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

9th GENERATION DESCENDANTS

 Charlie Andrew Bethea 
b. 7-4-1916 m. Gertrude Clara Ethlyn Watkins b. 4-8-1917



Charlie and Gertrude(Watkins) Bethea, 1982

Charlie Andrew Bethea Son of John Franklin Bethea Jr. and  Eugenie Margaret Smith b. 7-4-1916 m. Gertrude Clara Ethlyn Watkins b. 4-8-1917

1) Charles Bethea

2) Virginia Bethea 

3) John Bethea

4) Betty Bethea 

5) Joyce Bethea

6) Debbie Bethea Lodge

"English" John Bethea1 -> "Virginia" John Bethea2 ->  "Sweat Swamp" William Bethea->"Devil John" Bethea 4 -> John Bethea5 -> William Walker Bethea6 -> John Franklin Bethea7 -> 
John Franklin Bethea Jr.8 -> Charlie Andrew Bethea9

1st English John Bethea b. 1684

 

2nd John Bethea (Virginia John) 

 

3rd William Bethea (Sweatswamp) b. 1725

 

4th Devil John Bethea b. 1752 d. 1812 m. Mary Hennegan b. 1756

 

5th John Bethea b. 10-20-1787 m. Hannah Walker

 

6th

William Walker Bethea b. 12-25-1813 

William Walker Bethea b. 12-25-1813 

7th

 

                       

John Franklin Bethea (Dr. Frank) b. 7-2-1837  m. Hannah Jane Bethea

8th



John Franklin Bethea Jr. b. 2-10-1876 m. Eugenie Margaret Smith b. 7-1-1879

9th

Charlie Andrew Bethea b. 7-4-1916 m. Gertrude Clara Ethlyn Watkins b. 4-8-1917



 

 

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

 

 

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