Colonel Bingham Trigg, (CSA)

[. [ https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/?navigation=&per...] Lancaster From Virginia to Texas - Salt Lake City ]==Biography==
Colonel Bingham Trigg was born on February 26, 1840, in Boonesville, Saline, Missouri, United States. His parents were John Anthony Trigg and Rebecca W. Trigg. His occupation: District Attorney in Bastrop County, Texas, State Senate Representative for his district, and County Attorney in Travis County, Texas. Attorney in Missouri and in Texas. They lived in Austin, Bastrop, and in Lockhart, Texas.

His portrait painted by Capt. George Caleb Bingham, USA, his first cousin, hung in the Capital of Texas until a renovation in the 1940s and at that time it was presented to his daughter, Mary "Mollie" Rebecca Lancaster (Trigg) Her oldest daughter inherited the portrait and the family has not traced who has ownership today. George Bingham visited Austin and Bingham Trigg often.

Bingham married Frances "Fannie" Russell Trigg (Field) on September 3, 1868, in Lockhart, Caldwell County, TX, United States. Together they had the following children:

• Mary "Mollie" Rebecca Lancaster (Trigg);
• Bingham Trigg, Jr;
• Julia Bingham Kleine Cauthorn;
• Frances Field Coopwood;
• Rosa Sue Flowers.

He died on May 15, 1886, in Manchaca Springs, Travis County, Texas, United States. The obituary leads us that he was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery, Travis County. Texas.

Bingham married Mary A. Trigg on August 21, 1884, in Manchaca, Travis County, TX, United States. No marriage certificate was found, nor a divorce from the first wife, but Mary A. Trigg (Moore) filed for and was approved for Civil War Widows Benefits. No Issue.

He moved to Texas following his service in the Civil War in Missouri (1861-1886). The document has an excerpt from the ”Biographical Encyclopedia of Texas with a bio about Bingham Trigg. Assigned is his Obituary, which solves his death date as May 15, 1886, published in The Statesman Newspaper, Austin, Texas, May 16, 1886. Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the State of Texas, Volume 49, By The Texas Supreme Court.*

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After the Civil War, he was shunned by his father for fighting for the Confederacy, he chose to attend McGee College in Missouri, probably for the low cost, he attained his degree of law and passed the bar and began practicing law in Marshall County, Missouri.

Texas State Library and Archives Commission Copy of original written Petition presented by Col. Bingham Trigg. Had to do with Education and providing equal education as written by The Constitution of The United States and by The State of Texas. This was not happening in Texas Schools at this time as it was written in law. [https://www.geni.com/photo/view?album_type=photos_of_me&id=6000000036572637973&photo_id=6000000110971621038&position=2][https://www.geni.com/photo/view?album_type=photos_of_me&id=6000000036572637973&photo_id=6000000110971943940&position=1]

TRIGG VS STATE OF TEXAS Bingham Trigg won his case with the Texas Supreme Court - He was initially charged and convicted in a Texas Court with 1) Official misconduct and 2) being a habitual drunkard. Still, the answer from the Supreme Court was the proof of four instances the Jury charged him with was not sufficient to establish the charges against him of excessive drinking. No evidence of excessive use of alcohol, day after day, or even every week, to engender a fixed habit of a drunkard. I believe most important to Bingham Trigg was the Supreme Court found not a single witness to offer or raise suspicion of Trigg, or motive of facts, the charges of Official Misconduct were reversed - no evidence of guilt -It was stated unnecessarily to pursue this discussion further.

[https://books.google.com/books?id=AuYaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA643&lpg=PA643&d...]

Incident well-documented behavior after drinking. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34307583/the_austin_weekly_statesman/] (reference Knights of Pythias of Texas The Statesmen Newspaper, Austin, Texas articles attached. Wikipedia - Knights of Pythias

Col. Bingham Trigg defeated General Alexander Watkins Terrell, (CSA) , Feb 1883 Texas Senate Rep: ("Civil War Soldier, Texas Lawmaker, American Diplomat By Lewis L. Gould" [https://books.google.com/books?id=zRPUAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT88&dq=Colonel+B...] [https://books.google.com/books?id=nvxoDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA420&dq=Colonel+...

Obituary, attached in Media] (reference in private practice as attorney represented Benjamin "Ben" Thompson (aka, "Shotgun Ben")
Ben Thompson: Portrait of a Gunfighter By Thomas C. Bicknell, Chuck Parsons['https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=Colonel+Bingham+Trigg]]

References

Trigg Genealogy ”Lancaster From Virginia to Texas” Mary Nixon Rogers Excerpt From the Biographical Encyclopedia of Texas, pg 217, Barker Lindsay, University of Texas

Member of """EMMANUEL EPISCOPAL CHURCH, LOCKHART.""" Immanuel (later Emmanuel) Episcopal Church was organized by Rev. Joseph Wood Dunn on his arrival in Lockhart in August 1853. Dunn delivered his first sermon in Lockhart to a large crowd on August 21, 1853, in a small schoolhouse borrowed for the occasion. In 1854, after he was told that the school was no longer available for services, he set about raising funds for a church building. Four citizens, including 'Bingham Trigg', agreed to construct a roof and install windows if Dunn would arrange to have the walls built. The walls he had constructed extend under the surface two feet and are two feet thick. Hand-hewn cedar timbers form the ceiling beams, and the floor was made of limestone slabs, quarried locally, and carefully cut and polished. Hand-carved native walnut was used in the window frames, the base of the font, the chancery rails, and the altar. The structure, completed in 1856, is the oldest known unaltered church building in use by Protestants in Texas.(ref [http://www.eeclockhart.org/history.html Find a Grave memorial Bingham Trigg April 1882, he spoke at Greenback Convention for Lt. Gov. Of Texas, George W. Jones, nominated Texas State Senate, media attached Evening Night Newspaper” San Antonio, Texas, August 19, 1882. (refWikipedia - George Washington Jones (Texas politician)

