Bethea Cemetery

“Pleasant Ridge”

T13N-R7E-Sec 35

Canton Bend, Wilcox County, Ala.

This cemetery has been destroyed. There may be other graves here. This record was taken from Wilcox County Library Records, donated by Louis M. Finlay.

Sacred to the Memory of

DAVID BETHEA

Who Departed This Life

The 25^th Day Of May 1845 in

The 80^th Year Of His Life

He Died As He Lived, An Acceptable

Member Of The Baptist Church

MARY ANN PLEDGER

Wife Of David Bethea

{She is buried in the Bethea Lot Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Alabama, with her daughter and son-in –law, Eugenia V. Bethea and Tristram B. Bethea}

ALFRED JOSEPH PLEDGER BETHEA

Born October 1, 1812 in

Marlboro County, S.C.

Died April 24, 1831 At Canton Bend, Ala.

Aged 19 years, 6 Months, 24 days

SARAH ANN BETHEA STROTHER

IRVIN

Daughter of David and Mary Bethea

Born April 11, 1797 in Marlboro County, S.C.

Died November 24, 1858 at

Bridgeport, Wilcox County Alabama

MALCOLM WASHINGTON SMITH

Son of Duncan C. and Ann Smith

Born March 22, 1818

Died March 8, 1880

EUGENIA CAROLINE BROWN

Wife Malcolm Washington Smith

Born April 5, 1825

At Linden, Marengo Co., Alabama

Died August 3, 1878

At Canton Bend, Ala.

BRIDGES

Infant Son Of

Judge John W. and Elizabeth

Bethea Bridges

OLIVER HAZARD PERRY WRIGHT

Born June 11, 1821

At Statesburg, Sumter County, S.C.

Died of Yellow Fever

October 23, 1853

Canton Bend, Alabama

ANN MARIA BETHEA

Wife of Morgan Gilbert Brown

Born December 15, 1802

In Marlboro County, S.C.

Died September 6, 1838

Canton Bend, Alabama

EUGENIA CAROLINE WRIGHT

Born March 24, 1849

Died March 28, 1878

David Bethea

Son of T. B. and Eugenia Bethea

May 16, 1840-June 2, 1840

Note: This cemetery has been destroyed. There may be other graves here. This is a reconstruction from family records.