Amelia Harris Blair

1832 - 1912  (79 years)

• Name	Amelia Harris Blair
  Birth	7 Aug 1832	Truro, Colchester, NS
  Gender	Female
  Census	1 Jun 1860	Township 13 N 1 W, Mercer, Illinois ; age 27, born NS
  Fact	3 of 9 children living in 1900
  Death	16 Jun 1912	College Springs, Page, IA
  Burial		Maple Hill Cemetery, College Springs, IA
  Person ID	I4416	Family Tree | 12 Generation Ancestor Chart
  Last Modified	5 Oct 2015

  
  

  Family	Erastus Luster Bean,   b. Nov 1832, Pymatuning, Mercer, PA d. 23 Mar 1914, College Springs, Page, IA (Age ~ 81 years)
  Marriage	1857
  Children	1. Ada P Bean,   b. 1859, Mercer Co, Illinois 2. Emma A Bean,   b. 1860, Illinois d. 1890, Colfax, Page, IA (Age 30 years)   3. Grant Bean,   b. 1866, Colfax, Page, IA d. 1867, Colfax, Page, IA (Age 1 year) 4. Etta Bean,   b. 1870, Colfax, Page, Iowa   5. Jay Bean,   b. 1871, Colfax, Page, IA d. 1874, Colfax, Page, IA (Age 3 years) 6. Ella Bean,   b. 1876, Colfax, Page, Iowa d. Aug 1910, Shenandoah, Page, IA (Age 34 years) 7. Edna Bean,   b. Aug 1879, Colfax, Page, Iowa
  Family ID	F1244	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Oct 2015

  
  

• Notes

  from "The Senandoah Sentinel-Post", 16 Jun 1912 (findagrave.com) MRS. E.L. BEAN, PIONEER, BURIED TUESDAY College Springs, June 22?Mrs. E. L. Bean, who has been rapidly failing for several weeks, died at her home in north College Springs last Sunday afternoon. During her illness she suffered no pain, but gradually grew weaker until she peacefully fell asleep, to awake no more on earth. Amelia Harris Blair was born in Truro, Novia Scotia, August 7, 1832, and died June 16, 1912. In 1841, she came with her parents to Knoxville, Ill. She was married to E. L. Bean in 1859. To this union, eight children were born, four sons, all of whom died in infancy and four daughters, Mrs. Emma Estella Turner, who died in 1890, Mrs. Ella Maud Harland, whose death occured in 1910, Mrs. Etta McGinnis of College Springs and Edna Smith of Aberdeen, S. D. Mrs. Bean came to Page county with her husband in 1865 and has lived in the vicinity of College Springs ever since. At the age of ten years, she joined the Methodist Episcopal church at Knoxville, Ill. She was one of the charter members of the same denomination of this place when the church was first organized here by Rev. Martin in 1867. On last Tuesday afternoon, at 2:30 the funeral took place at the same church conducted by her pastor, Rev. W. H. Shipman. Her body was laid at rest in the west Grove cemetery beside those of her children.