| Bates and Surrounding Communities - People, Places, Events The William Riley and Susan Miller Bethel Family |
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| William Riley and Susan Nell Miller Bethel. Susans diary, or yearbook as she called it, is very informative and gives an extremely good glimpse into the lives of people in the area in the late 1800's and early 1900's. It mentions many friends and neighbors as well as family members which adds to its value as a document of the time and place. You must read excerpt from Susan Bethels Diary ! For 1917 Or 1918 |
William Riley Bethel and his children. Front - Robert Lee Bethel, William Riley, Eban Baker Bethel. Back - Nellie Mae Bethel Smith , Cora Belle Bethel Bently, Blanche Miller Bethel Gilmore. (Photograph from 1935 or early 1936. Eben was murdered in 1936, while investigating a forest fire). | |||||||||
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| The William Riley Bethel Family of Cauthron in 1915. People are from left: William R. and wife Susan (Miller) Bethel, Robert Lee and wife Mary Etta (Harrell) Bethel holding Edna Gray, Thomas J. and wife Beulah M. (Bethel) Gray, Henry J. and Clara Mae (Bethel) McCord, Lillie (Bethel) and husband Isaac I. Ransom. The children in front are Ora Bethel (Harrison) and Henry Bethel daughter and son of Robert L. and Mary E. Bethel. William Riley Bethel was a Methodist Preacher and Farmer in Cauthron. | Robert Lee and Mary Etta (Harrell) Bethel with their Children and Grandchildren at Waldron in about 1929. Husband with wife from left - Henry and Beulah (Davis) Bethel, Robert L. and Mary Etta (Harrell) Bethel, Thomas J. and Beulah (Bethel) Gray, Issac Ike and Lillie (Bethel) Ransom, Henry J. and Clara Mae (Bethel) McCord, Ray and Ora (Bethel) Harrison. Robert Lee Bethel was a merchant in Waldron for many years. He was on the Bates School Board in 1911. | |||||||||
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| Robert Lee and Mary Etta (Harrell) Bethel. Mary Etta's father was Henry Hamilton Harrell of Weeks, her mother was Sarah Roxie Ann Whitaker. (Note: I haven't been able to find who or where Sarah Roxie's family was from, if you know please let me know! J. Cook) | Robert Lee and Mary Etta (Harrell) Bethel with their daughters. Left to right are: Lillie Ransom (wife of Ike Ransom), Clara McCord (wife of Henry J. McCord), Etta, R. Lee, Ora Harrison (wife of Ray Harrison) and Beulah Gray (wife of Tom Gray). | |||||||||
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| The William Austin and Cordelia (Williams) Bethel Home in Gipson in about 1920. Austin, Cordelia, Juanita, and Wayne are on porch. Austin Bethel was a partner in the mercantile busness with James S. Cook at Gipson until about 1922. Their house (seen above) had burnt and they decided to move to San Diego, California where Austin was in the Concrete Construction business for years. They took-in the younger Cook children (Iva, Faye and J. Otto) when James S. Cook died in 1918. Austin was a brother of Robert Lee Bethel. | Juanita Bethel, daughter of William Austin and Cordelia Bethel. She had moved to California with her parents and lived there with her own family for years. | |||||||||