Listed with the Goodwin family in 1910.
Sylvia was raised by the Pickerings, a deaf-mute family in NE.
She was married to Raymond Theodore Beans on 21 Aug 1920 in Lexington, NE.
In 1930 they were living in Coyote Pct, Dawson Co, NE with daughter Geraldine B. (1927, NE) and Sylvia's half brother Lawrence S. Hitchcock.
[Obituary] The Idaho Statesman - Sunday, 12 April 1981, pg 2B
Sylvia I. Beans
MERIDIAN — Private graveside services for Sylvia I. Beans, 79. of 233 W Pine St., Meridian, who died Wednesday in a Boise hospital, will be conducted at 10 30 a.m. Tuesday in Meridian Cemetery under the direction of Jerread's Chapel of the Chimes. Memorial services will follow at 2 p.m. in Meridian Church of Christ by the Rev. Steve Moore.
She was born Aug. 24, 1901, in Lexington, Neb. She was adopted by John and Lula Pickering at the age of 5. She attended schools in Lexington and graduated from Grand Island (Neb.) Business College. She married Ray Beans on Aug. 21, 1921, in Lexington. They farmed in Nebraska until 1947, when they moved to Boise. They ministered in churches in Colorado, California and Idaho. They were with Meridian Church of Christ from 1967 until retiring in 1976.
Survivors include her husband of Meridian; a son, Lyle R. of Galveston, Texas; three daughters, Mrs. Don (Betty) Adamson and Mrs. Allen (Peggy) Stewart, both of Meridian, and Gayle Rumple of Baltimore; a sister, Pearl Hitchcock of Lincoln, Neb.; 12 grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
Friends may call at the chapel Monday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Memorials may be made to Meridian Church of Christ Building Fund.