SON of WILLIAM BEAN and LYDIA RUSSELL)

Descendants of Russell Bean (SON OF WILLIAM BEAN And LYDIA RUSSELL)

1 Russell Bean b: Aft. 1769 +Rosamond Robertson b: 1775 in NC d: 1852 Father: Charles Robertson Mother: Susannah Cunningham 2 Baxter Bean b: Mar 08, 1799 in Washington Co, TN d: 1849 in TN +Margaret Leach b: 1804 in NC m: Abt. 1828 in Washington Co, TN d: 1859 in Amador Co, CA 2 Charles Bean b: 2 James Bean b: 2 Robert Bean b: 2 Camilla Bean b: 2 Nancy Bean b: +Jacob Hartsell b: 2 Roseanna Bean b: 1806 +Asa Shipley b: 1805

Here is a little of what I have on Russell's children......

1. Baxter Charles Bean, b.8 March 1799 Jonesboro Tenn., died ca. 1858,m. Margaret Leach.

2. Charles, b. 1795 in Jonesboro Tenn., m. Margaret L. Cloyd 19 June,1815. 3. James.

4. Joseph, b. 1808 Washington Co TN , d. 1915 Catoosa Co GA..m#1 Mary Slinger Baxter. m.#2 Mary Baxter. Joseph owned a gun shop in ROck Creek in Union Co TN , he later moved to Catoosa Co GA and is shown there in 1860 operating a gun shop with his son Joseph S Bean (born 9-13-1843 d.12-8-1915 Obion Co TN, burried Clemmens cem. married Mary Elizabeth Fields)

5. Robert, b.1802 Joneseboro TN, d.May,1836 Washington Co.Tenn.m 1)Kathy Sliger 12 Mar.1818, m 2)Mary Hunter 17Oct1833.In 1830 census it shows him having 5 children, 2 sons and 3 daughters who were all by his 1st wife. He had a son who went to Europe to Climb Mt Blanc but was killed in the process in 1872

6. Camilla Bean, b.1804 Jonesboro TN, m 1) Jesse Austin Feb 9.1824, m.2) John Garland 10 March,1827. She had 5 kids, all born to the 2nd mrg.

1 7. Roseannah Bean (Rosie)b.Spring 1806 Washington Co TN, died after the 1880 census. m.1826 to Asa Shipley born 1805 KNox Co TN died after 1860 Washington Co TN. Both Roseannah and Asa are burried in McCully Cemetery Washington Co TN. Asa was a cabinet maker and often also made coffins. Three of their sons served in the cofederacy during the Civil War. They had 9 children in total all being born in Washinton Co TN

8. Nancy (not sure if this is indeed a child of theirs or not) b.ca.1790,m.Jacob Hartsell05 Oct 1805.

Top of Form 1 Re: Looking for books on the Bean line

Ahab Bean, son of William Bean Jr., and his first wife, Rachell Ball, was born Jan. 10, 1778, Washington County, TN. He spent his early days in Grainger Co., Tenn. He was on the 1801 Grainger Co., TN. tax list, but owning no property. He married in 1809 to Isabelle Walker, she was born October 24, 1790, daughter of Felix Walker and Susannah Robertson, sister of Rosamond who was the wife of Russell Bean. They left Grainger Co., shortly after their marriage by covered wagon and ox team. Their first child was born May 18, 1810 in St. Charles, Missouri.

They went ot Galena, Ill. in 1826. Located in Benton, Wisconsin in 1827. The 1850 census shows that he and his faimly were on a farm in the town of Highland, Iowa Co.

Then in the back of the book it has Ahab Bean Family Bible records, which say:

Births: Ahab Bean was borned January 10, A.D. 1778 Isabel Bean was borned A.D. October 24, 1790

It lists names of children, then says:

The Ahab Bean Bible Records were copied by Helen Hird Prehm, a descendant of Ahab Bean. This Bible now in possession of Mr. Frank J. Bean, Elwood, Nebraska, a grandson of Ahab and Isabel Walker.

It lists some deaths including Ahab and Isabel as follows:

2 Died on the 12th day of Dec. a 1/2 past 11 o'clock Ahab Bean, aged 79 years and eleven months and 2 days, 1857. Isabel Bean died 15 Jan. 1856.

There are a few marriages listed however, dealing with just Ahab and Isabel, it says:

Ahab Bean was married in the year A.D. 1809 to Isabelle Walker.

This info, also includes info on their children, which I haven't included.

The book is by Jamie Ault Grady The front page of the book gives the title of the book and who it was by and says also:

Researched and compiled by Jamie Ault Grady, assisted by some members of the Southern Bean Association. Some of these pages have been copied exactly as the original. Repetition may be found to co-ordinate the lines to the unfamiliar, interested reader.

