tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7470217109659177851.post6486614601803955806..comments2024-03-28T07:48:11.698-07:00Comments on Heirlooms Reunited: 1830s/1840s Autograph Album of Polly Patch (Wight) Bean of Gilead, Maine, and Bethel, MainePam Beveridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06272409581983333836noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7470217109659177851.post-69798665646048660962021-04-21T11:32:32.070-07:002021-04-21T11:32:32.070-07:00Do you still have this autograph book? Polly Patch...Do you still have this autograph book? Polly Patch Wight Bean was my first cousin, four times removed. Her daughter Susan married Frederick Perkins of Newcastle, Maine, and their daughter was Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor from 1933-45 and the driving force behind such social programs as unemployment insurance, social security, and more. I work at the Bethel (Maine) Historical Society and the names in this book are all local family names.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08758331896030960227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7470217109659177851.post-42880352498036753372016-03-05T12:19:11.842-08:002016-03-05T12:19:11.842-08:00So happy that you landed on this blog! You can co...So happy that you landed on this blog! You can contact me by email - which is under Inquiries near top right. Pam Beveridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06272409581983333836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7470217109659177851.post-59454602291157134632016-03-04T20:44:23.397-08:002016-03-04T20:44:23.397-08:00This my mother's father's Wight Ancestors,...This my mother's father's Wight Ancestors, She would love to see this. She is 72 this month. I have pictures of gravestones from the Chapman Cemetery in Gilead, of most of these people. I am very interested in this.msjudith41https://www.blogger.com/profile/09284948014104069897noreply@blogger.com