Alice Bethea
Alice Bethea was born on December 18, 1847, in South Carolina to Elisha and Martha Bethea. Her father was a farmer who owned $35,000 of real estate and $43,000 of personal property by 1860. She grew up and attended school in Marion, South Carolina. She married Daniel Asbury Smith, and they had at least four children: John, born around 1866; Elisha, born around 1870; Julius, born around 1873; and Augustus, born around 1878.
They lived in Bethia, South Carolina, and her husband worked as a farmer. Her husband died on August 1, 1883. She moved to Birmingham, Alabama, around 1890. By 1920, she was living in her son Augustus’s household in Birmingham. She died there on August 3, 1929.
Image: Alice Bethea (Birmingham Post-Herald, 5 August 1929)
DATABASE CONTENT
| (4334) | Bethea, Alice ~ Smith, Alice | 1847-12-18 | 1929-08-03 |
- Conflict Side: Confederacy
- Role: Civilian
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- Gender: Female
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 1
- (11935) [writer] ~ Alice Bethea to Mary J. Smith, 21 January 1863
Places - Records: 2
SOURCES
1850, 1860, 1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Alabama Deaths and Burials Index, 1881-1974, available from Ancestry.com; The Birmingham (AL) News, 5 August 1929; Birmingham (AL) Post-Herald, 5 August 1929
