Bean, Robert L. d. 1898

BEAN

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Date: 2/22/2005 at 19:40:18

Old Soldier Dies of Cancer

There are several old soldiers in Japer County, whose hearts will be grieved to learn of the sad death of Robert L. Bean, which occurred at the Iowa Soldiers Home in Marshalltown, about two weeks ago. Comrade Bean served for three years in the war of the rebellion as a soldier in Company C, Twenty-second Iowa Infantry, and was one of the best soldiers that Jasper County ever sent to the front. At the great battle of Cedar Creek, in 1864, a small piece of a gun cap struck him on the left cheek near the nose. For many years a small scale seemed to form on the spot but it never gave him any trouble until a couple of years ago when it seemed to begin to grow, and finally developed into a cancer, which spread over his entire cheek sapping his strength and life blood until death came to release him from his intense suffering. For most of the time since his return from the war he had resided on a small farm a few miles east of Colfax. He was about sixty-six years of age, and leaves an aged companion to mourn his loss. No man was ever a truer friend or better neighbor than Bob Bean. ~ The Newton Record Thursday, Newton, IA, September 29, 1898