Dolphus Skinner Bean (1824 - 1908)

Born 26 Feb 1824 in Waterloo, Warner, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States

Ancestors

Died 10 Oct 1908 at age 84 in Warner, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States

Biography

Dolphus Bean is a member of Clan MacBean.

On Monday, October 12, 1908, there were gathered at the Old Home those of the family, neighbors and friends who could be there for the funeral services of Dolphus Bean.

Soft and sympathetic music stilled the company, the words of scripture afforded hope and promise, a prayer brought comfort. The sons were necessarily far away in Montana, but present was Mrs. Mahala (Bean) Grant [his daughter] and Mrs. Nancy (Bean) Ordway, Dolphus' sister and wife of Governer Ordway, affectionately intimate since childhood, and now the last surviving child of her generation.

DOLPHUS BEAN TRIBUTE

"Eighty-four years ago, at the Bean Homestead in Waterloo, there was born to Daniel and Nancy Bean, a son, Dolphus, and in the same room on Saturday, October 10, 1908, he died.

During all these years that house had been his home. There, under parental guidance and discipline of the old school, and quite unusual in both its moral and intellectual quality, he led the wholesome life of a farmer's boy, with its delights and its duties; thither he brought a bride, Mahala, whom after a brief year, still a young girl, he laid to rest; thither later he brought his second bride, Annie in the bloom of young womanhood.; there were born to him and to her, three sons, Benning, Daniel and Willard, and a daughter, Mahala.

There this good family was supported and nurtured, while Grandmother Bean was tenderly cared for in her last years; there this worthy couple lived the typical New England life, sharing burdens and joys, uniting to gain and keep a competence, traveling with industry, to the high noon of life, and then in good hope and sympathy proceeding down the western slope.

There in the years not long gone he tenderly cared for the beloved wife, upon whom the weakness of old age and the wasting disease first came; and there he has spent in peace his last years, and as the activities of life have diminished and the world has seemed to recede, he has had the constant ministration of the daughter whose loving voice and touch have sheered the hours and smoothed the way.

A good man and also a noble man, has lived a long life among us in Honor, and has gone hence beloved by all after more than four score years which were his by reason of strength." Written by his nephew, the Honorable George F. Bean, in 1908 on the occasion of Dolphus Bean's death

Sources

See also:

• The Clan MacBean of North America, Volume I, Sixth Edition, Revised 1992, by Joseph S. Bean, page 510
• Source: S-249977682"Ancestry Family Trees," Ancestry.com, Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. tree link