Direct Descendants of William Bean 1 (1st generation) William Bean ... +Unknown wife .... 2 (2nd generation) William Bean b: December 09, 1721 in Northumberland Co, VA d: 1782 in Washington Co, TN ...... +Lydia Russell b: 1726 in VA d: Bef. June 18, 1788 in Washington Co, TN ...... 3 (3rd generation) William Bean, Jr. b: Abt. 1745 in Augusta Co, VA d: 1798 in Grainger Co, TN ...... +(1st wife) Rachel Ball ...... 4 Ahab Bean (4th generation) b: January 10, 1778 in Washington Co, TN d: December 12, 1857 in Benton, WI ...... +Isabell Walker b: October 1790, d: January 15, 1861, married 1809 (her parents were Felix Walker and Susannah Robertson) ...... 5 (5th generation) Nancy Mary Bean, b: October 15, 1811, St. Charles, MO ...... +John Wilson Nichols

The author says that Nancy Mary Bean and John Wilson Nichols lived in Marion Co, Il most of their lives.

3 The 2nd and 3rd William Bean's shown in this line were both American Revolutionary War Veterans. They were in the Battle of King's Mountain, described by Thomas Jefferson as the turning point of the war.

The William Bean of the 2nd generation above (usually called William Bean, Sr.) is the father of the first white child born in what became Tennessee, Russell Bean b: 1769. William Bean, Sr.'s wife, Lydia Russell Bean was kidnapped by Indians, was about to undergo torture and death (as a neighbor boy had just been killed in front of her) when she was saved by the famous Beloved Woman, a sort of Indian wise woman, Nancy Ward. This 2nd William and his son William, Jr. were both known as Captain William Bean, their title in the militia.

Although the Bean's had friends among the Cherokee, they also had enemies. Reportedly, when William Bean, Sr. died, his grave was disguised so that ememy Indians would not desecrate his body. The grave was subsequently entirely lost.

Origin of William Bean (m. Naomi\Nomiah) Author: M Bean Date: 22 Aug 2001 10:41 PM GMT Surnames: Bean, Bates, Storment Classification: Query In Reply to: Bean Info for all users of the Board by: Earl Patton Post Reply | Mark Unread | Report Abuse Print Message Good question. I can tell you what I remember from my father who heard it from Bernie Bean who heard it from some US Bean family. Bernie had notes from that family but could not place them when asked. Not good enough, but it is what we have until someone pipes up with documents.

My own family legend has us from Scotland, not Ireland. There is mention of a Scots Bible in the family in the last century and we have some clues as to where it went (perhaps to John Telford in 1855 in Jefferson Co, IL, from the estate of Mary Bean (1772-1855), (m. Samuel Storment) and daughter of William and Naomi). GW Bean mentions a bible account mentioning (Mary and Samuel). However, a Scots Bible may only mean a Presbyterian Bible.

Naomi's last name "stems primarily from a written statement by Flora Diana Bean 1871, daughter of the Mormon George Washington Bean (1831-1897), who edited and published her father's autobiography (1945). The statement appears on page 265 of that book, in a section written not by George but by Flora: "The earliest direct relative was found in the Bible of William Bean and Naormi Bates, of Scotch-Irish descent, whose birth dates and places are not known.""

William's age derives from the Charles Town, SC clerk report (Jan 5, 1768) at council meeting, reporting on the arrival of poor Irish protestants in response to the encouragement of the Bounty offered them. The list of names of passengers of the Admiral Hawke ship included, William Bean 40, Nomiah Bean 30, William Bean 13, and Thomas Bean 3. However, they may have been granted more than the usual land, suggesting that there may have been another 4 Beanie baby. This suggests William was born about 1727.

Bernie heard that we were from Shire Inverness, near Croy Prish originally, so travelled to Scotland and did the usual church record search. That can be done in various places now as the records are on microfiche. There is a center in Edinburgh that will do it for an online fee. I Bounty offered them. The list of names of passengers of the Admiral Hawke ship included, William Bean 40, Nomiah Bean 30, William Bean 13, and Thomas Bean 3. However, they may have been granted more than the usual land, suggesting that there may have been another Beanie baby. This suggests William was born about 1727.

Bernie heard that we were from Shire Inverness, near Croy Prish originally, so travelled to Scotland and did the usual church record search. That can be done in various places now as the records are on microfiche. There is a center in Edinburgh that will do it for an online fee. I have done it in Inverness just two years ago and probably have notes somewhere. I forget the evidence for the dates, but hearsay has William arriving in Ulster in the mid 1730's.

