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Persönliche Daten Mary "May" (Mary "May") BEE 

• Rufname Mary "May".
• Sie ist geboren am 8. März 1790 in Allendale, Northumberland, England.

  Pass auf: Alter bei der Heirat (??-??-1805) war unter 16 Jahre (15).

• Wohnhaft am 2. September 1850: Ceres, McKean, Pennsylvania, United States.

  She was living in the household of Thomas Gilbert, ae 43, Deliann, ae 23, & Statira. ae 1.

• (Spouse) : Robert GILBERT.
• Sie ist verstorben im Jahr 1862 in Warwick, Chester, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten, sie war 71 Jahre alt.
• Ein Kind von Thomas Bee und Marjery Cooke

Familie von Mary "May" (Mary "May") BEE

Sie ist verheiratet mit Robert Gilbert.

Sie haben geheiratet im Jahr 1805, sie war 14 Jahre alt.

Kind(er):

1. Henrietta Caroline Gilbert  1814-1898

Notizen bei Mary "May" (Mary "May") BEE

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Note 1

Title: The History of Ceres and its near vicinity, from its early settlement in 1798 to the present

Author: M.W.Mann ( of Coudersprort) and Maria King (of Ceres)

Publication: Olean, NY: Gillett & Weston, 1896

Note: Aunt Orilla's Book ( Orilla Hall, Sept. 25, 1905)

Note: Excellent

Repository:

Call Number:

Media: Book

Page: 15

Text: " In these years, some of families came that remained. In 1802, John Bell, his wife and his son William, and two sons an a daughter of his wife's by a former marriage, Thomas, John and Mary Bee, all came. They came from Haltwhistle, Northumberlandshire, England, a place mentioned in one of Sir Walter Scott's novels, "Heart of Mid Lothian". They had come to Philadelphia not many years before, and Mr. Bell, who was a superior mechanic, had 'built a hospital' in that city, but the yellow fever, of which there was more or less for a several years, frightened them, and hearing of this break into the wilderness, they followed, leaving one son, John, with a family near the city to whom he was apprenticed to learn the saddlers' trade. After he attained his majority, he, too, came to Ceres, where he spent his long and useful life, as did also his brother William an his step-brothers and sister, and where many of their descendants still live."

Note 2

"History of Ceres..." page 37-

"Mary (Bee) Bell, wife of John Bell, Sr., was none of the notable characters in the early history , and most of the elderly people about the country still remember her, as she lived until 1850. She was a strong, resolute woman and frequently used to take a pail of butter and go to Olean and exchange it for its value in sugar and tea and return the same day, walking both ways. She did this the latter part of the thirties, but became nearly blind and had to stay pretty closely at home for a number of years before her death. She was a noted for her cordial hospitality. She was from Northumberlandshire, and used its peculiar dialect, and was always ready with a "gude coop of tay" for all who came. She was a model of neatness, and her house, though not large, was nicer than any one's else in the early days. It was nicely furnished, because her husband made the furniture, and he was a good workman. This furniture is now highly prized by those who have come into its possession. The house was built of hewed logs and had a framed addition. With Mary Bell is associated the name of Kitty Hanson, a child whom she had taken from an asylum in Phila. The child had been taken by the city authorities from an old woman who was begging with her, but to whom it was evident she did not belong. She could tell something about her home, and it was believed that both of her parents had died of yellow fever, and that she had been stolen by this bagrant woman so that she could the better appeal to the sympathies of people while begging. This girl, after may years, became the wife of William Smith. Through her long life there was always an intense desire to know her own early history, and if she had any relatives. After her death, Mrs. Mann, of Coudersport, wrote a little history of her, which was highly prized by her children, and which I would like to include in this volume, but Mrs. Mann thinks it hardly best. Mrs. Smith was a faithful wife and mother and a true woman."-m.k.

Note 3

"History of Ceres..." page 40-

"Mary Bee, who married Robert Gilbert in 1804 or 1805, went with her mother, Mary Bell, to Philadelphia, where Gilbert's family resided, and was married in Friends' meeting. They live for a while in the city but returned to Ceres in 1806."

