**Per Christie Bing Kracker, (Grover Bing Jr’s daughter), one of her family’s stories is that her Great Grandmother Mattie Jane (wife of Franklin Harrison Bing), was found as a baby in a potato crib on the Allen’s farm near Moscow, Tennessee. She is said to have been a full blooded Choctaw Indian who was abandoned by her parents during the Trail of Tears March. Mattie Jane Allen’s adoptive parents were Thomas and Carrie Allen of Early Grove, Mississippi.

**Per Eddy Bing, (Charles “Lee” Bing’s son), his Grandfather Wesley E. (Sr) told him that our ancestors migrated from Macklin Boyd, Virginia, which doesn’t exist. There is, however, a Mecklinburg, Virginia, which has a large number of Bing families.

Supposedly, the Bings and the Canadys migrated together, either by boxcar or wagon train and settled around Moscow, Fayette County, Tennessee.

Wesley Sr., also stated that his parents were Edward “Coot” and Caroline Canady Bing.

Supposedly, Coot was born and died in Blackjack, Mississippi, which according to www.geonames.usgs.gov, this is (or was) in Oktibbeha County. But this is contrary to the information of our family migrating to Moscow, Tennessee. Did some of the family leave off in different places along the way?

Eddy also remembers being told his Great Grandfather Franklin Harrison worked as a carpenter in a shipyard in Mobile, Alabama about 1917.

According to Robin (Bing) Conrad, her Grandmother Lena (?) Bing was a full blood Choctaw Indian. I have not yet located a surname for Lena. Could she also be an Allen?

According to Eddy Bing, Coot had a brother named Samuel. Samuel had a son named George Admiral Bing.

I have found notations online (as yet unconfirmed) that George Admiral Bing served one year in the Civil War, for which he drew a soldier’s pension. He was from Tennessee and his wife was named Mary.

Interesting note, if Samuel was Coot’s brother, then the George Admiral found on the SS Death Index who was born 1912, cannot be the same George Admiral that served in the Civil War.

Samuel “could” have served in the Civil War IF he did so at a very young age, but it seems unlikely that George Admiral is the same one that served in the Civil War records I’ve located. Could the George Admiral in the Civil War records possibly be the father of Coot and Sam and the grandfather of George Admiral?