Individual Details

Patriot of the American Revolutionary War, D.A.R. record A008025. Known to have supplied flour and iron products to the Continental Army. Mordecai was in Frederick County as early as 1767, and he purchased large acreages of land between 1771 & 1779 which eventually became the Bean homeplace. His family-line was of Scottish origin and Mordecai became rich (his is the only tablet-style tomb in the cemetery) overseeing the production of the iron furnace, located on his property across the road, with Isaac Zane, Jr.

His children, as listed in his Will, were James (Sr.), Isaac (War of 1812 soldier), Betsey (Elizabeth Frye), Peggy (Margaret Richards), and Sally (Sarah Cartmell).

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Buried St Johns Lutheran Church Cemetery; Hayfield, Frederick Co, VA
Inscription
In Memory of Mordecai Bean Who departed this life Nov 28 1814 Aged 70 years and 8 months "Here, O my feeble limbs here willingly lay, until that great and awful rising day, In which you shall never more be Subject to pain nor dread mortality Long have you served and answered my ends, But now you shall rest until time shall end O, how many changes have you not here seen, And all but vanity and vexation of spirit have bean."

Gravesite Details Birth date & place are from D.A.R. records.

Birth	28 Mar 1738	Chester County, Pennsylvania
Marriage	Abt 1772	Frederick County, Virginia - Judith Hammond
Death	28 Nov 1814	Frederick County, Virginia

Spouse	Judith Hammond (1753 - 1840)
Child	Elizabeth "Betsy" Bean (1777 - 1838)
Child	Sarah Bean (1781 - 1830)