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Notes for Charity Bethea
The following obituary is believed to have appeared in the New Orleans "Christian Advocate" (a Methodist publication) on 2 November 1859:
Mrs. Charity Bethea Hybart was born in Marion District, S.C., about the year 1792 and
died at her residence in Monroe Co., Ala., Sep. 3rd 1859. She joined the M.E. Church,
South, in the year 1851 ... In her death her children have lost an affectionate mother; the
community, a good citizen; the needy, a ready friend; the sick, a kind visitor; the Church
a worthy and pious member.
What church, if any, she belonged to prior to joining the Methodist Church is not known. Celia Bethea, her mother, had joined the Franklin Street Methodist Church in Mobile by letter of transfer on 17 April 1853. Her brother, Tristram B. Bethea, was an elder in the Montgomery, Alabama, Presbyterian Church some years later. A diary kept by William Kennedy Norton, a Methodist preacher, spoke of visiting her and her mother in 1852 and 1854 at Bell's Landing. William K. Norton was the son of John Wesley Norton, a first cousin of Charity Bethea Hybart. John W. Norton had been a member of the South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church before locating and moving to Barbour County, Alabama, about 1828. His mother was Patience (Harrelson) Norton, wife of William Norton, and
sister of Celia (Harrelson) Bethea (mother of Charity Bethea Hybart). John Wesley Norton was also the great great grandfather of Mary Ellen Lee who married William C. Stapleton, Jr. (111 771). It was the discovery of this relationship after some fifteen years of marriage which led the compiler to undertake this work.
William C. Stapleton, Jr. Hybart Family History.
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