If you put those unsubstantiated clues together (William Bean near Croy, Inverness in 1736 but not thereafter) while searching, it doesn't take long to find possible matches. The best suggestion is a William Bean of Drumlanvel\Druimlanvel etc. If I scrounge in my notes, I might turn up a brother or two (I seem to remember a George and perhaps an Alexander), it seems like there were a number of Beans there at that time. No longer. The Beans are nearly all gone to the Americas. I think there was one in Inverness, another in Cawdor, another in Nairn, but I did not look them up. The graveyard at Croy has several MacBeans from the very late 1700's, early 1800's. The graveyard has no stones from our period, nor does any other graveyard I looked at. I have looked for maps and found a good one from the time of Culloden Field, but no mention of a Drumlanvel.

It is thought that William and Naomi lived in Ulster as so many Plantation Scots did, having moved there in the mid 1730's, before Culloden Field and the Jacobite Rebellion. I do not know the evidence of this, but I believe my father has a clue as to where they might have lived. I prefer the notion that they left after Culloden field because it makes a better story. Croy is midway between Culloden and Ft. George (the world's largest fort at that time, erected to keep the Scots under control) - it was NOT a good place to be for those who fought on the wrong side. MacBeans are listed in the Culloden Field lists, one Gillie having made himself notorious before he died. I liked my story because I could not understand why they would leave Inverness which seems good farm land. If you read the history of Ulster, there are lots of good reasons for Scots to move there during the Plantation.

A Croy, Inverness origin is very reasonable as many Beans lived at the northeast end of Loch Ness, Shire Inverness.

Apparently some family in the US has some more evidence of the Croy orign. It would be nice to contact that family.

1. Aran Bean, B. 1570, Strathdearn, Inverness, Scotland 2. Donald Bean, B. 1601, Inverness 3. William Bean (1) B. 1635 C.A. Inverness, Scotland. First Bean along with a brother John to come to USA. Exiled by Cromwell 4. John Bean, B 1682 5. William Bean (3) 6. Capt. William Bean (4) B. Dec. 9, 1721, Exeter, NH. Known children were Wiliam Jr., Capt. Robert, Edmund, Jessie Russell.

5 At a knoll on Boones Creek, TN Capt. William Bean (first permanent white settler) built his cabin in 1769. This is near the site where he had camped with Daniel Boone on earlier hunting trips. Russell Bean first white child of permanent settlers born here. 7. William Bean (5) B. 1743 in VA. Had three sons, Col. Peter Ellis, Russell Leroy. 8. LeRoy Bean (6) B 1790 in TN. He was 2nd Lt. in Creek and Indian war. Described by wife as dark or black haired with blue eyes and 6'2" tall. His first wife was Jane McSween b 1801. They had 11 kids-John Thomas b. May 11, 1817; George Pleasant b. Nov. 21, 1818; David Marion b. 1821; Jane b. 1824; Elizabeth Ann b. Jne 27, 1828; Milton J b. ??; James W. b. 1833; Martha M b 1835; Jane and LeRoy were divorced in Franklin Co., TN and she came to TX with 11kids in a covered wagon around 1837-39. She is buried at Magnolia Cemetary at Woodville, TX. LeRoys 2nd wife was Lucinda Marchbanks. LeRoy died April 29, 1869 in Murfreesboro, TX

A few selections from published works that mention members of the Bean/Been/Beene family or describe events that members of the family were involved in:

Alderman, Pat. The Overmountain Men, Battle of King's Mountain, Cumberland Decade, State of Franklin, Southwest Territory, Original Copyright 1970, Reprinted with Index 1986 by the Overmountain Press, Johnson City, Tennessee.

There are many references to William Bean, spelled Bean and Been, and other members of his family in this book.

p 13

"William Bean was acquainted with military training of the time and held a Captain's rank in the Virginia Militia. He was a born leader and a man of means. His name appears frequently in the organization and affairs of the Watauga Association and Washington County. Many relatives and friends from Virginia soon settled around Bean. Among them were John and George Russell, brothers of Mrs. Bean, William, Jr., and John Bean, William's sons and others."

This is a good read, but there are some factual mistakes, probably due to the fact that there are several lines of early Bean families whose relationships to each other are undetermined. Also, the author states that Lydia Russell's

6 father was James Russell. Other researchers believe her father was William Russell. However, the gist of her chapter on the Beans is consistent with other accounts. It is believed that she was correct in saying that the John Bean who was a delegate from Washington County was the brother of William Bean, the pioneer, and not his son by the same name. p 10 (The Bean Chapter covers pages 7-15).

