Clive Stanley Bean

David married Mary Ann Frey on 15 Apr 1869 in Oxford County, Ontario. Mary was born on 09 Nov 1848 in Waterloo County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Ezra Eby Book

John Bean, "the fifth member in the family, was born about the year 1812. He was married to Annie, daughter of John and Barbara (Groh) Sheirich. She was born October 25th, 1818. After their marriage they moved to Wilmot Township, near Haysville, Ontario, where she died March 31st, 1881. To them was born a family of eleven children.

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Found at http://www.waterlooogs.ca/newsletters/1996/BNFEB96.htm on October 12, 2006

THE BEAN FAMILY CAIRN

(This stone cairn is located southwest of Haysville, Wilmot Township, on the northwest corner at the intersection of Wilmot Twp. roads 8 and 13. The cairn was dedicated on Sunday, Sept. 24, 1995.)

[Side One]

GENERATION 1 -- John Biehn and his wife, natives of Switzerland, and their six year old son came to America in the year of 1742. After a long and perilous crossing of the Atlantic on an overcrowded ship, taking three months and battling sickness and starvation, they finally reached America. They settled in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

GENERATION 2 -- John Biehn came with his parents from Europe at six years of age and married Barbara Fried, raised a family in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, most of whom settled there. One son, John, and his bride, Nancy Bechtel, and one daughter, Barbara, married to Dilmon Kinzie moved to Upper Canada, Ontario in the year 1800. They purchased a large tract of fertile land along the Grand River to be cleared for agricultural purposes. Their journey took months in a covered wagon train of nine Conestoga wagons with neighbours and friends seeking a home in Canada. This journey through mountains, crossing the Niagara River and following trails where no roads existed took five months.

GENERATION 3 -- John Biehn, who came to Canada from Pennsylvania in the year 1800, along with his father and brother-in-law, Dilmon Kinzie, purchased a large tract of land along the Grand River in the Doon area. They cleared the land and started farming. These pioneers are buried in the pioneer cemetery known as ?Biehn-Kinzie? near the banks of the Grand River.

GENERATION 4 -- John Biehn, son of John Biehn -- 3, whose oldest sister, Mary, was the first white child born in Waterloo County, left his family settlement at Doon following the opening of the newly historic Huron Road to Haysville where he purchased 200 acres of wooded acres of land in the year 1833 from the Crown, located one mile southwest of Haysville.



Constructed by

Paul Obert

Stone Mason

Drumbo, Ont., August 1995



[Side Two]

THE BEAN FAMILY

This cairn is placed here by the descendants of the John Bean family. Originally spelled Biehn.

John Biehn with his bride Anna Sheirich arrived in Wilmot Township from Doon, Ontario in 1883. He purchased a 200 acre block of wooded forest from the Crown -- Lot 24, Concession 3 -- for 125 English pounds... 1 mile south west of Haysville.

As required by all pioneer families on Crown land, part of the purchase price was to build a log house and clear as many acres of land for agricultural purposes. Here they lived the rest of their lives. They were blessed with eleven children.

Being strong in their religious faith, they early set aside a half acre of their farm for meeting house which was known for nearly a century as the Biehn Mennonite Church, now the Nith Valley Church.

Anna Sheirich Bean died in 1881 -- age 63.

John Bean died in 1898 -- age 86.

They are buried in this cemetery with many of their descendants.

Their children are as follows:

One son, Simon, died in infancy.

The eldest son, Levl [sic], died at 17 years of age as a result of a runaway team accident.

A second daughter, Nancy married Charles Daniells residing in Virginia, USA, died in 1873.

Those surviving at the time of their father?s death were:

Barbara from Michigan.

John from Detroit.

Noah lives on part of the homestead.

George lives on a farm south of Haysville.

Henry lives on a farm west of New Hamburg.

Isaac lives on the homestead.

David lives in Waterloo. Editor and owner of Waterloo Chronicle.

Elizabeth lives at home.

At the time of John Bean?s death, there were 50 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.

The stones for the cairn have come from the original Bean homestead and the farms of their descendants.

Erected in 1995



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John married Anna Scheirich. Anna (daughter of John Scheirich and Barbara Groh) was born on 25 Oct 1818 in Waterloo County, Ontario; died on 31 Mar 1881 in Wilmot Township, near Haysville, Ontario; was buried in Stauffer Cemetery, Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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Notes:

From Ezra Eby Book

John Biehn, " the eldest son of John and Barbara (Fried) Biehn, was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in 1776. In 1799 he was married to Nancy, daughter of Abraham and Mary (Hoch) Bechtel. In 1800 they with his parents and family, and others moved to Canada and settled in Waterloo County where now is the village of Doon. Here they resided until their deaths. Their family consisted of seven children.

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Found at http://www.region.waterloo.on.ca/web/Region.nsf/c56e308f49bfeb7885256abc0071ec9a/ca57fa5f7d869afb85256e1b005729a4!OpenDocument on October 12, 2006

Previous Names: Beck's Hill, Oregon, Tow Town

History of Doon

Before the village of Doon was conceived, there existed in its place an area of forested land near the confluence of the Grand River and Schneider’s Creek. The history of Doon, as with other communities in the Waterloo Township, begins with the story of Richard Beasley and Block Two land holdings. In 1800, John Biehn Sr. from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania bought 3,600 acres of land from Beasley along the west bank of the Grand River, which included the area that would become the village of Doon. Biehn’s relatives from Pennsylvania, including the Bechtels, Rosenbergers, and Kinzies, acquired lots subdivided from his large acreage and took up clearing the land for farming. John Biehn Jr. settled directly in the area of Doon where he eventually established a sawmill. Because other areas of land further out in the township had not yet been made accessible with roads and trails, for several years the general locality of Doon was one of the preferred places to settle. Although both John Biehn Jr. and Frederic Beck ran sawmills in the Doon area by 1830, early settlers were mainly Mennonite farmers looking to continue their agricultural way of life. These farmers were primarily German Mennonites from Pennsylvania.

John married Anna "Nancy" Bechtel in 1799. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Barbara Groh. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]