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Re: African-American Bethea, SC, 1800-1900??
Posted by: Debbie	Date: August 17, 1999 at 23:21:23
In Reply to: African-American Bethea, SC, 1800-1900?? by Joseph Bethea	of 791

It is my understanding from what my grandparents had told me as a child, that when the slave families were bought by plantation owners, the slaves would then take the last name of the owners. Know it sounds cruel, but that is what I was told; so as one of the others has said, you may want to check for records of plantation owners by last name of Bethea. There were quite a few around the Marion, Dillon and Latta areas of SC, I believe.
Good Luck.

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Re: African-American Bethea, SC, 1800-1900?? sharon 6/22/00
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  - Re: African-American Bethea, SC, 1800-1900?? Debbie Bethea Lodge 1/30/00

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