From "The Beans of Trout Creek" by Martha Everson Jones:
Robison Bean, eldest son of John and Jane Bean was tall, hardy, had red hair and blue eyes. Most all of the early Bean settlers had fair complexions, red hair and blue eyes. The Bean men seemed to have inherited tendencies to be marksmen with firearms and to have deep set eyes and heavy eyebrows. Robison's name is found to be spelled four different ways. These include Robinson, Robison, Robson and sometimes Robert. He appeared on the 1860 census of Jasper County, Texas as a farmer. He was then thirty seven years old. His wife was Jerusha Reese, born in Georgia who was thirty eight years old. They had nine children, four boys and five girls. In 1864 Robison bought a 500 acre tract of land in Newton County from Emily Conn for $310.00. At the time he was forty one years old and had been living in Jasper County probably near Magnolia Springs. His youngest child, Elmira, was four years old. His eldest son, Jordan, was seventeen years old. Robison served in Company I of the 24th Regiment Texas Calvary in 1865. It has been told that he served as a medic although he did not have a license to practice medicine. In 1870 Robison was still listed on the Jasper County, Texas census as a farmer. However in 1880 he is listed on the Orange County, Texas census as a blacksmith. In the late 1870's the logging industry was booming on the Sabine River. Orange, Texas was the destination of most of the logs that were harvested on either side of the river for more than a hundred miles upstream. Wagons and carts that moved many of the logs to the water's edge were both made and repaired locally. Other logging equipment was normally supplied and repaired locally. With the end of slavery, cotton farming became a less remunerative occupation. Blacksmithing, perhaps became a more attractive means of earning a livelihood. Robison Bean moved to the logging country and became a blacksmith. The exact location of Robison and Jerusha's graves cannot be verified because burial records were not kept in these counties until after the 1900's. However their son William is buried in Trout Creek Cemetery at the west end near a large Cedar tree. Beside his grave are two unmarked graves thought to be those of Robison and Jerusha Bean. Long time residents of the Trout Creek community assured the writer these are the graves which have always been designated as such. According to the 12th census of the United States, the 1900 Census of Newton County, Texas: Robison Bean, born Oct. 14, 1822, married in 1841 and died on June 18, 1904 in Orange County, Texas of senility. Jerusha Wilmoth (called Rusha) was born in May 1822. Her father was born in Georgia and her mother was born in Georgia. Both Robison and Jerusha could read, write and speak English.From "Beans, Jetts, and Allied Families" by Martha Jones (8/9/92):
Obituary of Robertson Bean The Orange Leader Citizen - Record Consolidated Orange, Texas June 24, 1904 p. 8: "Died. Mr. Robertson Bean an old Confederate veteran and Texas pioneer and one of the most respected citizens in this section died at his home eight miles north of town on the 20th at the ripe old age of 82 years. Mr. Bean while not a native Texan was one of its early pioneers, he having settled in Jasper County in 1849, where he built the first grist and saw mill in that section. He moved to Orange County in 1871 where he has since resided. He was the father of ten children, five of whom are living to mourn his loss. Among them being our fellow townsman Mr. Adolph Bean. The Leader extends its sincere condolence to the bereaved family and friends."