THE BETHEA FAMILY IN NORTH AMERICA

______________1700 - 2000's________________

8th GENERATION DESCENDANT
 JOSEPH EDGAR BETHEA
 Born Sept. 8, 1887,
Died May 21, 1944
Married to Sarah Ruth Berry

 

 
JOSEPH EDGAR BETHEA, born Sept. 8, 1887, died May 21, 1944 Son of DIXON PIERCE BETHEA and  Nancy Elizabeth (Plair) Married to Sarah Ruth (Berry) Bethea,(b. Jan 12, 1898 d. March 31, 1936) They had five children:

Clara Cleo Bethea,
Earl Walter Bethea
 Vergie Marie Bethea,
William Odell Bethea
Louis Edwin Bethea.

 

 

 

"English" John Bethea1 -> "Virginia" John Bethea2 ->  "Sweat Swamp" William Bethea3  ->"Devil John" Bethea 4 -> William Bethea5 -> Tristram Bethea 6 -> Dixon Pierce Bethea7  ->JOSEPH EDGAR BETHEA8

 

1st John "English John" Bethea  b. about 1684

 
2nd John "Virginia John" Bethea   b. about 1704 d. 1779

 
3rd  William "Sweat Swamp" Bethea  b. 1726,  d. about  1784

 
4th Bethea, John  "Devil John" (b. Oct. 1752) m. Mary Henegan (4th)  

 
5th Bethea, William  (b. 7-23-1775) m. Olivia Pearce , Sarah Hargrove  (5th)
6th Bethea, Tristram (b. Dec. 3 , 1802) m. Nancy McLaurin, Sarah Todd (6th)
7th

Dixon Pierce Bethea.b. 1843 He married Nancy Elizabeth (Plair) 

 
8th JOSEPH EDGAR BETHEA, born Sept. 8, 1887, died May 21, 1944 Married to Sarah Ruth (Berry) Bethea,(b. Jan 12, 1898 d. March 31, 1936)
 

 

 

THE WESTWARD MOVE

Map of Tristram Bethea6's branch movement west starting in Marion Coutry, SC. By  the time of the US Census of 1850, they were living in Meriwether County, GA. Tristram's sons Tristram Pinkney7 and Dixon Pierce Bethea7 continued west to Arkansas. 

 

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