THE BETHEA FAMILY IN NORTH AMERICA - S. Carlton & Frances Smith

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

S. Carlton Smith & Frances Smith
(1904-1998) (1908-1973)

S. Carlton Smith, Frances Haddox Smith, and her brother Robert Haddox
in the Bavarian Alps (Germany) at Bertchesgaden

Nurse Lillian Frances Haddox (Smith), R.N. at time she was
County Health Nurse of Calhoun County, Ark. about 1932 at Hampton

Carlton Smith with one of favorite first cousins, Beatrice (Benson) Johnson
with an early model A Ford during The Depression Years in early 1930's

First Office at Bearden,Arkansas Lumber Mill, Dec. 1944
(Dated from Calendar on wall), Note hand-crank telephone
Photo on desk is daughter, Virginia holding Clare Carlton Smith

1st	English John Bethea b. 1684 d. 1750, m. Lady Upton.
2nd	"Virginia John" Bethea (abt. 1705) m. Sarah Darby Bishop
3rd	William "Sweat Swamp" Bethea b. 1726 married Sarah Goodman. Died in 1784
4th	John "Devil John" Bethea (b. Oct. 1752) m. Mary Henegan
5th	William Bethea (b. July 23, 1775) m. Olivia Pearce , Sarah Hargrove
6th	Tristram Bethea (b. Dec. 3 , 1802) m. Nancy McLaurin, Sarah Todd
7th	Tristram Pinkney Bethea (b. 1836). m. Rebecca Vice
8th	Jenny (Bethea) Smith & Earl Smith Parents of S. Carlton Smith (circa. 1908) 1939 Photo at Bearden , Ark. residence Earle Smith and Jenny (Bethea) Smith with their granddaughter, Frances Virginia Smith Virginia Martha (Bethea) Smith b. Aug. 28, 1881 d. Dec. 31, 1952 m. Earl Quincy Smith Smith Family at The Parthenon, on The Acropolis Hill above Athens, Greece about 1964 S. Carlton Smith, Frances Smith, and Clare Carlton Smith S. Carlton Smith, Frances Smith, and Clare Carlton Smith at the Pyramids of Gizeh near Cairo, Egypt in 1964
9th	1962 Photo of S. Carlton & Frances Smith with daughter Frances Virginia Smith and her husband, Carlos Sabinson & children Sharon, Vickey, Bill, and Marcia Sabinson Clare Carlton Smith at Bearden, Arkansas about 1945