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 1791 - 1869 (78 years)
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| Name |
Chester Bethell |
| Birth |
7 Jan 1791 |
Spartanburg County, South Carolina  [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Residence |
Fieldon, Jersey County, Illinois [3] |
| Military |
Mexican War Veteran [3] |
| Death |
0Jul 1869 |
Fieldon, Jersey County, Illinois [2, 3, 4] |
| Person ID |
I10643 |
The Hennessee Family |
| Last Modified |
5 Jan 2020 |
| Father |
Sampson Bethell, b. 19 Jul 1750, Frederick County, Virginia d. 10 Feb 1806, Smith County, Tennessee (Age 55 years) |
| Mother |
Mary Cantrell, b. 4 Dec 1754, New Castle County, Delaware d. 1820, Warren County, Tennessee (Age 65 years) |
| Marriage |
24 Aug 1773 |
Rockingham County, North Carolina [3, 5, 6] |
| Residence (Family) |
1787-1788 |
Spartanburg County, South Carolina [3, 6] |
| Family ID |
F1837 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
unnamed spouse, b. (Knox County, Tennessee) |
| Residence (Family) |
1813 |
Fort Kaskaskia, Illinois [3] |
| Marriage |
2 Aug 1815 |
Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee [3] |
| Residence (Family) |
1820 |
Gallatin County, Illinois [3] |
| Residence (Family) |
1829 |
Greene County, Illinois [3] |
| Residence (Family) |
1846 |
Jersey County, Illinois [3] |
| Family ID |
F20333 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Apr 2023 |
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| Notes |
- CHESTER F. BETHEL, BORN 7 JAN 1791
He had ten children.
Chester appears on the list of members of Bildad Baptist Church in Warren (now DeKalb) Co., TN, in 1812, but was granted a letter of dismission by 1816.
He is said to have moved to Ft. Kaskaskia, IL in 1813.
Like his father, he moved several times.
In 1820 he was in Gallatin Co., Illinois; in 1829 in Greene Co., Illinois; near Springfield, Missouri, in 1846; and in Jersey Co., Illinois, in 1850.
He spent his last years living with a son near Fieldon, IL, where his wife died in 1867 and where Chester died in 1869.
He had been a farmer all his life.
He served in the Mexican War. Co., F (Capt. Abram M. Savage's Co.) 3rd Reg., TN Infantry.
Enrolled at Smithville, TN, mustered in at age 22, Oct 5, 1847 at Nashville, as a corporal, mustered out July 22,1848, at Memphis as a corporal.
Death: abt 1869 in Fieldon, Jersey County, Illinois.
Married: 2 Aug 1815 in Knoxville, Knox, TN
end of biography [3]
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| Sources |
- [S13424] "The Early Bethells and Their Descendants", by Virginia Bethel Mohler Garde,, p. 91 (Reliability: 3).
- [S15060] Constance Bethel Cantrell (1776-1848), Cemetery Profile, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175747531/constance-cantrel.
- [S15061] Sampson Bethel (1750 - 1806), Ancestors, Descendants & Biography, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bethel-26, This person,.
- [S13424] "The Early Bethells and Their Descendants", by Virginia Bethel Mohler Garde,, p. 138 (Reliability: 3).
- [S5667] "The Early Bethells and Their Descendants", by Virginia Bethel Mohler Garde,, p. 133 (Reliability: 3).
- [S51643] http://www.tngenweb.org/dekalb/sbethell.htm.
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