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

8th GENERATION DESCENDANTS

Louisa Jane (Palmer) Hedges8
 b. 10/12/1875, d. 10/12/1960.
  Louisa married Osage Orange Hedges.  
Buried in Abels Cemetery at the Hedges/Palmer family gravesite.

Louisa Jane (Palmer) Hedges 8 daughter of Florence A. (Bethea) Palmer and Zachariah Palmer. b. 10/12/1875, d. 10/12/1960. Louisa married Osage Orange Hedges.  
Buried in Abels Cemetery at the Hedges/Palmer family gravesite.  

They produced six children:

1) Rella Fern Hedges
2) Walter Raleigh Hedges
3) Harry Palmer Hedges
4) Florence Hedges
5) Alleen Hedges
6) Donald L Hedges

"English" John Bethea1 -> "Virginia" John Bethea2 ->  "Sweat Swamp" William Bethea->
 Goodman Bethea4 -> Philip Bethea5 -> John Washington Bethea6 -> Florence A. (Bethea) Palmer7
Louisa Jane ( Palmer) Hedges 8

 

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 Goodman Bethea   b- oct 1759 S.C. m- Mary Council - 2 children
poss more. He served as a Lieutenant in Revolutionary War, he's also on
the 1790 census. Brother to "Devil" John Bethea.


5th  Philip Bethea

6th   John Washington Bethea m. Margaret Jane Stewart

 

7th

Florence A. (Bethea) Palmer b. 3-31-1852 in IA. She married Zachariah Palmer 

 

8th Louisa Jane ( Palmer) Hedges  b. 10/12/1875, d. 10/12/1960. m. Osage Orange Hedges.  
 

 

Significant Places Research Publications A Bethea Story Bethea Family English John Bethea

 

 

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