Excerpt from A History of Marion County, South Carolina: From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901 And Evander S. Bethea; the daughters were Rebecca, Absala, Mary, Catharine and' Sarah Ann. Levi married Miss Mary Ann Bethea, a daughter Of John Bethea, Of the Sweat Swamp set, and had two sons, Henry L. (who died in youth), and George, and four daughters, Sophia, Hannah Jane, Louisa and Charlotte. Of these, Sophia married William H. Smith, on Buck Swamp, and had and raised sons, Samuel O. Smith, Wm. B., Henry E. K. And John B. Smith, and two daughters, the wife of B. S. Ellis (first cousins), and Hamilton Edwards' wife. Hannah Jane Bethea married John C. Bass, and died childless. Louisa Bethea married James F. Galloway, and has a family of two sons, Henry and James, and four daughters, Sallie, Rebecca, Mary and Rachel. Charlotte Bethea married John E. Henry, who lives on the Old William Bethea home stead, and has already been noticed in or among the Henry family. George Bethea, son of Levi, married a Miss Camp bell, daughter of the late Edward Campbell, and has five sons, Edwin, Henry, Gary, Robert and Chalmers. Think Edwin lately married a Miss Smith, daughter of Marcus L. Smith. William S. Bethea, second son Of William Bethea by his Sheck elford wife, married: Miss Sarah Ann deberry, of Marl borough; by her 'he had two children, a daughter, Missouri, and a son, William Henry. Missouri became the first wife of John H. Hamer; she died, leaving one child, a son, Missouri Robert Hamer, who has already been noticed in or among the Hamer family. The son, William Henry Bethea, 'married, first, a Miss Wilson, of Wilmington, N. C., and by her he had two daughters, Adaline and Ella, both single, and two sons, Wilson and Hen-ry (twins) Henry died in 1899; Wilson sur vives, and is unmarried. William Henry's first wife died, and he married, a second time, Miss Ellie Sherwood; she has one son, Evander S., a 'boy nearly grown. William Henry Bethea died in 1891 or 1892, a felo de se. Frank Bethea married, late in life, Miss Rebecca Manning, daughter of Woodward Man ning; had one child, a son; father and son (an infant) both died the same year; the widow, Rebecca, married twice after that, and has already been mentioned among the Manning fam ily. George J. Bethea married Miss Irena Page, daughter of Captain William Page; they had and raised two sons, William. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.