• General Notes

  Capt. Robert Bean was also at Kings Mountain and may have fired the shot that killed British commander Patrick Ferguson. Bean’s grave can be found in Marion County at Bean-Roulston Graveyard.
  
  Those who joined the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Pennsylvania
  Militia to fight in the war of 1812 were as follows: Captain Robert
  Bean, Captain Robert Mann, Lieutenant George Davis, and Benjamin
  Boyer, James W. Brown, Andrew Campbell, William Emery, William
  Ewing, Philip Bonner, John Long, James McCurdy, Peter Miller, James
  Nelson, Peter Roberts, William Tanner, Cornelius Tunson, James Waugh
  and John Williamson.
  
  At age 15 he served in the Revolutionary War under Col. Elijah
  Clark of the GA line. He served as a Watauga rifleman and volunteer
  service at the Battle of King’s Mountain. He signed the petition requesting
  the formation of Rutherford Co. 10 Aug 1803. He was appointed overseer
  of a road from John Price’s to Cripple Creek, Oct 8, 1805 [RCM - A, p.
  105]. CHILDREN: Lemuel Bean (b. Feb 5, 1782, m. Sally Bean); Rhoda
  Bean (b. Nov 2, 1783, m. John Owens); Obediah Bean, (b. Dec 15, 1785,
  m. Barbara Heifner); John or Jack Bean (b. Jan 1, 1788, m. Sarah ? );
  Elizabeth Bean (b. Dec 10, 1789, m. John Patton); William Bean (Dec 12,
  1791, m. ?Miss Williams); Robert Bean, Jr. (July 10, 1794, m. Sarah
  Wynne); Sarah Bean (b. Nov 1798, m. Benjamin Selman); Jesse Bean (b.
  Nov 29, 1800, m. (1) Naomi Pyburn; m. (2) Nancy Wynn); Martha Bean (b.
  July 6, 1803, m. Levi Womack). [see Bean family genealogy

Details of Captain Robert's family with Martha (Womack) Beene