John Daniel Binnicker

SURNAMES: BINNICKER, ZIEGLER, CLANTON, LEUSCHNER, RHODES, GROSS, PITTMAN, MULLINS, MORGANS, LITTLEFIELD, MULLINS, WILLIAMS, BRYAN

John Daniel Binnicker, b 1826 in Orangeburg, South Carolina, d April 10, 1878 at Hope near Otto, Falls County, Texas. He married in 1850 to Caroline Elizabeth Ziegler, b April 15, 1832 in Orangeburg, South Carolina, d September 16, 1922 at Otto, Texas.

John and Caroline Binnicker moved to Butler County, Alabama in 1854. They travelled by boat from Mobile, Alabama to Galveston, Texas in 1874- settling in southern McLennan County, Texas where he rented land. According to a letter dated August 12, 1877 at Waco, to his daughter Idella, John Daniel hoped to buy some land the next year, but he died of pneumonia before realizing his hope.

John Daniel Binnicker served in Clanton's Battalion of Company A, 40th Alabama Light Infantry during the Civil War, and was hospitalized several times during this service, with pneumonia. After his death, his widow, Caroline Elizabeth, lived with her daughters until her death in 1922 at the of Ada - Mrs. Gus Leuschner -who resided in Otto. John Daniel and Caroline Elizabeth (Ziegler) Binnicker had eleven children - the first in South Carolina, nine in Alabama, and the youngest in Riesel, McLennan County, Texas:

Idella Kizzire Binnicker, b May 14, 1852 - married a Mr. Kelly, and died in Marlin, Falls County, Texas.

Mary Magdaline Binnicker, b August 10, 1855, d January 28,1952 in Otto, Falls County, Texas - married Joe Rhodes.

Alice Elizabeth Binnicker, b August 1, 1857 - married John Gross.

John William Binnicker, b April 5, 1859, d January 6, 1940 in Leon County, Texas.

Vernia Olivia Binnicker, b November 8, 1860- married James Pittman.

James Postell Binnicker, b September 16, 1862, d 1958.

Martha Rachel Binnicker, b December 1, 1865- married Isaac Pinkney Mullins - a son of Isaac P. and Nancy (Morgan) Mullins.

Ada Binnicker, b February 22, 1868 - married Gus Leuschner, of Otto, Texas.

Frances Josephine Binnicker, b June 10, 1873, d July 28, 1931 at Cone, Texas - married a Mr. Littlefield.

Caroline Louise Binnicker, b February 23, 1871, d September 2, 1965 at Mart, Texas - married first a Mr. Mullins, and second to a Mr. Williams.

Ella Victoria Binnicker, b November 11, 1876 at Riesel, Falls County, Texas, d September 9, 1963 in Marlin, Falls County, Texas - married Peyton James Bryan.

John Daniel Binnicker was buried in the Hope Cemetery in Falls County; Caroline Elizabeth (Ziegler) Binnicker was buried in Calvary Cemetery in Marlin, Falls County, Texas.

Some biographies from "Families of Falls County", compiled and edited by the Falls County Historical Commission.
Permission granted to Theresa Carhart by the Falls County Historical Commission, for use on this page.