Mary Elizabeth Williams (1926 - 2010)

Born 10 Aug 1926 in Northumberland, Virginia, United States

Wife of Thomas Straughan Beane — married 14 Dec 1947 (to 1973) in Northumberland, Virginia, United States

Died 15 Apr 2010 at age 83 in Miskimon, Northumberland, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Mary Elizabeth Williams lived in Virginia.

The Life Summary of Mary Elizabeth (Williams) Beane:

When Mary Elizabeth Williams was born on 10 August 1926, in Northumberland, Virginia, United States, her parents were Charles Harrison Williams and Daisy C. Wood.^[1]

She married Thomas Straughan Beane Sr on 14 February 1947.^[2]

In 1930, Mary lived in Fairfield District, Northumberland, Virginia, United States with her parents and five (5) siblings.^[3]

In 1940, Mary still lived with her parents with a brother in Fairfield District, Northumberland, Virginia, United States.^[4]

She married Thomas Straughan Beane on 14 Dec 1947 in Northumberland, Virginia, United States.^[5]

She died on 15 April 2010, in Miskimon, Northumberland, Virginia, United States, at the age of 83,^[6] and was buried in Beane Family Cemetery, Miskimon, Northumberland, Virginia, United States.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G369-2C2
2. ↑ Needs Citation
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CFM8-1W2 : accessed 15 December 2022), Mary E Williams in household of Charles H Williams, Fairfield Magisterial District, Northumberland, Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 2, sheet 17A, line 47, family 384, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2452; FHL microfilm 2,342,186.
4. ↑ https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRBL-VSP
5. ↑ "Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK9J-LZB8 : 20 February 2021), Thomas Straughan Beane and Mary Elizabeth Williams, 14 Dec 1947; from "Virginia, Marriage Records, 1700-1850," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2012); citing , Northumberland, Virginia, United States, certificate 39700, Virginia Department of Health, Richmond.
6. ↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQSD-43Y : 12 January 2021), Mary W Beane, 15 Apr 2010; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
7. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51421412/mary-elizabeth-beane

Mary Elizabeth's Obituary

Mary Elizabeth Williams Beane died on April 15th, 2010. Mary Beane was born August 10, 1926 to Charles H. and Daisy Wood Williams in Fleeton, Virginia, the youngest of six children. She grew up on this peninsula on the Chesapeake Bay, a community of watermen who depended on the bay for their livelihood and the children depended on for an endless source of fun, curiosity and food during those Depression days. She graduated from Reedville High School in 1943 and moved to wartime Baltimore to be with her siblings. She graduated Baltimore Business College in 1944 and was employed at the Navy Office, under the leadership of Richard M. Nixon. After her fiancŽ returned from war in the Pacific Theater, she married Straughan Beane on December 14th, 1947 and resided over a country store in the Northern Neck of Virginia in a rural farming community called Miskimon. Mary and Straughan bore two children, ran the general store and attended Hopewell Methodist Church. As a young mother she was active in her children's education, often times including the neighbor's children in swimming lessons, ice skating on the local ponds, sleigh riding, making Halloween costumes, birthday parties, and boating on the Great Wicomico. With her husband, they were active in the Acca Shrine, Rappatomac Shrine Club, Hopewell Church and the Richmond Food Dealer's Association. When her husband died, Mary Beane continued operation of the store and became Post Mistress of the Miskimon Post Office. The fourth class Post Office was closed in 1976 and store keeping had changed. Mary Beane returned to the Chesapeake Bay, moving to Sandy Point near Wicomico Church, Virginia to start again. Her new home was across Ingram Bay near the mouth of the Great Wicomico and Cockrell's Creek from her childhood home of Fleeton. The great Chesapeake lay before her. She took up a life of gardening, "socializing on the Point", Bridge Club, Square Dancing, and painting. She took Second Place in a Rappahannock Art League Exhibition. The water was her home and she spent many hours enjoying the company of friends sitting on her deck by the bay. When her son returned to the Northern Neck to begin his career in pharmacy, she provided staunch support as bookkeeper and participated in his business ventures by operating Grumpy's Pizza in Lively, Virginia. Mary Beane was a member of St. Mary's Episcopal, Kenwood Presbyterian, Hopewell Methodist and Wicomico Episcopal. Mary Beane was a breast cancer survivor, and an inspiration to all who knew her for her love of life, belief in God and love of her country. Mary Beane is preceded in death by her parents and her siblings, Thelma, Orvetta, Elvira, and Charles. She is survived by her two children, a son, Thomas Straughan Beane, Jr, and, daughter, Mary Bonita Beane and her sister, Cornelia W. Brown. Graveside services were held 2:00 p. m. Sunday, April 18 at the Beane Cemetery at Miskimon with The Rev. David May officiating. Pallbearers were George H. Beane, Charles H. Williams, III, N. R. "Rocky" Tingle, Jr., Irving L. Talley, H. Oswald Haynie, Weston Conley, Tucker Beane, Earl Ray Thomas, Meade Hinton, Jr., and Bill Jannell. Memorial contributions may be made to Beane's Cemetery, 6302 Courthouse Road, Heathsville, Virginia 22473.