Miriam Bean

  General Notes:

DOB AND PARENTS per Sue Reynolds Jan 2000 via e-mail..also she claims she was born in Warner, NH but Ellen Straw Thompson in her genealogy of 1897 claims Lowell, MA.
Sue also states June 1850 census for Lowell, MA shows Miriam now a widow living with Levi M. 22, John B. 23 (engineer), Augusta 25 and 12 yo female (probably Mary Elizabeth)

1840 Lowell, Middlesex County, MA
Meriam Straw (now widowed) HOH

New-Hampshire Statesman and State Journal, (Concord, NH) Friday, December 31, 1841; Issue 35; col C
Multiple Classified Advertisements
To Probate Judge of Merriamck county, NH
"Miriam Straw of Lowell, MA, widow, guardian of Miriam A. Straw; John B. Straw; Levi H. Straw and Mary E. Straw, minors and children of Stephen Straw late of Lowell, deceased. [seeks to sell in Warner, Merrimack county, NH land and buildings on it at public auction..about 3/4 of an acre..in order to support her children. dated 28 Dec 1841

1850 Lowell, Middlesex County, MA
M. B. Stram 1802
Augusta M. 1825
John B. 1827
Levi H. 1828
M. E. 1838

May be the Miriam Straw housekeeper who opened a saving acct with Lowell Institute for Savings Bank in 1859

census 1860 Lowell Ward 6, Middlesex, MA -All born MA
Miriam B [58] keeping house.
Mary E [23]school teacher
Frank L [9] (s/o Levi)
William R [6]. (s/o Levi)

Lowell Daily Citizen and News, (Lowell, MA) Wednesday, January 28, 1874; Issue 5522; col B
City and Vicinity
"Died at the residence of her son, Mr. John B. Straw in Lewiston, ME, Jan 23 Mrs Miriam B. Straw age 71. The deceased had been a resident of Lowell for nearly 40yrs."

Miriam married Stephen Stanley Straw, son of Ezekiel Straw 2nd and Elizabeth Brown, on 20 Jan 1824 in Poss Lowell, MA. (Stephen Stanley Straw was born on 10 Apr 1796 in Warren, Grafton County, New Hampshire, died on 13 May 1839 in Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts and was buried in School Street Cemetery in Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.)