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I've saved the most important testimony for last because it comes from the Lotts. And not the Winnifred #1 Lott family that Marshall's mother came from, but the Winney #2 family that his 1/2 brothers and sisters came from.
Page 83 Adele's book:
From Mrs. John A. Lott of Columbia SC for her husband's account of Matthew's two Winnefreds, which she related to the Genealogist, Mr. Leonardo Andrea.
Available at the University of South Carolina at Columbia or on microfiche at a LDS Research Library Bettis File #1 and #2
"The 1790 census, SC, lists Matthew Bettis as married, no child, one slave. Two daughters were born in SC did not leave the state. A son, Jesse was born there, perhaps the eldest son; John, we know, was born in 1796......Another son Marshall was born to the first wife. Winney, mother of the first family, was alive in 1796. Just when she died we cannot know.
Winnefred Lott, daughter of Jesse Lott, Sr. was my husband's great aunt. She was, according to him, the second wife of Matthew Bettis. His first wife was another Winnefred Lott, the daughter of Jesse's brother Mark, the second wife's first cousin.
Mark Lott had removed to Mobile Co., Alabama, father of the first wife, Winnefred. He owned Lott's Ferry and prospered greatly....When he died he remembered his daughter Winnefred's children very generously.. I have heard Mr. Lott say that Matthew Bettis left all his estate to his second wife and when she died, the first set of childen got none of the estate, although some of them were in Alabama, except one son who went to Tennessee and Jesse who stayed in South Carolina. Mr. Lott said this caused a lot of hard feelings between the two sets of children, and that Jesse in particular was very bitter toward his stepmother. The children of the two Winney Lotts became more and more estranged.....Mrs. Lott said that a Marshall Bettis of Tennessee once as an old man visited once in Johnson County, S.C., in the home of Mr. Lott's father when John A. was a little boy. This Marshall Lott was a son or grandson of Matthew Bettis she thought. Mrs. Lott said that this was related to her by her husband."
Julie Bettis Currier
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