10/11/2026
Aug. 6, 1915, The Lake Charles Weekly American Press: “Farmer Dreaming Saw Neighbor Die”
FARMER DREAMING�SAW NEIGHBOR DIE
Special to American-Press.
DeRidder, La., July 29.—Premonition of death coincident with the materializing of the dream of a neighbor, are circumstances attending the sudden demise Tuesday night of Mrs. Marion Bean of the Duett’s Eddy settlement. Awakened from a deep sleep during which he was witnessing all the details of the dying of his neighbor, J. H. Hollingsworth was informed that Mrs. Bean was dead. His somnambulent visions had become a reality.
That Mrs. Bean had a premonition of the grim call of death, was suggested by the words she uttered a short while before she died and while she was attending church services where she first was stricken. Asked if she cared to be taken home, her answer was, as she pointed up:
“I’m on my way home now, to my home up there. Glory be to God.”
The physician who attended Mrs. Bean, but who arrived too late to save her, pronounced paralysis as the cause of her death.
Mrs. Bean, accompanied by her husband and family, went to church that night apparently as well as ever. Attention was first attracted to Mrs. Bean when she rose from her seat during the services and called for her sons. Several women went to her and administered first relief under the impression that she had become faint from the heat. She continued to call for her sons.
[Partially obscured: Rev. Jake Bowden], who was conducting the meeting, tried to pacify the excitement by remarking that Mrs. Bean would be all right in a few minutes.
“It’s the work of God,” he said.�“It’s nothing serious.”
Mr. Bean and his sons, however, who were present, carried the woman out of doors and from there on to their home. She died a short while afterward.
Mrs. Bean was born 59 years ago [partially obscured: in east Texas and lived practically all her life there until she came to Louisiana about ten years ago]. She is survived by several brothers and sisters and by a husband and six children. They are: Mrs. Bert Williams and Mrs. Jake [Crafton?], and Alec, Will, Clark and Carrie Bean.
The funeral was held Wednesday, burial being at the graveyard at Sutter’s Bluff.
