This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BEAN/BUSH Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ihB.2ACI/3759.1 Message Board Post: I am just starting to reseach this family for my brother in law. He has a picture of Sarah Bush. Bill, my b-in-law has this to say about the pic: Found a picture of a lady named Sara Bush Bean and according to what was written on the back, she was born about 1812 and was the mother of David "Wash" Bean, daughter of John Bush and Mary Ripetoe. Mom wrote "Bill's Great Great Grandmother" on the back. I think that would make David my Great Grandfather and probably Charles L.'s dad. Don't know where she was born but the writing on the back of the photo just after her birth year either said "Tn" or "In" but there's nothing to follow up with the "in". Don't know. I'm not a rocket scientist but I think there is a connection here. Bill descends from the next to youngest son Charlie L. Bean b. Dec 1, 1877. I don't have much to share at this point but I have a lot of resources available to me through the Mid Continent Public Library's Genealogy Branch here in Independence, MO. Hoping to hear from you shortly - Glenn McAnarney