Note: Father's. Probated Will: John A. Trigg, Probate Court Records, Saline County, Missouri, Probated 8th day of April 1872. In Record Book B, pg 330, names children: William (married Mary Frances William), Bingham (married Fannie R. Field), John C., ( married Marian W. Finley), Abram, (married Lovie Staples); Mary Rebecca (Marie’s Ephana Wallace), Theodosia Ann ( married JAMES Cooney), and Abner J. , unmarried ( last two by second wife, Amanda Harvey ' [https://acws.co.uk/archives-history-lastwill] His father left Bingham only a dime! [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35248503/unbelievable/]

Wikipedia - Knights of Pythias

Knights of Pythias, Member of Mount Bonnels Lodge 34  Obit places in Austin Statesmen Newspaper by Chairmen of Pyhias- attached in Find-a-grave. 

* Updated from FamilySearch Family Tree via wife Frances 'Fannie' Russell Trigg (born Field) by SmartCopy: Sep 22 2015, 12:16:14 UTC

Case law still references Col. Bingham Trigg’s case to the Supreme Court of Appeals, studied in law schools today ’’’https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4166824/state-v-ennis/’’’ one case that reference to his case.

Transcription of the Will of John A. Trigg, dated September 25, 1865, from the personal files of the portrait owner:

In the name of God, Amen, I, John A Trigg of Cooper County, Missouri, being of sound mind and memory but admonished by my failing health, that I am liable at almost any time to die suddenly, and at most can live but a few years, do therefore make this last will. And in the first place, I desire the payment of all my just debts. Secondly, I give my wife Amanda J Trigg after my debts are paid one-third of my real and personal estate absolutely. Third, I give to my son Abram Trigg, $500. Fourthly, to my daughter Mary R Wallace, I give the sum of $400, but her husband has been a rebel against this government, I desire that this small amount shall be invested and so managed that my said daughter shall alone receive the benefit of it during their joint lives, and in no event to be subject to the payment of his debts. Fifthly, I give to my daughter in law Mary Frances, the wife of my son William the sum of $200; this sum is to be subject to her own control and management.

Sixthly, as all the children of my first wife inherited from their grandfather Wyatt Bingham a right pretty estate, and which like all other fools they have done all in their power to destroy by the acts of treason and disloyalty to their Government (the best ever established among men) and for the further reason that my three oldest sons, William, Bingham and John, have been willfully disobedient and unmindful of my best counsel and advice and have sought and followed the advice and counsel of evil, wicked and traitorously affected persons and they thereby destroyed more than half of my estate, I do therefore and for these reasons, give to said sons William and John each the sum of $1.00 and to Bingham the sum of 10 cents, which is all I intend for them to have of my estate.

Seventhly, I give to my daughter Dotia Ann and my son Abner each one-third of the remainder of my estate with my blessings and prayers, that they may increase it honestly and use it wisely and that they may never in their bosoms give shelter to a single thought at war with the union of the states.

Eighthly, I have one request to make to those who may have the disposition of my body, after death, I have long observed with pain and regret the pride and pomp displayed on funeral occasions, sometimes almost to the impoverishment of the living, I want none of it, but direct that my body be interred in the cheapest, plainest and quietest way, let a plain block of native marble, limestone mark the spot with my name out on it and the words “He loved his whole Country” and lastly I have hereby constituted by wife Amanda H. Trigg executrix of my last will and testament.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal this 25th day of Sept. 1865

The son's took their step-mother to court, part of the land was Bingham land, brought into the estate by their late mother Rebecca W. Trigg at the time of marriage to their father John Anthony Trigg. It was tied up in court for several years with their step-mother finally settling with the children to have equal shares of the land.

• Trigg - Field Genealogy- " Lancaster From Virginia To Texas" by Mary Nixon Rogers, published 1986. attributions attached in photos. [ https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/?navigation=&per...] Family Search Library Salt Lake City, Utah
• 83286
• Creator
• Rogers, Mary Nixon
• Language
• English
• eng
• en
• Subject
• Lancaster family
• Baker family
• Hill family
• Townes family
• Walker family
• Extent
• vii, 240 p.
• Page Count
• 249
• Residence: 1850 - Saline county, Saline, Missouri, United States
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• Residence: Saline county, Saline, Missouri, United States - 1850
• Residence: Austin, Travis, Texas, United States - 1880
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• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Aug 17 2019, 5:51:54 UTC
• Residence: Saline county, Saline, Missouri, United States - 1850
• Residence: Austin, Travis, Texas, United States - 1880
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• Residence: Barbour county, Barbour, Alabama, United States - 1850
• Residence: Caldwell, Texas, United States - 1860
• Residence: Austin, Travis, Texas, United States - 1880
• Residence: Lockhart, Caldwell, Texas, United States - 1910
• Residence: Gonzales Ward 2, Gonzales, Texas, United States - 1910
• Residence: Lockhart, Caldwell, Texas, United States - 1920
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• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jan 19 2024, 7:43:54 UTC