Individual Details

William Thomas "Red Tom" Bean

(8 Mar 1873 - 12 May 1954)



1910 Census. Cookeville, Putnam, TN, Hh 408
Thomas Bean, 37, married 15 years, b. KY
Mary, wife, 35, 5 children, b. TN
Vallie, dau, 14
Mattie, dau, 13
Minnie, dau, 8
Oliver, son, 5
Laura, dau, 2

1920 Census. 15th Dist., Putnam, TN, Hh 165
Thomas Bean, 46. Mary, 45
Mattie, 22. Minnie, 17. Oliver, 14. Laura, 11. Howard, age 7.

1930 Census. Dist 1, Putnam, TN, Hh 78
Thomas Bean, 57, married at age 21
Mary, wife, 55, married at age 20
Howard, son, 17
Thomas D., son, age 9

12 Sep 1918 World War I Draft Registration
William Thomas Bean of Rt 3, Cookeville, Putnam, TN was born 8 Mar 1873. Farming for himself. Nearest relative was Mary Bean. He made his mark. Medium height, stout build, blue eyes, red hair.

Tennessee Death Certificate 54-10742
William Thomas Bean died at the General Hospital in Cookeville on 12 May 1954 of myocardial infarction - he had heart disease and hypertension. He was 81, born 8 March 1873 in Kentucky. He was married and a retired farmer. His father was Ezekiel Bean, his mother Lucinda Jeffries. T. D. Bean was the informant. Buried Smyrna Cemetery, Cookeville, on May 14th.

Ezekiel Been was born 12 Feb 1844, died 22 Feb 1916 in Middletown, Logan Co, IL. He was born in Tennessee to Eli and Mariah(Kinnaird) Bean and later moved to Kentucky. He married 1st Lucinda Jeffries, and had four children. Lucinda passed away sometime after 1876. At the time of the 1880 census he had married for the second time, to Julia Wysong, and had his four children with them. He had at least eight known children with Julia and by 1910 had moved to Illinois where they resided until their deaths. His death certificate lists the cause of death as stomach cancer and also has his birth as 1847. Buried Irish Grove Cemetery, Middletown, Menard Co, IL.

Events

Birth8 Mar 1873Grayson County, Kentucky
Marriage14 Oct 1894Putnam County, Tennessee - Mary Martha Dyer
Death12 May 1954Cookeville, Putnam County, Tennessee

Families

SpouseMary Martha Dyer (1874 - 1955)
ChildVallie Myrtle Bean (1895 - 1972)
ChildMattie Bean (1898 - )
ChildMinnie Bean (1903 - )
ChildOliver Bean (1906 - )
ChildLaura Bean (1909 - )
ChildLiving
ChildLiving