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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)