Bethea Family Genealogy Website This is a history of the descendents of an Englishman who crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Great Britain to Virginia about 1700. The Bethea family expanded and grew over the last three hundred years. The Bethea Family in North America 1700 - 2000
6th Generation in North American Jesse Bethea 6 b. 05-22-1807 d. 01-04-1876 m. Christian Bethune

Jesse Bethea ⁶ Son of William Bethea5 and Second wife Olivia Pearce. Born 05-22-1807 in Little Rock, Marion District (Dillon), SC and died 01-04-1876. He married Christian Bethune (born 1804 and died 7-7-1886). Their children are as follows:

1) Caroline Pearce Bethea⁷, b. 12-8-1825, m. Calvin Cade Bethea.
2) Catherine Bethea⁷, b. m. Patric James Fenegan,
3) Chesley Bethea⁷, b. ? d. ? never married
4) Farquehard Bethea⁷ b.? d. 1929 never married.
5) Holden Wade Bethea⁷ b. 10-13-1843, d. 7-26-1906
6) John Colin Bethea7⁷, b. 05-31-1831, Marion District, SC; d. 10-15-1902, near Bingham, SC.
7) Mary Jane Bethea⁷, b. 1840, m. Edward C. Shrewsbury.
8) Phillip Bethea^{7 ,} b. 3-13-1834 d. 12-18-1869

3 children (Farquehard, Holden, and Chesley) were found in Mary Belle Manning Bethea's Ancestral Key to the Pee Dee. Thanks to Doris Bethea Foster⁹ who listed the grandsons of Farquehard Bethune (Christian's father)