Hi Betty. I hope to meet you someday but the Chilton Historical Soc. always seems to meet on days I'm working. This family would seem to be the one I'm working on, but Peggy Murrah and her mother have been interveiwd SO___ many times that the info from them is suspect. At 08:19 AM 10/5/99 -0500, you wrote: >David, > Nancy Ann Amanda Bean (1829 - 20 March 1902) was born in Butts >Co., GA, the daughter of Wiley Jackson Bean and Julia Ann Crew. > She married 16 August 1849 in Coosa Co., AL, William "Bill" Murrah >(1827 - ). He was born in Coosa Co., AL, (parents unknown). > He died of a fever in Mississippi, date unknown. She died during an >epidemic in Mississippi; no further information. According to Alfred P. >Murrah�s biography, they died in Mississippi shortly after the Civil >War. > William Murrah was a witness for Julia Ann Crew in application for >bounty land, July 1856. > >Sources: >Marriage of William Murray to Nancy Ann Amanda Bean, Coosa Co., AL Marr. > >Bk. B, p. 61; McGalliard, Marriage Records of Coosa County, Alabama >1834-1865 (Weogufka, AL: McGalliard, 1972), p. 93. > >Collins/ Bean family traditions passed to compiler by Akins Irving >Collins. >Information of Peggy Murrah in 1997 and given to compiler by Marilyn >Bean Jones. > >Creek War Bounty Land Records for Wiley J. Bean. Copy in possession of >compiler. > > Hope this can be of some little help. I would like to hear more >about this couple. > >Betty Collins Note change of email address from >EHGCollins@aol.com to >hgcejc@earthlink.net > > > > > > David Dennis, Proud Roosweb Donor