Beene Family Photo (ca. 1913)
Contributed: May 2007
Submitted by John A. Griggs
Beene Family Photo
This is a picture of my great-grandfather's, Lonnie Hopkins Bean (Beene) (son of Wiley Hopkins Bean) family,
that, oral history says, was made on his 50th birthday in February, 1913,in Itawamba County near Mantachie.
Front. L to R: Marvin & Cleo Bennett Beene & son Burl, Lonnie & Georgia Boren Beene, Vernon Archie and Ada Strange
Beene & daughter Carrie Eulane, (my Mother) Clovis & Erma Beene Jones and son John Beene, Back, L to R: Pansy Beene (dau
of Vernon & Ada), Effie Lou Beene, John Allen Beene, Marie Beene (later married Clarence DeVaughn), Arnold and Velma Beene
Jenkins, Odie Randolph and Avo Cummings Beene and daughter, Kate Allen, Vera Beene (later married to William Wren), Minnie Irene
Beene (later married Frank Roberts). All, except Lonnie were born in Itawamba County. Lonnie was born in Coosa, Alabama, the son
of Wiley Hopkins Bean and Julia Gantt.
My mother, Carrie Eulane Beene, went to school in Mantachie and married David Bryant Griggs in Itawamba County in 1927. He was
born in Philcampbell, Alabama. Vernon and all of his family moved to Arkansas in 1929. Later, Marvin, John Allen and Odie also moved to Arkansas.
My older sister, Betty Joe Griggs Snell, was born in Itawamba Co. in 1928 and the rest of us were born in St. Francis Co, AR,
near Hughes. All of the Bean (Beene) daughters, except Effie Lou, married and raised their families in Itawamba County. Many of
their offspring still live in the area.