madison Co. on Nov 24, 1796.
It was probably around the time of his marriage that Frederick build a log house on his property. And like many new homeowners, he soon found himself with money problems. On Oct 16, 1809, Frederick signed a note to the firm of Deaderick and Somerville for $110.84, promising to repay them three days later. When he defaulted, Deaderick and Somerville sued, with the case being heard on Jan 15, 1810. Frederick's lawyer Jessie Wharton sought and obtained what the court record describes as "Sundry continuances," until finally the case was settled on Oct 20, 1810. The jury found in favor of Deadrick & Somerville and awarded them the original amount plus damages of $6.65 and costs. [Deadrick & Somerville had asked for damages of $60.] Frederick either could no or would no pay Deaderick & Somerville. The Dec. 7 ,1810, edition of the Democratic Clarion and Tennessee Gazette carried this notice:
On the 19th of January next in the town of Nashville, there will be a public sale directed by the Davidson Co. court of 320 acres, that belong to Frederick Pinkley. The property was attached by Deaderick & Somerville M.C. Dunn."
The threat of their land's sale must have struck terror to the hearats of Frederick and Adeline, By Dec. 1810 the log house was home not just ot them but also to four small boys: four year old Henry John, three year old John Henry, nineteen month old William Blackman, and the newborn Joseph Shackleford. The records do not tell us why Frederick incurred the deb, nor do they record his payment of it; but the prospect of losing his land had the desired effect. He evidently paid Deaderick and Somerveille, the sale did not take place.
By 1820 Frederick was advancing toward a place in the middle socioeconomic tier of his neighborhood in the Fourth Civil District of Davidson County. And although he continued his association with prominent citizens, it was still as a contractor rather than an equal. Among the papers of his neighbor Andrew Jackson is a receipt, dated May 1, 1817, for the construction of a carriage house. Frederick may have worked as a carpenter for others as well; we know of his work for Jackson only because of Jackson's prominence.
Whatever the sources of Frederick's income during this period, his family continued to grow. Eventually there would be 11 sons and 3 daughters. In an age when childhood death was frequent, the Frederick Binkley family seems to have been uncommonly healthy. In 1821, the seventh child, five year old Andrew, died and was buried in the family graveyard on a hill behind the log house. His grave was the first of the marked graves. Andrew was the only one of Frederick and Adeline's children to die before adulthood.
While Frederick and Adeline's family was growing, her father, Roger Shackleford, and her stepmother, Sally Laird, joined a sect that prohibited reproduction, the Shakers. On July 10, 1813, Roger, Sally , their sons Zachariah, Montgomery, Barney and Hudson, and a fifth unnamed child, possibly a daughter, arrived at the Shaker community at South Union, Logan County, Kentucky. What Adeline and Frederick thought of their conversion is unknown; but one can imagine that they might have met it with perplexity, sonsternation. or disapproval. Roger and Sally continued as members of the South Union Shakers until their deaths in 1825.
By 1850 nine of the surviving thirteen children were married. However, not all the marriages had been made in Heaven. With a little imagination we can picture the bedtime conversations that Frederick and Adeline, living in an age when divorce was rare, must have had about their daughter Sarah and her husband Alfred Bass. Married on Aug 12, 1847, Alfred and Sarah had a son JOhn Frederick in 1848. However, in 1849 Alfred had gone to Yazoc County, Mississippi, where he had become the overseer on a physician's plantation. Sarah and little John remianed in Tennessee, living with her parents. Did Alfred abandon Sarah, as she would later charge in court, or did she refuse to move to Mississippi with him? There is no way that we can known. However, in 1851 she filed for divorce, charging "Wilful and Malicious desertion;" and on June 13, 1854, the Davidson County Chancery Court granted Sarah the divorce. A little more than three years later, in Oct 1857, Alfred had returned to Tennessee; and the couple were remarried.
The children were moving away, too. By 1850 four sons and a daughter were living in surrounding counties. Eventually children would move into other states- Kentucky, Illinois, and Texas. One son, Franklin Carter was in Arkansas for a time, probably between 1850-1860. He borrowed money from both his father and his older brother William during this adventure; in his 1857 will Frederick wrote:
I will and direct that my son Franklin C. Binkley shall account to my executor at the final division of my estate for the sum of thirty dollars which I sent him while he was in the state of Arkansas and also for twenty dollars[? money sent him by my son William B. Binkley at my request which last mention sum I direct that my Executor shall pay to William B.Binkley in addition to his distributive share of my estate and that none of my other children shall be required to account for any advancement of money or property made to them in my lifetime.
Frederick seesm to have been less than happy with Franklin's handling

Sources

[S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 15 Nov 2024), entry for Johann Adam BINKLEY (BINCKELE), person ID LVQN-3R4. (Reliability: 3).
[S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 8 Dec 2024), entry for Johann Adam BINKLEY (BINCKELE), person ID LVQN-3R4. (Reliability: 3).
[S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 15 Nov 2024), entry for Frederic BINKLEY, person ID 29WW-FV4. (Reliability: 3).
[S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 15 Nov 2024), entry for Frederich BINKLEY, person ID MLFZ-18D. (Reliability: 3).