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From: Lauren Brantner <>
Subject: Re: [MDWashin] FINDING GRAVE FOR JACOB BINKLEY?????
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:37:52 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <001a01c818a1$7529bcd0$6601a8c0@toshibauser>


Bridget,
I have undiscovered gravesites for this time period in Washington County Maryland as do others on the list. Some stones just didn't make it to the 1930's when the tombstone readings occurred so the volumes have references to graves with no stones or unreadable stones. Some other burial grounds on farms may have withered away from neglect, or overgrowth, etc.

Good luck in your search.

Lauren Brantner



Bridget McCartney Rogier <> wrote: Dear Lauren,



You are so kind and giving, thank you for all your knowledge and help.



I am kind of a guru on ALL Binkleys in America. I have been doing Binkleys
since 1977 and I was born in 1933 so it is a big chunk of my life. I have
always freely helped all Binkley giving all that I knew only to reap more
back from them. :>))



We Binkleys are planning on a first great big get-together for four days 27
April 2008 in Lancaster PA. I only have two lines that I don't know out of
all the lines and both are in Washington Co., PA; one is this Jacob Binckley
that I am going to tackle first. I'm just getting started on this Jacob
Binckley of Somerset and I have six months exactly to start trying to pull
him together.



I do not feel that Henry C. Peden who wrote the Revolutionary Patriots of
Washington County Maryland was positively sure about the records of
Kinkle/Pinkley himself. So far I have not found a grave for Jacob Binckley
down in the Fairfield Co., OH area. I did find a wonderful lady, Lois
Downour, living right there in Perry Co., OH who has lists of every cemetery
in the area and knows most of the sextons right now today and there isn't a
grave for this Jacob Binckley, period. If I could find a grave I might find
a birth date.



I picked up a little history on why these Binkleys came to Funkstown.
Johannes Binkley Jr. born 1718 in Switzerland was the oldest brother of
about five brothers that came to America on the Princess Augusta in 1736
with their father Johannes Binggeli Sr. They first went to Cocalico Twp.,
Lancaster Co., PA. The son Johannes Jr. went with an uncle to Codorus Twp.,
York Co. and farmed and weaved. He bought a bunch of looms, in then
Frederick Co., but in the Washington Co. area, built a mill on the Antietam
in Funkstown in the 1760s. Later when the Revolutionary War started, he
started making uniforms for the army. All his brothers came down from around
Cumru Twp., Berks Co. PA and got into all phases of weaving with him in
Funkstown. They mentioned blue dying a lot too. Well near the end of the war
their weaving was no longer needed and better weaving processes where being
used elsewhere thus making the mill on the Antietam in Funkstown obsolete.
Those Binkleys that had not died there started to leave for government land
in Ohio.



Again, I am only just now getting started on this Jacob of Somerset and have
six months. I know all the other Washington Co., MD Binkleys now, except
just two. I'm starting with this Jacob first who I think was a son of one of
these five brothers, Philip "Jacob" Binkley Sr. Right now I'm trying to find
his grave, then a will and deeds too. Kinkle was my first hope in trying to
find a grave.



My very best regards to you, Lauren,



Bridget



----- Original Message -----
From: "Lauren Brantner"
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Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 6:42 AM
Subject: Re: [MDWashin] FINDING GRAVE FOR JACOB BINKLEY?????


Bridget,
I checked St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hagerstown records and
Kinkles were also members of that church. Jacob Kinkle was originally buried
there in the churchyard cemetery and then the cemetery was later moved to
Rose Hill. This must be now Volume 6 of the cemetery records- Vol. 7 has
some Kinkle burials, but not Jacob - 7 is a continuation of burials in
Hagerstown begun in 6. [I don't own volume 6] It is also difficult to tell
with large German families how many descendants in the same family have the
same names - there may be more than one Jacob and you'll have to sort them.
The church records indicate a Jacob and Catherine and also a Jacob and Bezi
who had a son baptized in 1809. There is an entry in Morrow & Morrow's
Marriage License Index for Jacob Jr. to Elizabeth (Bezi? or Betsy?) Miller
4/4/1807.

Could someone on the list check volume 6 for Binkley and Kinkle burials for
Bridget?

Lauren Brantner


Bridget McCartney Rogier wrote: Please could anyone
tell me who is really buried in Jacob Kinkle's grave? Could it be Jacob
Pinkley/Binkley/Binckley/etc. I am missing a grave for Jacob
Binkley/Binckley/Pinkley who died 19 July 1828



>From the book REVOLUTIONARY PATROITS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, MARYLAND
>1776-1783 by Henry C. Peden Jr. published by Willow Bend in 1999 page 198
>is the following...

KINKLE, Jacob (1745-1828). Took the Oath of Allegiance before the Hon.
Andrew Rentch before March 7, 1778 [Ref: J-15, which listed the name as
"Jacob Kinkley" and O-52, which mistakenly listed the name as Jacob
Pinkley"]. "Jacob Kinkley" died in July, 1828, aged 83, was buried in Old
St. John's Lutheran Churchyard, and subsequently reinterred in Rose Hill
Cemetery in Hagerstown [Ref: JJ-VII:106]. "Jacob Kinkley, Sr." died at an
advanced age on August 3, 1821 in Hagerstown [Ref: Z-55]. (This record might
not pertain to Jacob Binckley of Somerset but if it is wrong then we can
delete or leave showing that it is disputed. bmr)



[Ref: J-15]>>> J=Clark, B. Raymond b. Jr. Washington County, Maryland
Records: Oaths of Allegiance, 1778, and Balance Books (Distributions) on
Estates, 1778-1801 (St. Michaels, MD: Maryland Delaware Genealogy, 1989).



O-52>>> O= Hodges, Margaret Roberts. Unpublished Revolutionary Records of
Maryland, Volume 3, Oaths of Allegiance and Fidelity taken in Washington
County in 1778 (Compiled by the author circa 1939)



[Ref: JJ-VII:106]>>> JJ= Morrow, Dale W., ed. Washington County, Maryland,
Cemetery Records. Recorded by Samuel Webster Piper between 1935-1936 and
typed and presented by the Conococheague Chapter, NSDAR, of Hagerstown in
1942 (Westminster, Maryland: Family Line Publications, 1992-1994, 7 volumes



[Ref: Z-55]>>> Z= Wright, F. Edward. Marriages and Deaths from the Newspaper
of Allegany and Washington Counties, Maryland, 1820-1830 (Silver Spring,
Maryland: Family Line Publications, 1987).


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