Elihu Bean (1931)

BEAN, COOPER, SMITH, GILPIN, SACKETT

Posted By: Linda Brittain (email)
Date: 10/4/2006 at 19:44:14

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
November 5, 1931 – page 1

Death of Elihu Bean

Word was received by Mrs. Eva Cooper, Saturday announcing the sudden death of her brother-in-law Elihu Bean, of Casper, Wyoming.

Later word stated that Mr. Bean had been ill but a few days with intestinal trouble. It was found necessary to operate and he failed to survive the operation.

Mr. Bean will be well remembered here, having been engaged in the grocery business with his brother, Clyde, for several years and later for many years was in the J. E. Smith grocery store.

The Bean family left Winterset twenty-four years ago for Shoshone, Wyoming, later moving to Casper where they have lived for the last eight years.

Mr. Bean owned a large ranch, a part of which he had originally homesteaded, near Shoshone and was still operating it at the time of his death.

He was a man much admired for his uprightness of life and his integrity of character.

While living in Winterset he was affiliated with the Knights of Pythias lodge and was a member of the Presbyterian church, where he taught a class of young boys for several years. He leaves his wife Grace Gilpin Bean and their only child, Mrs. Robert Sackett, who with her husband and two children, Mary Sue and Robert, reside in Casper.

A younger brother, Malcolm Bean of Berkley, California also survives him.

The Bean family have visited here often in recent years and have many friends who sympathize with them in their loss.