Fanny (Hay) Bean (1866 - 1950)

Born 23 Aug 1866 in Batavia, Genesee, New York, United States

Ancestors

Died 15 Apr 1950 at age 83 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States

Biography

Fanny was born in 1866. She was the daughter of Michael Hay and Lurania Waite. She passed away in 1950.

• Fact: Residence (1870) New York, United States
• Fact: Residence (1875) Batavia, Genesee, New York, United States
• Fact: Residence (1880) Batavia, Genesee, New York, United States
• Fact: Residence (1900) Lancaster Township Lancaster village, Erie, New York, United States
• Fact: Residence (1910) Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States
• Fact: Occupation At School
• Fact: http://familysearch.org/v1/LifeSketch Fannie was a very strong person and married a weak person in Clarence. She and Clarence had a store called Bean Department Store in Batavia. For a long time, the name of the store was visible on the side of the building. She was cold. She divorced her first husband, Ellsworth Mitchell "Chester" Ford, and married Clarence Bean, but Clarence had not adopted Ellis, although he was reared by him and thought he was his father. Lorraine was favored by Fannie, giving her enough money to complete college, while Ellis had to quit for financial reasons.

When her son Ellis took his bride, Zelie, to meet her, Fannie disapproved of the marriage. She even went as far as to buy a ticket to send Zelie back to Belgium From that point on, relations were not warm between Fannie and Zelie, and they saw each other rarely. The family has photographs of when they met. Her brother, Ellis Hay, and his wife, Florence, were warm

In the early 1930s, her son, Ellis, needed to get a birth certificate. He went to his birth city, Batavia, NY, and couldn't find his records. His sister, Lorraine, finally told him that the man who had reared him was not his biological father; rather, his father was "Chester" Ford. Clarence Bean had never adopted him, and they had never told Ellis about it.

Clarence was a nice, weak man, Fannie was a much stronger person and ran the household.

Both Fannie and Clarence were from Batavia, NY. When the couple lived in Chicago, Clarence may have been a butcher.

Fannie smoked cigarettes, During World War II, she would cut her cigarettes in half. While she lived with Ellis and Zelie in Detroit, Ellis was angry with her for smoking. When he found a burn spot in her bed from smoking in bed, enough was enough. He called his sister, Lorraine, in Chicago, and sent his mother to her the next day. Lorrain smoked, too. they lived at 900 North Michigan in downtown Chicago. Jacques Restaurant was downstairs. The building is now torn down, and in its place is the Four Seasons Hotel and Bloomingdales Mall.

Sources

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 20 June 2023, 23:08), entry for Fannie Hay (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:KLH1-2RQ ); contributed by various users.