!!!! "Serving under Captain William Bean in the expedition that pursued Captain Grimes was his brother, John Bean, a man of education, and a delegate to the convention of Franklin from Washington County, and also Captain Bean's son, George Bean, and Edmond Bean, probably a son of John Bean. !!!!!!! The Beans were all famous as riflemen, and history chronicles more than one instance of their marksmanship."

Arnow, Harriette Simpson. Seedtime on the Cumberland,! The Macmillan Co, New York, 1960. This is a very detailed, heavily footnoted work, but it is still highly readable and very enjoyable. p 180

The author says that the Cherokee Indians and their leader Attakullakulla may not have known right away when, "...in 1769, a white man came and built a cabin further down the Holston than any man had yet dared settle, for the cabin, on Boone's Creek about one hundred yards from its junction with the Watauga River, was in a cunning place above a creek fall where it could not be easily attacked, and so situated that Indians passing on the nearby trail would never see it." (The author cites Ramsey's, The Annals of Tennessee for this reference about Bean's cabin). !!! "The builder was William Bean, one of a race of hard- working, self-respecting borderers of Pittsylvania in southwestern Virginia from which so many Long Hunters and land viewers came. Soon, there gathered about him, relatives, former neighbors, and also several families from western North Carolina."

There is a family tradition that the cabin was first built as a hunting cabin by William's brother, John Been. When John brought his family to this area later, he built another cabin, nearby.

7 p. 190

The author is describing a treaty being made with the Cherokee and the celebrations and speeches that accompanied the talks..."William Bean, the first settler in what was to be Tennessee, may have been somewhere around listening as his home was just up the river; behind him in the Bean family was a long history of migrations, first into Pennsylvania, then down the Valley of Virginia and into southwestern Virginia, and at last across the divide and into the Holston Country and down. East Tennessee was a hard and bloody land until 1795, yet by 1826 a young Bean was on the Sabine River in Texas."

Bobrick, Benson. Angel in the Whirlwind, The Triumph of the American Revolution (Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, 1997). The author uses a massive amount of primary sources and somehow puts it together to create a very readable and informative book.

This book does not mention any of our Bean men by name, but it is a good read about the American Revolution. Sycamore Shoals is where William Bean's cabin was, where he brought his family to live in 1769. His brother, John Been, built another cabin nearby... p 425

The author is describing events leading up to the Battle of King's Mountain in October of 1780: "On the morning of September 25, some 840 stalwart and patriotic 'overmountain men,' as they were called--among the wildest of the! frontiersmen --assembled under their partisan leaders at Sycamore Shoals. Their horses were decked out in red-and- yellow trappings 'of almost barbaric splendor' and the men themselves in hunting shirts of blue linen gaily decorated with tassels and fringe. Each man carried a blanket or knapsack on his back, a skillet fastened to the pommel of his saddle, and a buckskin shoulder pouch filled with parched corn. In addition to hunting knives, they carried the long Deckard rifle of the Kentucky frontier. Thus lightly encumbered, they could travel up to forty miles a day, and march and fight, it was said, for forty-eight hours without food or rest." p 426

8 "After marching and riding all night through a drenching rain, the patriot forces came up to where Ferguson was ensconced at about three in the afternoon of October 7. They had traveled for thirty-six hours without rest, and some had gone without food for two days. Nevertheless, they paused only long enough to strap their blankets to their saddles and tether their horses among the trees. 'Every man threw four or five balls in his mouth,' recalled one young rifleman, James Collins, 'to be in readiness to reload quick.'"

Crabb, Martha L. Over the Mountain, A Narrative History of the Bean, Selman, and Germany Families,! (Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, 1990). p 150

"All able-bodied men between the ages of 18 and 50 were required by law to serve (in the militia) and to attend muster 'armed and equipped as the law directs.' The minimum age of service had risen from 16 during the late 1700s to 18 at the beginning of the 1800s. Officers were elected by popular vote, and positions were keenly sought as a vote of confidence and esteem. At the Franklin County muster on July 23, 1810, Robert Been, then 46 years old, was commissioned captain of the 32nd Regiment of the Tennessee Militia, and since that date has been known as Captain Robert."

Dixon, Max. The Wataugans, Original Copyright 1976 by the Tennessee American Revolution Bicentennial Commission. ! Reprinted with Index 1989, Copyright by the Overmountain Press, Johnson City, Tennessee.

