Adeline “Addie” Jackman Bean (1804-1869)

Adeline “Addie” Jackman Bean

Birth

4 Jul 1804

Boscawen, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA

Death

16 Aug 1869 (aged 65)

Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA

Burial

Lowell Cemetery

Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Show Map

Plot

Washington Ave

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The birthdate of 1802, on her gravestone is incorrect. Adeline Jackman was born in Boscawen, NH to Samuel Jackman, Jr. and his wife, Hannah Flanders, on the 4th of July, in 1804. She was the oldest of their 8 children. When she was 10, in 1814, during a severely cold winter, an epidemic of spotted fever swept through Boscawen, and five of her siblings died, ages three to nine, just leaving Addie and her youngest sister, eight month old Emeline. (Another sister was born the following year, Caroline on December 9, 1815.) How devastating for that family.

On February 28, 1821, when she was sixteen, she married Samuel Bean from Danbury, NH. They would have 13 children. The children below have been identified. There was one more daughter born between 1820 and 1830, and one more son, also born between 1820 and 1830, that have not been identified. The children were:

Lathrop, 1823-1870;
Louisa, born 1829, married Ezekiel Callman/Calman;
Livonia, 1831-1893;
Josephus, 1832-1886;
Hannah, 1834-1860;
Elizabeth, 1837-1860;
Lyman, 1839-1864;
Leroy, 1841-1894;
Walter, 1842-1907;
Mary, 1845-1855; and
Anna Marie, 1847 -1912.

In 1835 the family moved to the mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, where Addie's husband was a teamster and they owned a farm. They lived there the rest of their lives.

Three sons fought for the Union in the Civil War, Leroy, Lyman, and Walter. Lyman was wounded in 1864 and died a short while later. The other two sons survived. The oldest child, Lathrop, moved to Texas and was a Southern sympathizer.

Three daughters died young, at ages 10, 13 and 26. It must have been hard for their mother, as well as the rest of the family.

Adeline died of congestion of the lungs in Boston. Her funeral was held at the Worthen Street M. E. Church in Boston.

Sources ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org.