Marty and Karla Grant

The Genealogy of Marty Grant and wife Karla Mangus Grant.

1799 - 1863 (64 years) Has 14 ancestors and 8 descendants in this family tree.

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Name	John C Bethea
Birth	1798/1799	Georgetown Dist, SC (now Marion Co, SC)
Gender	Male
_TAG	Uncle/Aunt ancestors
_UID	E230898DD2DAD4118AC44445535400003793
Death	22 Jan 1863	Marion Dist, SC
Person ID	I18424	Marty and Karla Grant
Last Modified	3 Feb 2019

Father	William Bethea, b. 1770/1774, Georgetown Dist, SC (now Marion Co, SC) d. 13 Jun 1840, Marion Dist, SC (Age 66 years)
Mother	Crawford, b. 1755/1774, Georgetown Dist, SC (now Marion Co, SC) d. 1800/1807, Marion Dist, SC (Age 33 years)
Marriage	1790/1798	Georgetown Dist, SC (now Marion Co, SC)
_UID	C8CD15F5A32CDA4FA799307683801FEA8976
Family ID	F605	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1 Catherine Ann Allison d. 1843/1850, Marion Dist, SC

Marriage 1840/1843 Marion Dist, SC

_UID A16258F064A3BE4E8540488EBF0C5D557636

Children

1. Edwin A Bethea, b. 1842/1843, Marion Dist, SC

Family ID F9183 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 21 Aug 2026

Family 2 Sarah Ann Davis, b. 1818/1819, Marion Dist, SC d. Aft 1880, Marion Co, SC (Age > 62 years)

Marriage 1843/1850 Marion Dist, SC

_UID FEFDC46E6374644F89A264103C318BCA1811

Children

1. John C Bethea, b. 1860, Marion Dist, SC

Family ID F9184 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 21 Aug 2026

Notes

!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. 142-147
...
Crawford. - James Crawford, the grand-father of the late Chapman Crawford, had a son named James, the father of Chapman; whether there were other sons or not, is not now known ; there were daughters - the wife of old Osborne Lane was one; the first wife of old William Bethea was another, who was the mother of the late John C. Bethea; another daughter married a man by the name of Porter ; she was the grand-mother of Robert P. Porter, now living at Marion. ;

!CENSUS:1800 Marion Dist, SC pg 785 w/William BETHEA age 0-9 (1790/1800);

!CENSUS:1810 Marion Dist, SC pg 86B w/William BETHEA age 10-15 (1794/1800);

!NAMED-PROBATE ROLL # 162 Marion Co., SC James Crawford, Sr. 1817
Will dated 16 Sep 1816 (see full transcript in James Crawford's notes)
Proved by John Finklea 11 Nov 1817. James Crawford qualified as Executor 11 Nov 1817.
... (Sales, appraisements, etc. in file, I did not abstract) ...
Account Current 1818 and 1819, James Crawford, Exec.
...
Paid John Tart heir to said estate
Paid: (not listed as heirs, but some are heirs)
B. Moody
Jas Stackhouse
John Gasque
John Bethea
John K. Windham
Abijah Porter
John Jones
Jesse Moody
Levi Blackman
Osburn Lane
John Davis
John Bridges
Hugh Crawford
John Gibson
Proved 31 Mar 1820 Thomas Harllee, Ordy...
* From "Marion County Probate Records" Volume 1, Lucille Utley, Danny Smith. Three Rivers Historical Society. 1985.;

!CENSUS:1820 Marion Dist, SC pg x w/William BETHEA Jr age 16-25 (1794/1804);

!CENSUS:1830 * Marion Dist, SC pg 3 w/William BETHEA age 40-49 (1780/90);

!CENSUS:1840 Marion Dist, SC pg 148 John C. BETHEA age 30-39 (1800/10) "000001-0";

!CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist, SC # 1302 John C. BETHEA, 51 (1798/99) born Marion;

!CENSUS:1860 Marion Dist, SC # 766
John C. BETHEA, 62,
Sarah A., 42
E. A. (m), 17;

!REFERENCE:"A History of Marion County, South Carolina" by W.W. Sellers, Esq. 1902. Pg 395 - 421;

!NOTE:See Equity Roll # 284 for details of this family;