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This Week's Birthdays
Coming Soon....Birthday Announcements
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Current News
2011 Bynum-Garig Family Reunion
UPDATE
The 2011 Bynum-Garig Family Reunion is being planned for July
8-10, 2011. The reunion fee of $50 per adult 18 and older is due by April 15, 2011. Please pay as soon as possible
so we can properly plan a great event. Also, please order your family T-shirts. Shirt prices are $5.00 for youth sizes XS-XL; $10.00 for Adult sizes
XS to XL; and $12.00 for Adult sizes 2XL and larger.
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Recent News
Bynum-Garig Scholarship Fund
The scholarship fund was kicked off at the reunion on Friday night. We
raised $124.00 in our first fund-raising effort ($119.50 with the 50/50 raffle +
$4.50 in donations). Scholarship committee members will be announced soon,
so put on your thinking caps and help suggest ways we can increase the fund to
help our students. You are encouraged to volunteer your time for this
committee.
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The Bynum Ancestry
The Bynum family’s genealogical research is in progress. The family line has
been traced back to the birth of our great-great grandfather, Miles Bynum, Sr.
(b. 1810). A complete review of our genealogy will be presented at the family
reunion banquet on September 5, 2009.
Charles "Manny" Bynum
Charles Bynum (b. 1877) , nicknamed “Manny” was the eldest child of 14 children born to Charles Ed Bynum (b. 1844) and Rebecca Gibson (b. 1855). He was married to Mary Garig
(b. 1889). The upcoming reunion in September, 2009, is a gathering of the descendents of their eight children: Edna Bynum Spriggs (b. 1910), Elmon Bynum, Sr., (b. 1912), Thaddeus Bynum, Sr., (b. 1915),
Houston Bynum (b. 1917), Ethel Bynum Stallard (b. 1919), Blanche Bynum (b. 1921), Charles Bynum, Sr., (b. 1924), Mary Bynum Williams (b. 1925), and Rebecca Bynum Crockett (b. 1929).
Mary Garig
Mary Garig (b. 1891) was the second child born to Octave Garig (b. 1869) and Martha Jameson (b. 1871).
Martha Jameson had a twin sister, Mary.
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September 4-6, 2009 in Brusly, Louisiana.
Obituaries of recent family deaths.
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