Hannah Bean

Well educated. Received college training, albeit near home (Collegeville, Pa.)

Was only 22 when her mother died, four months after she married. She had lost her father as a child.

Both Hannah's husband the older of her two sons committed suicide. Her husband may have had suffered PTSD from the Civil War. His motives for taking his life are puzzling. Likewise for William Bean: His 1st child was about to be born & he had a fine military career.

From her granddaughter: Mary Rogers(Bean):

See both the 1857 Map of Upper Providence and Heebner's Mill on Created / Published Philadelphia : Smith & Wistar, 1849
I just visited this site (July 2021). The mill is still standing but is in need of substantial structural repair if it is to last much longer. Follow Yerkes Road as far as possible to get down to the buildings on the East bank of the Perkiomen.

"Hannah Heebner was born on her father’s mill property called “Buttonwood Hall”, Yerkes. She was graduated from Pennsylvania Female College †† 1856. Their wedding at “Buttonwood Hall”, she was married to Theodore Weber Bean. They lived at Jeffersonville where he bought Isaiah Richards’ blacksmith shop and home on Ridge Pike (house still standing, 1981) T.W.B. had been apprenticed to Mr. Richards and gained a reputation for producing a superior type of small tools in his auger factory there on Ridge Pike. Gramma Bean with help from their assistants tried to keep up the business while grandfather Bean took his part in the Civil War including Appomattox. On his return he resumed his business but studied law on the side. Admitted to practice he ended the business and moved to 709 Swede St., Norristown.

Following Grandfather Bean’s death, Gramma Bean moved to Conshohocken to live with Uncle Con.(rad) & Aunt Mary Jones at 125 E. Fourth Ave. There she remained until her death in 1917. She and Grandfather Bean are buried at Montgomery Cemetery, Norristown."

~ written by Mary Rogers (Bean) to her sister, Elizabeth Wildman (Bean) in August 1981 .

†† PA Women's College, originally Montgomery Female Seminary, was but a short walk from the mill property where Hannah grew up.

Hannah's residences: 1. Yerkes Mill property 2. Jeffersonville (Ridge Pike) 3. Norristown (809 Swede Street) 4. Conshohocken (125 E. 4th Avenue)

Conshohocken and Norristown had the traditional RIdge Pike route that was the thoroughfare in those days to Philadelphia along the north east shore of the Schuylkill RIver

The Heebner family is part of the Schwenkfelder immigrants from Silesia: http://schwenkfelderexilesociety.org/
The immigrant family originally settled in the upper NorthWest corner of the then new Norriton Township, not far from where Hannah grew up. Her mother's Barndollar line were early residents of Roxborough and Germantown.

Hannah Heebner's husband is a Weber of the region. Her sister, Sarah, also married a Weber. That is, Hannah's husband, Col. Theodore Weber Bean, is John Casselberry Weber's first cousin.

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jul 14 2022, 13:02:38 UTC