Samuel Pike Bean (1810-1891)
Samuel Pike Bean was born to Michaiah Bean and Eunice Pike on May 2, 1810, in Waterboro, York, Maine. He had ten brothers and sisters: Sarah, Ira, Lois, Asa, Benjamin, Luther, Alice, Joanna, Mary and Rufus.
On July 1, 1833, he was married to Mahala Clark in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Daniel Clark and Lydia Holden.
They had five children: Alfred Clark, Joseph Fay, Samuel Lorenzo, Francis Atherton and Harriet Ellen
They resided in Watertown, Massachusetts by 1834; and eventually moved to Tuftonboro, Carroll, New Hampshire after 1842.
In 1850 he bought what was known as Cow Island, but later known as Bean Island on Lake Winnipesaukee (New Hampshire), and moved his family there. Being a Quaker of strong convictions, he wanted his family to be removed from the influence of the then "frivolous ways” of young people. In 1855 he sold the dairy farm on the Island and moved west. He had proposed in New Hampshire and carried a money belt with $10,000 around his waist. They traveled by train, not wishing to suffer the hardships of his cousin who went in the Bean Wagon Train of that year. The train stopped at Galena, Illinois and from there they traveled by side-wheeler to the Mississippi River and up that to Hastings, Minnesota. The last part of their journey to Lakeville, Minnesota in Eureka Township was made by covered wagon and a couple yoke of oxen. At Lakeville he purchased 1,000 acres of land around Bean Lake.
Mahala passed away on December 15, 1874 at their home in Faribault, Rice, Minnesota. She was laid to rest in the Greenwood Cemetery, near Lakeville. The epitaph on Mahala's Headstone read: "Enshrined within this human form an angel's virtues lay."
Three years later, Samuel remarried to Jeanette Wood, widow of John Hulett, and daughter of Charles and Placencia Wood.
Samuel passed on October 6, 1891 in Lakeville, Dakota, Minnesota. He was laid to rest alongside Mahala in the Greenwood Cemetery. The epitaph on Samuel's Headstone read: "The world was better for his living."
Jeanette died three days later on October 9, 1891. She was laid to rest alongside her first husband, John Hulett.
Samuel Pike Bean was born to Michaiah Bean and Eunice Pike on May 2, 1810, in Waterboro, York, Maine. He had ten brothers and sisters: Sarah, Ira, Lois, Asa, Benjamin, Luther, Alice, Joanna, Mary and Rufus.
On July 1, 1833, he was married to Mahala Clark in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Daniel Clark and Lydia Holden.
They had five children: Alfred Clark, Joseph Fay, Samuel Lorenzo, Francis Atherton and Harriet Ellen
They resided in Watertown, Massachusetts by 1834; and eventually moved to Tuftonboro, Carroll, New Hampshire after 1842.
In 1850 he bought what was known as Cow Island, but later known as Bean Island on Lake Winnipesaukee (New Hampshire), and moved his family there. Being a Quaker of strong convictions, he wanted his family to be removed from the influence of the then "frivolous ways” of young people. In 1855 he sold the dairy farm on the Island and moved west. He had proposed in New Hampshire and carried a money belt with $10,000 around his waist. They traveled by train, not wishing to suffer the hardships of his cousin who went in the Bean Wagon Train of that year. The train stopped at Galena, Illinois and from there they traveled by side-wheeler to the Mississippi River and up that to Hastings, Minnesota. The last part of their journey to Lakeville, Minnesota in Eureka Township was made by covered wagon and a couple yoke of oxen. At Lakeville he purchased 1,000 acres of land around Bean Lake.
Mahala passed away on December 15, 1874 at their home in Faribault, Rice, Minnesota. She was laid to rest in the Greenwood Cemetery, near Lakeville. The epitaph on Mahala's Headstone read: "Enshrined within this human form an angel's virtues lay."
Three years later, Samuel remarried to Jeanette Wood, widow of John Hulett, and daughter of Charles and Placencia Wood.
Samuel passed on October 6, 1891 in Lakeville, Dakota, Minnesota. He was laid to rest alongside Mahala in the Greenwood Cemetery. The epitaph on Samuel's Headstone read: "The world was better for his living."
Jeanette died three days later on October 9, 1891. She was laid to rest alongside her first husband, John Hulett.
