   Wm. H. Bean 1 June 1831 - 1 August 1914 Harriett Jordon Bean 20 December 1836 - 27 December 1891
The Whitewright Sun
Friday, August 7, 1914 pg. 1 Capt. Wm. H. Bean died suddenly at his home in Howe last Saturday from the effects of a stroke of paralysis. Capt. Bean was one of the early settlers of this county and is known to the surviving pioneers of this section of Texas. He was born in 1834 [sic] at Tuscumbia, Alabama and came to Texas in 1853, stopping first at old Kentuckytown, where he erected an ox mill, the first put up in this county. Four years later he moved to Farmington and built a grist mill. He prospered and in later years was in the banking business in Sherman, Van Alstyne and Howe, being president of the Farmers National Bank of Howe at the time of his death. He was a town builder and gave liberally to all public and benevolent enterprises, schools and churches. The funeral at Hall cemetery west of Howe Sunday was attended by hundreds of his Grayson county friends, among them more than fifty from Sherman.  Hall Cemetery Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |
