In a message dated 8/5/2003 4:25:48 PM US Mountain Standard Time, p38lite@earthlink.net writes: > HILLEARYs and BEANs were living in Council Bluffs > in the early 1800's and I have it that Nancy Hilleary and William Bean > were married and raised a fairly sizable brood and were burried in > Walnut Hill Cemetery. Before they passed on, their home was at 228 > Harmony street, Council Bluffs IA. I have all of this from a letter, > writen in 1891, passed on to me from my grandmother. She was looking > for Hillearys at the time and the only Bean data is Williams birth, Jan > 4,1810. > I think that the William H. Bean who lived at 228 Harmony was the son of William and Nancy Bean. William H. Bean (son of William and Nancy) married Sarah Jane Caughey at Council Bluffs on 28 June 1884. In the 1880 census for Council Bluffs, Iowa, there is the following: William Bean, 71, b. MO, gardener, father b. MO, mother b. MO Nancy Bean, 69, b. VA, father b. VA, mother b. VA, wife Wm. H. Bean, son, 34, b. IA, miner Thomas Able, other, 19, b. WY, miner The 1924 city directory for Council Bluffs, Iowa, has the following: Wm. H. and Sarah Bean, residence 228 Harmony. Wm. E. and Katherine Bean, cashier, resides 143 Baughn. The 1926 directory has: Wm. H. and Sarah J. Bean, residence 228 Harmony. Wm. E. and Kath Bean, residence 143 Baughn By 1931, Wm. H. is no longer shown in the directory. It lists only: Wm. E. and Kath Bean, home 143 Baughn Sarah Bean, widow Wm. H., home 228 Harmony Armilda Bean, student, resides 143 Baughn Mona Sarratt Knight