Mary Elizabeth (Eesley) Bean
also known as Mary Eesley, maiden
b. 1913-08-25, Shelby, Michigan
Mary Elizabeth Eesley was born August 25, 1913 in Shelby, Michigan — the seventh of Charles Leonard and Lillie Dale Chenoweth Eesley’s ten children, and the second of their three daughters. She married William Thomas Bean (born November 13, 1909). They had one daughter, Margaret Louise Bean (b. December 11, 1941), who married Jay Albert Kirkpatrick.
In March 1985, working in her early seventies from her home in Narberth, Pennsylvania, she wrote the book that made this site possible: the Eesley Family History — a chronological listing of her father Charles Leonard Eesley’s family, traced back through her grandfather Albert, and forward through every descendant she could trace. Her brother Will drew the cover.
It is the relationship backbone of this archive’s paternal line and the founding document of the line’s record-keeping habit. She is not just a source; she is the most important figure in the previous generation of family record-keepers.
Source: Mary Eesley Bean, Eesley Family History, p. 8; her own preface, March 1985.
Appears in
- Eesley Family History (1985) — register
Pictured in
- Eesley Family Group Portrait, c. late 1940s – 1960s — Photograph