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William Bean's Will, with our grandfather present, and Russell Bean being mentioned.
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In the name of God Amen. I William Bean Sen. Being in perfect mind and memory and calling to mind the mortality of my own body and knowing that it is appointed for all men to die do make and ordain this to be my last will & testament revoking all others by me made. First principally and first of all I give and bequeath my soul to almighty God relying on his mercy through Christ and my body to the dust from whence it came & as touching my worldly estate wherewith it has been please to God to bless me with in this life. I give and bequeath in the following manner & form first of all I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Liddy one negroe girl named Grace and all my horses & cattle & hoggs & sheep & all my household goods together with the land and mill whereon I now live during her natural life & after her decease the land and mill to be given to my beloved son, Russell & the remainder that is given to my beloved wife at her decease to be equally divided amongst my children and all the residue and remainder of my estate real and personal after my just debts being paid to be equally divided amongst my surviving children. Also I leave my sons William & Robert and George executors of this my last will.
William [his X mark] Bean {Seal}
Signed, Sealed published & declared in the presence of us
This 6th day of January 1782
Thomas Hardeman
John [is F mark] Callehan
Robert Stone
"its all a dream" is a recent 30x40 inch oil painting i did on stretched canvas. that tree no longer exists as it fell from a lightning strike a year ago. dont fret because this is all a dream anyway
When their Nashville Pike home burned, the Figuers family purchased Boxmere—still standing today at 903 W. Main Street in Franklin.
Home of young Hardin Figuers, he climbed a tree in the front yard to watch the Battle of Franklin. During the battle, Boxmere sat just 100 yards inside the Federal breastworks and was taken over as headquarters by Union General William Grose.
For safety, Mrs. Figuers took her daughters down the hill, while her sons remained in the basement with an enslaved servant. When the fighting paused, the boys would climb trees to witness the battle. Sadly, the giant white oak tree that survived so many years had to be removed this year.
Hardin later wrote:
“I spent the entire afternoon… seeing all that could be seen. When the first assault was made, bullets were flying everywhere, and I retreated to the cellar.”
A shell from the Bostick home struck the house above them.
After the battle, Boxmere became a Confederate hospital, filling with wounded soldiers. The boys gathered bedding and built fires, urging their mother to return and care for the injured. She would go on to lead relief efforts, including nearby St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.
Hardin later described the aftermath:
“The first dead person I found was a little Yankee boy, about my own age… The sight of this dead boy somehow impressed me more than the thousands of dead I was soon to look upon.”
Included in the Hincheyville Historic District, Boxmere was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. A small cabin for the enslaved from the property is preserved today at the Carter House."
Pedigree Collapse Our cousin Thomas first marriage
Thomas second marriage
Everbright Mansion in Franklin, Tennessee was named for the lamplight Mrs. Bostik always kept glowing in each of its windows at night ...
Our cousin, Thomas Hardeman, had neighbors named Richard and Rebecca Bolstick. Richard was his distant cousin; like us, they were descendants of the Perkins family. He married a daughter of Newton Cannon, the governor of Tennessee, who succeeded your cousin, President James K. Polk. Our uncle, John Hardeman, ran against Cannon in an earlier political race and lost. Cannon himself was married to another distant Perkins cousin of ours
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