Forwarded from the message boards. If you can help, please respond back to the board through the link listed below: This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ldB.2ACI/2537 Message Board Post: This is from Jack Heck's records: Wm. Bean - Ireland 1730 - was a veteran of the American Revolution. He is the tie if you want to join the DAR or SAR. That is all I have on him - anyone have more details? I would really like to find out more, esp. about his Rev War experiences. His daughter was Betsy Bean (1757-Aug 1, 1825) who married Robert Bole (Boles?) 1755-Jan 14, 1821. Their daughter was Margaret Bole/Boles who maried David Linn, Jr. Their daughter Nancy R. Linn, born 1823 in Salem Twp. nr. Greenville, Pa. (Mercer Cty), died June 25, 1904/5. In July 4, 1846, Nancy Linn married Alexander Dumars Gillespie, Atty. (born Oct 10, 1822 in Greenville, Pa., died Apr 17, 1902 in Greenville) I have his lifelong journal - plan to prepare it for publication, but am pretty slow moving at getting it done. When Alex was six y.o., his family moved to Big Bend nr Clark, Pa. on the Shenango River, south of Greenville. That farm is now under the water of a large dam. When he started as an atty., he had 75 cents to his name. He married Eleanor (Ella) Davidson, b. Jan 28, 1857, in Sharon, Pa. and died Jan 10, 1907 in Greenville. Theirs was a stormy marriage and she is famous for throwing all her dishes against the barn in a fit of pique. Probably coping with four rowdy boys didn't exactly soothe her. disposition. They are both buried in Greenville's Shenango Valley cemetary on top of the first hill where you enter. Other family members are buried there, but I don't recall which ones, except Stanley and Bess, my uncle and aunt. Their sons were Alfred D ( for Dumars ? ), Alexander J. (Yng. atty), Cassius R. who died age 16 at Edinboro Normal School (college), and Eugene Pierce Gillespie, my grandfather, (born Sept 24, 1853 (52?), died Dec. 17, 1899 in Greenville. He had attended Allegheny College (1868-70) and St. Michael's College in Toronto (1870-72), was a popular attorney and member of the 52nd Congress 1891-93. They lived on South Mercer St. in Greenville. He was killed by a train.