Samuel Pike Bean (1810-1891)
Samuel Pike Bean was born to Michaiah Bean and Eunice Pike on May 2, 1810, in Waterboro, York, Maine. He had ten brothers and sisters: Sarah, Ira, Lois, Asa, Benjamin, Luther, Alice, Joanna, Mary and Rufus.
On July 1, 1833, he was married to Mahala Clark in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Daniel Clark and Lydia Holden.
They had five children: Alfred Clark, Joseph Fay, Samuel Lorenzo, Francis Atherton and Harriet Ellen
They resided in Watertown, Massachusetts by 1834; and eventually moved to Tuftonboro, Carroll, New Hampshire after 1842.
In 1850 he bought what was known as Cow Island, but later known as Bean Island on Lake Winnipesaukee (New Hampshire), and moved his family there. Being a Quaker of strong convictions, he wanted his family to be removed from the influence of the then "frivolous ways” of young people. In 1855 he sold the dairy farm on the Island and moved west. He had proposed in New Hampshire and carried a money belt with $10,000 around his waist. They traveled by train, not wishing to suffer the hardships of his cousin who went in the Bean Wagon Train of that year. The train stopped at Galena, Illinois and from there they traveled by side-wheeler to the Mississippi River and up that to Hastings, Minnesota. The last part of their journey to Lakeville, Minnesota in Eureka Township was made by covered wagon and a couple yoke of oxen. At Lakeville he purchased 1,000 acres of land around Bean Lake.
Mahala passed away on December 15, 1874 at their home in Faribault, Rice, Minnesota. She was laid to rest in the Greenwood Cemetery, near Lakeville. The epitaph on Mahala's Headstone read: "Enshrined within this human form an angel's virtues lay."
Three years later, Samuel remarried to Jeanette Wood, widow of John Hulett, and daughter of Charles and Placencia Wood.
Samuel passed on October 6, 1891 in Lakeville, Dakota, Minnesota. He was laid to rest alongside Mahala in the Greenwood Cemetery. The epitaph on Samuel's Headstone read: "The world was better for his living."
Jeanette died three days later on October 9, 1891. She was laid to rest alongside her first husband, John Hulett.
Samuel Pike Bean was born to Michaiah Bean and Eunice Pike on May 2, 1810, in Waterboro, York, Maine. He had ten brothers and sisters: Sarah, Ira, Lois, Asa, Benjamin, Luther, Alice, Joanna, Mary and Rufus.
On July 1, 1833, he was married to Mahala Clark in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Daniel Clark and Lydia Holden.
They had five children: Alfred Clark, Joseph Fay, Samuel Lorenzo, Francis Atherton and Harriet Ellen
They resided in Watertown, Massachusetts by 1834; and eventually moved to Tuftonboro, Carroll, New Hampshire after 1842.
In 1850 he bought what was known as Cow Island, but later known as Bean Island on Lake Winnipesaukee (New Hampshire), and moved his family there. Being a Quaker of strong convictions, he wanted his family to be removed from the influence of the then "frivolous ways” of young people. In 1855 he sold the dairy farm on the Island and moved west. He had proposed in New Hampshire and carried a money belt with $10,000 around his waist. They traveled by train, not wishing to suffer the hardships of his cousin who went in the Bean Wagon Train of that year. The train stopped at Galena, Illinois and from there they traveled by side-wheeler to the Mississippi River and up that to Hastings, Minnesota. The last part of their journey to Lakeville, Minnesota in Eureka Township was made by covered wagon and a couple yoke of oxen. At Lakeville he purchased 1,000 acres of land around Bean Lake.
Mahala passed away on December 15, 1874 at their home in Faribault, Rice, Minnesota. She was laid to rest in the Greenwood Cemetery, near Lakeville. The epitaph on Mahala's Headstone read: "Enshrined within this human form an angel's virtues lay."
Three years later, Samuel remarried to Jeanette Wood, widow of John Hulett, and daughter of Charles and Placencia Wood.
Samuel passed on October 6, 1891 in Lakeville, Dakota, Minnesota. He was laid to rest alongside Mahala in the Greenwood Cemetery. The epitaph on Samuel's Headstone read: "The world was better for his living."
Jeanette died three days later on October 9, 1891. She was laid to rest alongside her first husband, John Hulett.
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"The world was better for his living"
