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Note: s of Mexico, Lay's The Lives of Ellis P. Bean and Memoir by Ellis P. Bean). Peter Ellis Bean was born in Grainger County, Tennessee 8 Jun 1783, probably at or near "Bean's Station." He was the son of William Bean Jr. (possibly the III), who was the son of Capt. William (1721-1782) and Lydia Russell (1726-ca. 1790) Bean, first settlers of current Tennessee and friends of Daniel Boone. Peter Ellis Bean is thought to be a first cousin of Sarah (Sallie) Bean, wife of Benjamin Selman, the fourth great granduncle of the author, (WLM). Sarah Bean, born 6 Mar 1798 in FranklinCo, Georgia, was the daughter of Captain Robert (1764-1824) and Martha Womack (1754-ca. 1845) Bean. Capt. Robert Bean is believed to be the Robert Bean who was a son of William and Lydia Russell Bean, who had documented children William Jr., Robert, George, Russell and Sarah and probably a Jane, John, Jesse and Edmund. [Some researchers believe that this Robert Bean was son of John Bean, a brother of William Bean.] Capt. Robert Bean fought at the Battle of Kings Mountain and killed British Major Fraser at Musgroves Hill in 1780 in the Revolutionary War. Peter Ellis Bean was the son of William Bean Jr. whose activities are difficult to precisely dissect from his father and the numerous other William Beans in Tennessee history. He is believed to have owned land around Bean's Station on German Creek which was established in 1778 by Jesse and Robert Bean and possibly other Bean relations. William Jr. is thought to have been captain of a militia company at the Battle of Kings Mountain. William Bean Jr. (d. 1798) had children Ahab, William, Fenta, Edmund, Elizabeth, Jesse and Lydia in addition to Peter Ellis Bean. Peter Ellis Bean's uncle Edmund Bean, who was a Revolutionary soldier, was killed by Indians in 1807, but his widow whose maiden name was Margaret Ellis died at age 81 in WashingtonCo, Arkansas. It is conceivable that Peter's mother was also an Ellis from which he received his middle name. A letter of 1837 from Nashville from an apparent nephew of Peter Ellis Bean, Edmund Bean, refers to the death of "uncle Russell Been" in August of 1826. According to author Martha Crabb, Russell Bean, brother of William Bean Jr., was killed by a knife wound in WashingtonCo, TN on 9 Jan 1826, it is unclear whether the letter was in reference to this Russell Bean. Benjamin Selman (b. 17 Nov 1795 ElbertCo, GA-5 Jan 1873 CherokeeCo, TX) was the son of Thomas and Jemimah Greenlease Selman of VA, GA, SC and eventually FranklinCo, TN. Ben Selman met and married Sarah Bean in FranklinCo, TN ca. 1817. He served with the TN Mounted Volunteers under Gen. Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812 in Gen. John Coffee's division and moved to BentonCo, AL in the mid-1830's, abt 1845 the family moved to CherokeeCo, TX and along with relatives Stafford, Thomas and Willis Selman settled around Alto. Ben Selman was CherokeeCo's first elected member of the TX legislature. Benjamin Selman and Sarah Bean Selman are buried in a separately fenced plot of largely Boyd sites in the cemetery next to the Old Palestine Church outside Alto, CherokeeCo, TX which they helped found in 1844-1845. After the death of his Sarah Bean Selman in 1868, Ben Selman, age 74, married a 24 year old Sarah Ann, maiden name unknown, which was understandably resented by his children with Sarah Bean. In 1870, a letter from Benjamin Selman, a member of the Texas Legislature from CherokeeCo, to his daughter Sarah Lewis: "I don't go anyplace but Artamacia Boons and James McNiels and sister Nancy Evans. Nancy is mighty pleased with my wife she says. She gets around well and can get rid of business fast and you know that suits Nancy. She loves work." [Nancy Selman, sister of Benjamin Selman, wife of Evan Evans, is the fourth greatgrandmother of the author, WLM, Artemesia Selman was the wife of Reuben H. Boone]. For a comprehensive, Se
Note: (Adapted and modified from Thrall's Pictorial History of Texas, Timmon's Morelo
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