Talk:Red Bethea

Latest comment: 9 years ago by Dirtlawyer1 in topic No birth place

No birth place

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Does anyone know where he is from? Cake (talk) 20:02, 25 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

I believe your best shot at finding Bethea's hometown/birth place would be his senior entry in the University of Florida's Seminole yearbook for his senior year. I don't have an Ancestry.com subscription, but I believe they provide online digital images of the entire yearbooks by school year. I know Cbl62 has a subscription, but he's been a bit of a ghost for the last month or so; he'll turn up again soon, I'm sure. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 21:27, 25 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
Yes, the family was from the small towns of Trenton and Bell just outside of Gainesville, Fla. The Bethea family migrated from S.C. right after the Civil War ended; the newspaper article that claimed Bethea was the son of a Georgia farmer is not accurate. Twalls (talk)