Note 4

"History of Ceres.." page 41-

"Mary Bee, who married Robert Gilbert, was early left alone with her four children, Mr. GIlbert having left home for a long journey and it was supposed died without any way of communication the circumstances of his death to his family. Mrs. Gilbert managed judiciously, bought land near her mother's and was a successful in making a home and living comfortable as were her brothers. She had one son and three daughters. The son lived until 1888, and the youngest daughter, now Mrs. Henrietta Benson, still living (Pub. 1896). in the late autumn of 1826, a little girl who lived with a neighboring family came in one morning on a errand. IT was cold and she was given a seat near the fire. When it was time for her to go, Mrs. Gilbert found her to be in a severe chill, and as she thought unable to go out again in the cold. She grew rapidly worse, was put in bed and carefully nursed. Physicians were scarce and far off, and people often had to go without them, even when sorely needed, but in this case one was summoned form Olean and he pronounced it a case of Typhus or Typhoid fever. Thomas Gilbert and Thomas Bee were stricken with it, but after many weeks the first three recovered, but two of their faithful nurses, Harriet and Marrianne Gilbert, were taken, for they gave their young lives as the result of their benevolent work. Mrs. Gilbert was a very loving mother, but she was not one who put her hand to the plough an looked back, for years afterward she said to a friend, " I have never regretted taking in the poor, sick, little girl. Mrs. Gilbert was a Christian. Catherine Hanson was still living in her mother's family ( Mary Bell's) at the time of her (Mary Gilbert's) conversion, an speaking of it only a short time before her death, said, " That was a real conversion and her life was ever after beautiful from its conformity to the Gospel." Her daughters had imbibed their mother's spirit and were also Christians, and were ready for death's summons. Mrs. Gilbert was quite well educated, a great reader, and an intelligent woman. There were a number of others who had the fever, so that it was a sad time."

Note 5

"History of Ceres..." page 141-

" Mrs. Geo. Lewis ( Aunt Orilla'a Aunt), of Vineland, gives some interesting reminiscences of the younger days of her grandmother Mary Gilbert. All the new-comers found a home at Francis King's until they could build homes of their own. Mary Bee, as her name was when she came to the country, must have been a young woman, as she married Robert Gilbert, of Philadelphia, only about two years afterward. John Bell, Sr. and family must have remained at F. King's the first winter after they came. In the spring, maple trees were tapped and sugar making begun. She went out one day toward evening to gather the sap. the sugar bush was up King's near the Hornblower place. After she had been to work some time, she heard wolves howling on the hills east of her, but she kept on with her work an shortly she heard wolves answering them on the hills west, but she still kept on with her work. They evidently were approaching the vicinity where she was, but she would not leave until the sap was gathered, but she made very quick time home then. At another time she met a panther, or came near to it, crouched in the road. She kept her eye on it and walked backward until she came to her brother nearly a quarter of a mile away. Then the panther turned and trotted away into the swamp. As it was daytime and she could beep her eye on him, there was probably little danger that it would spring upon her unless she turned and ran, and she was so fearless that she would hardly have done that. Mrs. Gilbert remembered wolves coming up and looking into the windows after dark. This would not be surprising when we remember that sheep could only be kept by putting them into covered pens at night."

Note 1

Title: The History of Ceres and its near vicinity, from its early settlement in 1798 to the present

Author: M.W.Mann ( of Coudersprort) and Maria King (of Ceres)

Publication: Olean, NY: Gillett & Weston, 1896

Note: Aunt Orilla's Book ( Orilla Hall, Sept. 25, 1905)

Note: Excellent

Repository:

Call Number:

Media: Book

Page: 15

Text: " In these years, some of families came that remained. In 1802, John Bell, his wife and his son William, and two sons an a daughter of his wife's by a former marriage, Thomas, John and Mary Bee, all came. They came from Haltwhistle, Northumberlandshire, England, a place mentioned in one of Sir Walter Scott's novels, "Heart of Mid Lothian". They had come to Philadelphia not many years before, and Mr. Bell, who was a superior mechanic, had 'built a hospital' in that city, but the yellow fever, of which there was more or less for a several years, frightened them, and hearing of this break into the wilderness, they followed, leaving one son, John, with a family near the city to whom he was apprenticed to learn the saddlers' trade. After he attained his majority, he, too, came to Ceres, where he spent his long and useful life, as did also his brother William an his step-brothers and sister, and where many of their descendants still live."

