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 in North American

MARY CAROLINE MEDLIN GRAY(9) 
b 12-11-1917, d 3-13-2000  
Married Fred Little Gray

"English" John Bethea1 -> "Virginia" John Bethea2 ->  William Bethea-> "Devil" John Bethea4 ->
Cade Bethea5 -> John Washington Bethea6 ->
Mary Ellen Bethea Medlin7 ->
MARY ELLEN BETHEA MEDLIN8 -> MARY CAROLINE MEDLIN GRAY9

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Mary Caroline Medlin Gray, and Fred Little Gray in 1964 Mary Caroline Medlin Gray (daughter of Carlton Bethea Medlin and Mary Claudine Webster Medlin) and Fred Little Gray. Taken 1985 with their first great grandaughter

MARY CAROLINE MEDLIN GRAY(9)  b 12-11-1917, d 3-13-2000 Daughter of CARLTON BETHEA MEDLIN and  Mary Claudine Webster. Married Fred Little Gray, (son of William Alphonso Gray and Jessie Virginia Garland) b 4-13-1913, d 5-9-1994

1) GRAYFRED BETHEA GRAY(10) b 9-17-1938 (Grayfred married Patricia Jane Hensley, b 7-13-1941
2) WILLIAM ALBERT GRAY(10) b 9-15-1940 (William (Billy) married Sylvia Elaine Roberts, b 2-23-1947
3) RALPH MEDLIN GRAY(10) b 2-16-1942, Ralph married Anne Catherine Lowkis
4) FREIDA ARLENE GRAY(10) b 8-20-1944
5) BROOKS GRAY(10) b 4-5-1947, Brooks married Constance (Connie) Gail Zamudio

1st John "English John" Bethea  

 

2nd John "Virginia John" Bethea

 

3rd  William "Sweat Swamp" Bethea .

 

4th "Devil" John Bethea  b.1752
American Revolutionary Patriot

5th Cade Bethea b. 1792 SC d. 9/12/1867

6th John Washington Bethea b. 1821 SC d. 4/6/1874 SC

7th MARY ELLEN BETHEA MEDLIN b 4-2-1862, d 2-4-1936
married FRANCIS (FRANK) MARION MEDLIN
8th CARLTON BETHEA MEDLIN b 10-19-1893, d 2-26-1924 married Mary Claudine Webster

 
9th MARY CAROLINE MEDLIN GRAY(11) 
b 12-11-1917, d 3-13-2000  
Married Fred Little Gray

 

 

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

 

 

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