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 1813 - 1898 (85 years)
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| Name |
John Biehn [1] |
| Born |
12 May 1813 |
Doon, Waterloo County, Ontario  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
17 Aug 1898 |
Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario |
| Age: 85y 3m 5d |
| Buried |
Stauffer Cemetery, Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario |
| Person ID |
I17326 |
All |
| Last Modified |
24 Nov 2009 |
| Family |
Anna Scheirich, b. 25 Oct 1818, Waterloo County, Ontario , d. 31 Mar 1881, Wilmot Township, near Haysville, Ontario (Age 62 years) |
| Children |
| | 1. Barbara Bean, b. Abt 1834, Canada , d. Aft 1898 (Age ~ 65 years) |
| | 2. Nancy Bean, b. Abt 1837, Ontario , d. 1873 (Age ~ 36 years) |
| | 3. Levi S. Bean, b. Abt 1839, Canada , d. at age 17 years - a runaway accident |
| | 4. John S. Bean, b. Abt 1841, Canada , d. Aft 1898 (Age ~ 58 years) |
| | 5. Noah S. Biehn, b. 31 Mar 1843, Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario , d. 13 May 1908, Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario (Age 65 years) |
| + | 6. George S. Bean, b. 4 Jul 1845, Canada , d. 1931 (Age 85 years) |
| | 7. Henry S. Bean, b. Abt 1848, Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario |
| + | 8. David S. Bean, b. 29 Dec 1850, d. Aft 1898 (Age > 49 years) |
| | 9. Isaac S. Bean, b. Abt 1855, Ontario , d. Aft 1898 (Age ~ 44 years) |
| | 10. Elizabeth Bean, b. 08 Jan 1859, Ontario , d. 06 Dec 1914, Waterloo, Waterloo County, Ontario (Age 55 years) |
| | 11. Simon S. Bean, b. 20 Dec 1859, d. Abt 1860, Died in infancy (Age 0 years) |
| | 12. John Bean |
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| Last Modified |
23 Nov 2009 |
| Family ID |
F4624 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- From Ezra Eby Book
John Bean, "the fifth member in the family, was born about the year 1812. He was married to Annie, daughter of John and Barbara (Groh) Sheirich. She was born October 25th, 1818. After their marriage they moved to Wilmot Township, near Haysville, Ontario, where she died March 31st, 1881. To them was born a family of eleven children.
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Found at http://www.waterlooogs.ca/newsletters/1996/BNFEB96.htm on October 12, 2006
THE BEAN FAMILY CAIRN
(This stone cairn is located southwest of Haysville, Wilmot Township, on the northwest corner at the intersection of Wilmot Twp. roads 8 and 13. The cairn was dedicated on Sunday, Sept. 24, 1995.)
[Side One]
GENERATION 1 -- John Biehn and his wife, natives of Switzerland, and their six year old son came to America in the year of 1742. After a long and perilous crossing of the Atlantic on an overcrowded ship, taking three months and battling sickness and starvation, they finally reached America. They settled in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
GENERATION 2 -- John Biehn came with his parents from Europe at six years of age and married Barbara Fried, raised a family in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, most of whom settled there. One son, John, and his bride, Nancy Bechtel, and one daughter, Barbara, married to Dilmon Kinzie moved to Upper Canada, Ontario in the year 1800. They purchased a large tract of fertile land along the Grand River to be cleared for agricultural purposes. Their journey took months in a covered wagon train of nine Conestoga wagons with neighbours and friends seeking a home in Canada. This journey through mountains, crossing the Niagara River and following trails where no roads existed took five months.
GENERATION 3 -- John Biehn, who came to Canada from Pennsylvania in the year 1800, along with his father and brother-in-law, Dilmon Kinzie, purchased a large tract of land along the Grand River in the Doon area. They cleared the land and started farming. These pioneers are buried in the pioneer cemetery known as ?Biehn-Kinzie? near the banks of the Grand River.
GENERATION 4 -- John Biehn, son of John Biehn -- 3, whose oldest sister, Mary, was the first white child born in Waterloo County, left his family settlement at Doon following the opening of the newly historic Huron Road to Haysville where he purchased 200 acres of wooded acres of land in the year 1833 from the Crown, located one mile southwest of Haysville.
Constructed by
Paul Obert
Stone Mason
Drumbo, Ont., August 1995
[Side Two]
THE BEAN FAMILY
This cairn is placed here by the descendants of the John Bean family. Originally spelled Biehn.
John Biehn with his bride Anna Sheirich arrived in Wilmot Township from Doon, Ontario in 1883. He purchased a 200 acre block of wooded forest from the Crown -- Lot 24, Concession 3 -- for 125 English pounds... 1 mile south west of Haysville.
As required by all pioneer families on Crown land, part of the purchase price was to build a log house and clear as many acres of land for agricultural purposes. Here they lived the rest of their lives. They were blessed with eleven children.
Being strong in their religious faith, they early set aside a half acre of their farm for meeting house which was known for nearly a century as the Biehn Mennonite Church, now the Nith Valley Church.
Anna Sheirich Bean died in 1881 -- age 63.
John Bean died in 1898 -- age 86.
They are buried in this cemetery with many of their descendants.
Their children are as follows:
One son, Simon, died in infancy.
The eldest son, Levl [sic], died at 17 years of age as a result of a runaway team accident.
A second daughter, Nancy married Charles Daniells residing in Virginia, USA, died in 1873.
Those surviving at the time of their father?s death were:
Barbara from Michigan.
John from Detroit.
Noah lives on part of the homestead.
George lives on a farm south of Haysville.
Henry lives on a farm west of New Hamburg.
Isaac lives on the homestead.
David lives in Waterloo. Editor and owner of Waterloo Chronicle.
Elizabeth lives at home.
At the time of John Bean?s death, there were 50 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
The stones for the cairn have come from the original Bean homestead and the farms of their descendants.
Erected in 1995
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