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"The Cleburne News" .
Heflin, Cleburne Co., Alabama 

NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, AUGUST 29, 1935

KINFOLK OF WILLIAM BEAN, PIONEER SETTLER, REUNION AT FRIENDSHIP

A reunion of the descendants of William Bean, pioneer of Benton (Calhoun) 
county, was held at the Friendship school in the community where he settled 
in 1835 after moving here from North Carolina. A number of relatives 
attended the reunion.

Born in 1800, William Bean migrated at the age of 35 from Burke county, N.C. 
to this county, where he resided until his death in November 1860. His 
second wife was Jane Walker who was born in 1820 near Savannah, Ga. and died 
in 1908 in Calhoun county. She was the daughter of A. Jesse Walker who was 
one of the early settlers of east Alabama. Jesse Walker was prominent in the 
public affairs of Benton county, having represented his county in the 
Legislature in the session of 1850-51. He was identified with the States 
Rights party in politics and was an ardent advocate of secession in the 
stormy decade of the fifties.

Related to the Walker family was the Curry family, who migrated with the 
Walkers from Georgia. Dr. J.L.M. Curry, a member of this family, is well 
known both in Alabama and Southern history. Lawyer and Congressman in the 
ante-bellum days he was associated after the War between the States with 
Richmond College, now the University of Richmond, at Richmond, Va. and later 
in life was identified with one of the first foundations for the advancement 
of education among the negroes of the South. Today, he is one of Alabama's 
representatives in Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C. The Walker and Curry 
families were closely related to the Lamar family of Georgia which has been 
prominent in state and national life.

Living today are two daughters of William Bean, Mrs. Susan Hood of Oxford 
and Mrs. I.E. Hubbard of Albertville. Among the descendants present at the 
family reunion were:

Mrs. Hood and Mrs. Willie Anderson and family of Oxford

Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Stovall of Oxford

Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Hood of Birmingham

Mr. and Mrs. J.D. White of Anniston

I.E. Hubbard of Albertville

Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Hearn and family of Albertville

Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Campbell and family of Section

Colonel and Mrs. Walter M. Thompson and family of Gadsden

Mrs. Walker of Attalla

Mrs. J.C. Bean of Heflin

Russell Bean of Birmingham

Mr. and Mrs. W.G. Bean and family of Lexington, Va.

Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Bean of Bowdon, Ga.

Miss Ruth Bean of Heflin

Coleman Smith and famil of Lineville

Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham of Atlanta

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jobson and family

Mr. and Mrs. A.A. Anderson

Miss Vera Jobson of Oxford

"The Anniston Star," Aug. 22

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