Jeff Bean's family &
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:
Jeff Bean, aged 41, born North Carolina 1859 [before the Civil War] of parents who were also born in N.C. His wife is listed as Ellie, born 1868, although Joyce Huie says that is not what the wife was called.
Children:
Son Roscoe, born 1887. Joyce says that Roscoe was a contemporary and friend of the white Errett Cotton McCorkle, born 1886. They played together as children and met up in Chicago and St. Louis after Errett McCorkle moved north. Roscoe Bean as a child lived right by Union Grove School but presumably wasn't allowed to be a student there because of his skin color.
Daughter Tempe Bean, born 1891, named after Temperance McMahon Bean Hendricks.
Daughter Birdie Bean, born 1894.
Daughter Mary Bean, born 1899.

--Jeff Bean is in the 1900 census as living next to Winfield Scott Headden & wife Ada Taylor Headden and their children Notie Headden [Mrs. Ira Cope], Elmer Headden, and Gladys Headden [Mrs. Muncie Smith].

I know Jeff Bean is buried in the McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer County.


Fee McCorkle, freedman

According to 1900 U.S. census records, Fee McCorkle, male, was born September 1844, before the Civil War. Fee was aged 55 in 1900.
Living with him in 1900 were:
Daughter Bula, born 1883;
Son Orv, born September 1886
Daughter Nettie McCorkle, born June 1889
Dauaghter Azie McCorkle, born July 1891.

I know Fee McCorkle is buried in the McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer Co., Tenn.


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