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

Robert Allen Willis Jr. 8
b 10-13-1917. 
Married 1941 Ray Britt in Glasgow KY. 

Robert Allen Willis Jr. 8 Son of Ida Alma (Bethea) Willis and Robert Allen Willis. Born 10-13-1917. Married 1941 Ray Britt in Glasgow KY. 

1) Robert A Willis lll9, b. 10-18-1942 Spartanburg SC; Married Charlotte A Jordan Marianna 9th

2) Anne Bethea Willis Herring Hudson9, b. 11-04-1944 Camp Blanding FL; Married 1963 Julian Nathan Herring, Columbia SC (remarried 2-06-88 Russell E Hudson) 9th

John "English John" Bethea1 -> "Virginia John" Bethea2 "Buckswamp" John Bethea3-> Philip Bethea4
Col. James Robert Bethea5 -> David McLeod Bethea6 -> Ida Alma Willis7-> Robert Allen Willis Jr8
 

 

1st John "English John" Bethea  b. about 1684
2nd John "Virginia John" Bethea   b. about 1704 d. 1779
3rd "Buckswamp" John Bethea settled Buck Swamp abt. 1756
4th Philip Bethea b. April 25,1781 d. Nov. 22, 1875 m. Rachel Cochrane
5th Col. James Robert Bethea b. Aug. 23, 1809 d. Sep. 24, 1878
 m. Mary Catherine McLeon 
6th Bethea, David McLeod b 4-2-1853, Dillon, SC; Married 1878; d. 5-30-1920 in Albuquerque, NM. Buried Latta SC (6th)
7th Bethea, Ida Alma Willis b. 01-9-1891 in Dillon SC; (Married Robert Allen Willis of Greenwood FL); d. 6-20-1976 Marianna FL (7th)
8th Robert Allen Willis Jr. b 10-13-1917. Married 1941 Ray Britt in Glasgow KY. (8th)

 

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

 

 

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