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- !CENSUS:1870 Marion Co., SC Bethea, Reedy Creek PO # 102/106
Josh Summerford 35 Farm Laborer $-/- SC
Sally 30 " "
Alfred 9 " "
Mary 7 " "
Clarisa 4 " "
Shade 10 " "
Henderson Bethea 34 Farm Laborer
Andrew 30 W* Physician $2800/225
Ann M. 25 Domestic
W. J. George 36 Farmer $368/-
Sarah 23 Keeping House**
* Everyone listed as "B" before Andrew, though that might be a census error as this census was pretty sloppy. It is also possible all of these weren't actually in same household.
** Elizabeth Blackman, Sarah George's mother, next door.;
!DEATH & OCCUPATION:From the Marion Star - "Genealogical Abstracts from Marion, South Carolina Newspapers 1858-1886" Abstracted by Gloria Calhoun, Pee Dee Chapter SCGS, Marion, SC 1999;
!REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 199-206
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Of the daughters of the Rev. Joel Allen, Annie Maria, the oldest, married Dr. Andrew J. Bethea, son of Rev. S. J. Bethea; he died in 1881, and left three sons and two daughters ; the sons are Herbert, Percy and Andrew, and are all young men of fine character. Andrew is now in Wake Forrest College, N. C. ; all unmarried.* [*Herbert Bethea has recently married Miss Eva Manning, daughter of the late Houston Manning. ;
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1840 - 1881 (41 years)