Mary Bynum was born in Tarboro, Edgecombe County, NC, the eldest of 3 children (2 girls/1 boy) born to businessman and merchant, Edward Turner Bynum and his wife, Maud Barnes. She is the paternal granddaughter of farmers, Richard Turner Bynum & Mary Elizabeth Cobb of Farmville, Pitt Co; and the paternal grandchild of Arthur Barnes & Joana Minor of Wilson, NC.
Mary's father died when she was just 10 years old, and her widowed mother raised her children in their grand Victorian Italianate home on Main Street by becoming a dressmaker. Her spinster aunt, Blanche Barnes, moved in with the family and helped raise the children and financially support the household.
Mary was 31 years old, and well on her way to being a spinster herself, when she fell in love in 1910 and married 23-year old Audry Delman Fowlkes of Virginia, a young railroad worker living in Tarboro.
The young couple would have two children in quick succession: Mary Bynum Fowlkes (1911-1986), who later married William Randolph Martin; and Edward Bynum Fowlkes (1913-1984). In 1916, after six years of marriage, Mary died of breast cancer at the age of 37.
Her 29-year old widowed husband was left to raise 2 children alone. He moved in with his widowed mother-in-law, Maud Barnes Bynum, where the children were raised in her Main Street home.
Mary's father died when she was just 10 years old, and her widowed mother raised her children in their grand Victorian Italianate home on Main Street by becoming a dressmaker. Her spinster aunt, Blanche Barnes, moved in with the family and helped raise the children and financially support the household.
Mary was 31 years old, and well on her way to being a spinster herself, when she fell in love in 1910 and married 23-year old Audry Delman Fowlkes of Virginia, a young railroad worker living in Tarboro.
The young couple would have two children in quick succession: Mary Bynum Fowlkes (1911-1986), who later married William Randolph Martin; and Edward Bynum Fowlkes (1913-1984). In 1916, after six years of marriage, Mary died of breast cancer at the age of 37.
Her 29-year old widowed husband was left to raise 2 children alone. He moved in with his widowed mother-in-law, Maud Barnes Bynum, where the children were raised in her Main Street home.
Mary Bynum was born in Tarboro, Edgecombe County, NC, the eldest of 3 children (2 girls/1 boy) born to businessman and merchant, Edward Turner Bynum and his wife, Maud Barnes. She is the paternal granddaughter of farmers, Richard Turner Bynum & Mary Elizabeth Cobb of Farmville, Pitt Co; and the paternal grandchild of Arthur Barnes & Joana Minor of Wilson, NC.
Mary's father died when she was just 10 years old, and her widowed mother raised her children in their grand Victorian Italianate home on Main Street by becoming a dressmaker. Her spinster aunt, Blanche Barnes, moved in with the family and helped raise the children and financially support the household.
Mary was 31 years old, and well on her way to being a spinster herself, when she fell in love in 1910 and married 23-year old Audry Delman Fowlkes of Virginia, a young railroad worker living in Tarboro.
The young couple would have two children in quick succession: Mary Bynum Fowlkes (1911-1986), who later married William Randolph Martin; and Edward Bynum Fowlkes (1913-1984). In 1916, after six years of marriage, Mary died of breast cancer at the age of 37.
Her 29-year old widowed husband was left to raise 2 children alone. He moved in with his widowed mother-in-law, Maud Barnes Bynum, where the children were raised in her Main Street home.
Mary's father died when she was just 10 years old, and her widowed mother raised her children in their grand Victorian Italianate home on Main Street by becoming a dressmaker. Her spinster aunt, Blanche Barnes, moved in with the family and helped raise the children and financially support the household.
Mary was 31 years old, and well on her way to being a spinster herself, when she fell in love in 1910 and married 23-year old Audry Delman Fowlkes of Virginia, a young railroad worker living in Tarboro.
The young couple would have two children in quick succession: Mary Bynum Fowlkes (1911-1986), who later married William Randolph Martin; and Edward Bynum Fowlkes (1913-1984). In 1916, after six years of marriage, Mary died of breast cancer at the age of 37.
Her 29-year old widowed husband was left to raise 2 children alone. He moved in with his widowed mother-in-law, Maud Barnes Bynum, where the children were raised in her Main Street home.
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