Sgt. William Bean, (USA)

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Sgt. William Bean, (USA)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States
Death: 1907 (84-85)
Norristown, Montgomery County, PA, United States
Place of Burial: Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Hon. William Bean and Mary Bean
Husband of Emily Bean
Father of William Bean; Hannah Owen Bean and Theodore Howard Bean
Brother of Hannah L. Owen (Bean); Edwin A. Bean; Sgt. Jesse Weber Bean (CSA); Anna Louisa Ritter; Col. Theodore Weber Bean, (USA) and 2 others

Occupation: farmer, then clerk in Dry goods store
Managed by: Private User
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About Sgt. William Bean, (USA)

William married a "girl next door" in 1848 . The Bean family farm, was sold to William Kennedy a few years later, William had probably already moved to his wife's family farm next door > the Thomas and Hannah Wayne Owen farm. See: https://ancestortracks.com/PhiSur_Norriton(Mont)_1857.jpg

Enlisted in Company C, Pennsylvania 34th Infantry Regiment on 03 Jun 1863. Mustered out on 24 Aug 1863. Two of his brothers were in 17th PA Cav., Edwin and Theodore W. Bean. Mustered out in the month after Gettysburg...

not found in https://www.pa-roots.com/pacw/reserves/5thres/5threscoc.html

Became a clerk in a dry goods store (as of age 58) (1880 census)

Buried in Montgomery cemetery w/other family members: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/165233959/william-bean

~• married a <WAYNE> through the Owen line, as in Maj. Gen. "Mad" Anthony Wayne; his sister Hannah married an Owen... ~• IOW: siblings married siblings..

~• his brother-in-law, David Zell Mathys is also the brother-in-law of his "outcast'" brother Jesse Weber Bean, who fought for the Confederacy.

~• was perhaps a fancier of trotting races: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112252526/kenwood-driving-assn-jeff... The Philadelphia Inquirer
PAGE 4 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; Friday, June 23, 1899

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Sgt. William Bean, (USA)'s Timeline

1822
March 1822
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States
1850
1850
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States
1852
January 23, 1852
Norriton Twp., Montgomery County, PA, United States
1854
1854
Pennsylvania, United States