This is an interesting newspaper article below: Gay Mathis Newspaper Abstracts Overton Sharpshooter, Rusk County, Texas Submitted by: John Dulin, Henderson, Texas October 13,1887 Death: There has resided in this city, Bonham, Fannin Co., a gentleman known as Col. T.C. Bean, a bachelor, who amassed a princely fortune. Bean died a few weeks ago and no one knew his heirs. A gentleman from Mississippi named J.W. Saunders has shown up at Bonham saying he is the only brother of Col. Bean, whose real name was Saunders. (Paper is torn here and part is missing.) Apparently in 1835, in Obion Co., when aged 24 or 25, T.C. Bean killed a chain carrier named Cruthfield in an argument over not accomplishing his work. T.C. took refuge on Bean Island in the Mississippi River. The brother, J.W. was then an engineer on a riverboat and took T.C. to Gains Landing in Arkansas, returning to Old Commerce. From Gaines Landing, T.C. fled to Camden, Arkansas, then Fayetteville and on to Fannin County. T.C. and J.W. met in St Louis in 1854 or 1855, and again in Austin, Tx. in 1886, and in Bonham in 1884. T.C. agreed to give half of his estate, at his death, to J.W. with the oth! er half to his negroe servants, but if J.W. died first, then to J.W.'s children. J.W. had a daughter, then living in Lamar Co., Tx. The father of T.C. and J.W. went to N.C. circa 1882 to collect some money, and was never heard from again. Dr. J.J. McBride said that he will swear to the identity of Tom Bean, stating that he (Bean) is Saunders and that his (Dr. McBride's) wife was a sister of Col. Bean. Capt. F.J. Gates, who it is asserted, will testify that Col. Bean told this story to him, which is now being recited by Saunders. (p3 c1)