Fee McCorkle's family |
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JEFF BEAN: all I know about Jeff Bean has been told me by my mom Joyce [Joyce Cope Huie, born 1915] and Joyce's mother [Notie Headden Cope, 1886-1984]. Uriah C. Hendricks emigrated from the Piedmont of North Carolina to Dyer County. Uriah's first wife was Mary (Polly) McMahon, who trekked with Uriah by ox cart to Dyer County from NC and was the mother of his children, one of whom was my Narcissus Elizabeth Hendricks (Mrs. Wilson Newberry Cope). Then, when Uriah C. Hendrick's 1st wife died, he wanted to marry his sister-in-law Temperance McMahon. By then, though, Temperance McMahon was a widow Mrs. Mumford Bean and had moved up to (my mother Joyce Cope Huie thinks) Indiana. So, Uriah C. Hendricks went up north to fetch "Aunt Tempe" down to Dyer County. Uriah C. Hendricks, male, married Tempe McMahon Bean in Dyer County on 9 December 1873. "Aunt Tempe" McMahon Bean brought with her down to Tennessee a freed slave, Jeff Bean. My mother says Jeff Bean was a well respected farmer who lived peacably in the Churchton Community, farming with a home situated on a lane that used to run from the Union Grove School straight south to Churchton. Joyce Cope [Huie] and her grandmother Narcissus visited there often and sometimes ate lunch with the Beans.
The 1900 Dyer County census says the following about Jeff Bean:
Fee McCorkle, freedman |
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