Note 2

"History of Ceres..." page 37-

"Mary (Bee) Bell, wife of John Bell, Sr., was none of the notable characters in the early history , and most of the elderly people about the country still remember her, as she lived until 1850. She was a strong, resolute woman and frequently used to take a pail of butter and go to Olean and exchange it for its value in sugar and tea and return the same day, walking both ways. She did this the latter part of the thirties, but became nearly blind and had to stay pretty closely at home for a number of years before her death. She was a noted for her cordial hospitality. She was from Northumberlandshire, and used its peculiar dialect, and was always ready with a "gude coop of tay" for all who came. She was a model of neatness, and her house, though not large, was nicer than any one's else in the early days. It was nicely furnished, because her husband made the furniture, and he was a good workman. This furniture is now highly prized by those who have come into its possession. The house was built of hewed logs and had a framed addition. With Mary Bell is associated the name of Kitty Hanson, a child whom she had taken from an asylum in Phila. The child had been taken by the city authorities from an old woman who was begging with her, but to whom it was evident she did not belong. She could tell something about her home, and it was believed that both of her parents had died of yellow fever, and that she had been stolen by this bagrant woman so that she could the better appeal to the sympathies of people while begging. This girl, after may years, became the wife of William Smith. Through her long life there was always an intense desire to know her own early history, and if she had any relatives. After her death, Mrs. Mann, of Coudersport, wrote a little history of her, which was highly prized by her children, and which I would like to include in this volume, but Mrs. Mann thinks it hardly best. Mrs. Smith was a faithful wife and mother and a true woman."-m.k.

Note 3

"History of Ceres..." page 40-

"Mary Bee, who married Robert Gilbert in 1804 or 1805, went with her mother, Mary Bell, to Philadelphia, where Gilbert's family resided, and was married in Friends' meeting. They live for a while in the city but returned to Ceres in 1806."

Note 4

"History of Ceres.." page 41-

"Mary Bee, who married Robert Gilbert, was early left alone with her four children, Mr. GIlbert having left home for a long journey and it was supposed died without any way of communication the circumstances of his death to his family. Mrs. Gilbert managed judiciously, bought land near her mother's and was a successful in making a home and living comfortable as were her brothers. She had one son and three daughters. The son lived until 1888, and the youngest daughter, now Mrs. Henrietta Benson, still living (Pub. 1896). in the late autumn of 1826, a little girl who lived with a neighboring family came in one morning on a errand. IT was cold and she was given a seat near the fire. When it was time for her to go, Mrs. Gilbert found her to be in a severe chill, and as she thought unable to go out again in the cold. She grew rapidly worse, was put in bed and carefully nursed. Physicians were scarce and far off, and people often had to go without them, even when sorely needed, but in this case one was summoned form Olean and he pronounced it a case of Typhus or Typhoid fever. Thomas Gilbert and Thomas Bee were stricken with it, but after many weeks the first three recovered, but two of their faithful nurses, Harriet and Marrianne Gilbert, were taken, for they gave their young lives as the result of their benevolent work. Mrs. Gilbert was a very loving mother, but she was not one who put her hand to the plough an looked back, for years afterward she said to a friend, " I have never regretted taking in the poor, sick, little girl. Mrs. Gilbert was a Christian. Catherine Hanson was still living in her mother's family ( Mary Bell's) at the time of her (Mary Gilbert's) conversion, an speaking of it only a short time before her death, said, " That was a real conversion and her life was ever after beautiful from its conformity to the Gospel." Her daughters had imbibed their mother's spirit and were also Christians, and were ready for death's summons. Mrs. Gilbert was quite well educated, a great reader, and an intelligent woman. There were a number of others who had the fever, so that it was a sad time."

Note 5

"History of Ceres..." page 141-

" Mrs. Geo. Lewis ( Aunt Orilla'a Aunt), of Vineland, gives some interesting reminiscences of the younger days of her grandmother Mary Gilbert. All the new-comers found a home at Francis King's until they could build homes of their own. Mary Bee, as her name was when she came to the country, must have been a young woman, as she married Robert Gilbert, of Philadelphia, only about two years afterward. John Bell, Sr. and family must have remained at F. King's the first winter after they came. In the spring, maple trees were tapped and sugar making begun. She went out one day toward evening to gather the sap. the sugar bush was up King's near the Hornblower place. After she had been to work some time, she heard wolves howling on the hills east of her, but she kept on with her work an shortly she heard wolves answering them on the hills west, but she still kept on with her work. They evidently were approaching the vicinity where she was, but she would not leave until the sap was gathered, but she made very quick time home then. At another time she met a panther, or came near to it, crouched in the road. She kept her eye on it and walked backward until she came to her brother nearly a quarter of a mile away. Then the panther turned and trotted away into the swamp. As it was daytime and she could beep her eye on him, there was probably little danger that it would spring upon her unless she turned and ran, and she was so fearless that she would hardly have done that. Mrs. Gilbert remembered wolves coming up and looking into the windows after dark. This would not be surprising when we remember that sheep could only be kept by putting them into covered pens at night."

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