The author profiles four of the founding fathers of the Watauga Association. The birth and death dates given for William Bean are not the usually cited dates of 1721-1782. p 13 The Wataugans...the founding fathers

"William Bean (1716-1811) Plantation owner from Southside, Virginia, of Scotch descent. Farmer, trader, and soldier (captain at King's Mountain), Bean was the first settler of record in the Watauga valley in 1769. No mere 'first settler,' William Bean was a man of substance and a true colonizer. His family, relatives, and friends constituted the downstream 'other half' of the Watauga settlements."

9 Draper, Lyman C.! LL.D., King's Mountain and Its Heroes, History of the Battle of King's Mountain, October 7th, 1780, and the Events Which Led To It,! Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1967 (Of course, this is a reprint; the work was originally printed during the 1800's, because it is quoted by others who wrote in 1889 or before). This is the ultimate source of information about the Battle of King's Mountain. Every book that even mentions this battle quotes Lyman C. Draper. p 108

!!!!!!! "It was unfortunate for the enemy, that, in this desperate contest, one Captain was killed, and five out of seven of the surviving officers of their Provincial corps were wounded. Besides Innes, shot down by Smith, another Watauga rifleman, Robert Beene, wounded Major Fraser, who was seen to reel from his horse."

Hudgins, Dennis Ray, Editor. Cavaliers and Pioneers, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents...Volume Five,! Virginia Genealogical Society p 320

"WILLIAM BEEN, 354 acs. Brunswick Co, on N side of Dan Riv., Beg. on the Riv. below the double Creeks; 1 Oct 1747, p 215, £1.S15."

Kegley, F. B. Kegley's Virginia Frontier, The Beginning of The Southwest, The Roanoke of Colonial Days, 1740-1783,! published by The Southwest Virginia Historical Society, Roanoke, Virginia, U.S.A., 1938. p 90-91

!!!!!!! "Only a few names appear in the land records for this region as early as 1742, but in determining the location of the residences of the men enrolled in Capt. George Robinson's Company of Militia of that date we find that all of them lived south of James River, a part on the branches of the James and the rest on the "Roan Oak." We have here, then, the vanguard of the western migration at that period. !!!!!!! 1742. Among these first men we find George Robinson, the captain of the company; James Rentfroe, a sergeant; Daniel Maughnahan, Mark Coal, Peter Renfroe, Henry Stiles, John Askins, James Coal, Bryan Cuff, Simon Acres, John

10 Meason, William Acres, Tasker Tosh, Henry Brown, Samuel Brown, James Burk, Mark Evins, William Bean, Samuel Martin, Peter Kinder, Stephen Evins, Stephen Ranfro (Rentfroe), William Bradshaw, John Coal, William Craven, Nicholas Horseford." (This passage cited another work, Chalkley's Abstracts, Volume 2, page 509, from Draper Mss). !!!!!!! "At Daniel Monahan's sale held on December 13, 1744, there were present many individuals not mentioned in earlier records:--James Price, Charles Ewing, John Thomas, William Armstrong, William Carson, William Mills, Methusalem Griffith, Tobias Bright, Archibald Grimes, Daniel Creely, George Barber, John McFall, William March, Jasper Terry, Joseph Love, William Terry, James Davis." (This passage cites Chalkley's Abstracts, Volume 3, page 9, Sale bill).

Nicklin, Jr., John Bailey, compiler. The Millers of Millersburg and Their Descendants, Press of Brandon Printing Company, Nashville, Tennessee. Copyright 1923 by John Bailey Nicklin, Jr. p 349 Letter from S. H. Beene, November 3, 1922

!!! "As to my father's father, I have a very faint recollection of seeing him when I was a small boy, about the year 1850, I should say, perhaps. His name was William (Billy). He must have had brothers, for my father had cousins by the name of Beene. His father, my great grandfather, was brother to Captain Billy Beene who is given in the history of the state as having been the first permanent settler in the state. His name was John. !!! I recollect my father saying that in North Carolina, where they came from, they had three brothers, William, John, and Bob, but that Bob went North, and they never heard of him any more. !!! Back of that he knew nothing. In describing them, he said they were tall, well formed, athletic men, with rather florid complexions, and blue eyes. He used to tell about two of them (brothers) who went to an Indian ball game to play with them, but were excluded because, to put them both on one side, would cut off all chance for the other, and it was against Indian rule to play brothers against each other."

Francis Maybury - Grainger County Records

11 Compiled by Don Collins who has written a book on Francis Maybury(late 1600's) and Elizabeth Gilliam of Surry, VA and their descendents. Contributed to the Grainger County website by:

1800 May 20 Grainger Deed from Elizabeth Bean and Robert Blair for one hundred acres proven in open court. Let it be registered for Isaac Cooper. (WPA) Grainger County Court Minutes 1796-1801 , p. 170.