Frances J. "Nettie" Mann (b. Bean) (1852-1937) was born in Illinois and died in Eagle Rock, California. She was a dressmaker. In 1868 she married Albion F. Pearson, a hairdresser, in Marion, Missouri. They divorced sometime prior to 1880. In 1882 she married James C. Mann, a banker and judge who later became a clerk and bookkeeper, in Denver, Colorado. After his death in 1897 she went to live near her daughter Lillian P. Anthony (b. Pearson) in Bremerton and then Bellevue, Washington. Around 1922 she moved into the household of her daughter Nettie Alice Simmons (b. Pearson) in Eagle Rock. Mann studied Christian Science in Denver with Minnie B. Hall De Soto, one of Mary Baker Eddy's students. In 1887 Mann and her husband donated funds to Eddy along with several other Denver-based Christian Scientists. She joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 11, 1901, and was a practitioner listed in The Christian Science Journal from 1914 to 1936.

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