Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bean, Helen (McWayne) January 9, 1919 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Wheaton wheaton1624@yahoo.com July 12, 2016, 11:19 am Daily Sentinel - Saturday, Jan. 11, 1919 FUNERAL FOR MRS. HELEN BEAN The remains of Mrs. Helen Bean, widow of the late Charles Bean, will arrive on the seven o'clock train this evening, and will be accompanied by a friend of Mrs. Bean, Mrs. Graves of Grand Rapids. The funeral will be attended at the Bradley mortuary on Sunday afternoon at two o'clock, Rev. C.C. Buckner officiating, and the interment will be in the family lot in Oak Hill cemetery. Mrs. Bean has very few near relatives, the closest being two grandsons, with one of whom, Morton Welch, she has made her home in Nashville, Tenn., the other, Willis Welch, being in the army in France. Mrs. Bean was one of the old and well-known pioneer women of Ionia, and had lived here for more than forty years, for twenty-five of which, she had lived in the home on East Main street. In her early years of residence here, she was a dressmaker and milliner, well known to the older inhabitants of Ionia. Additional Comments: Mrs. Charles Age: 84 Funeral: Sunday 12 January 1919 Oak Hill cemetery 1st husband: Squire Welch 2nd husband: Chas. Bean 1st marr & div - Squire Welch bef 1860 census 1880 Ionia Census Bean Charles 62 - NY " Helen 46 - NY b. abt. 1834 Rhoda 71 - VT mother of Helen (Mcquain is McWayne) Bean Sherman 16 Tenn: death certif. widow Helen M. Bean b. March 14, 1835 NY - d. Jan. 9, 1919 Nashville, Tenn - 84 yr. dau. of McWayne - signed by friend, M.B. Welch of Montgomery, Ala. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/bean33230nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb