Wade & Webb Family History

Bethana A McKinney1835–1862

Old Fredonia Primitive Baptist Church · Fredonia

On this page
  1. Family Record
  2. Life
  3. Sources
  4. Notes

Birth

  1. 18 Nov 1835 Place not recorded 1

Marriages

  1. 23 Dec 1852 William E. Page, at Chambers, Alabama 3
  2. 23 Dec 1852 William E. Page, at Chambers, Alabama 3

Death and burial

  1. Sep 1862 Burial: Old Fredonia Primitive Baptist Church, Chambers, Alabama
  2. 17 Sep 1862 Death: Fredonia, Chambers, Alabama 7

Family

Parents
Eli McKinney 1800–1857
Spouse, 23 Dec 1852
William E. Page 1830–1862
Children
Alice E Page 1857–1915
Sarah Emma Page 1854–1936

Line of descent Webb line

  1. Bethana A McKinney
  2. Sister of Eli Harris McKinney Sr.
  3. Emma Louise McKinney, daughter
  4. Lila Walden, daughter
  5. Hilda Webb, daughter
  6. William Albert Webb Wade, son

2nd great-grandaunt of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

Bethana A. McKinney was born on 18 November 1835, a daughter of Eli McKinney and Sarah "Sallie" Gresham, according to the FamilySearch tree, which gives no place of birth and no source; the records spell her name Bethany, Bethena and Bythenia.1 The federal census of 1850 lists her as Bethany Mc Kenny in the household (the people living together at one address, as the census-taker recorded them) of Eli Mc Kenny in Chambers County, Alabama.2 She married William F. Page in Chambers County on 23 December 1852; one index entry gives 22 December.3 The tree names two daughters, Sarah Emma Page (1854–1936) and Alice E. Page (1857–1915).4 In 1860 the census recorded Bythenia A. Page in the household of Wm. F. Page in Chambers County.5 Her husband enlisted as a private in Hilliard's Legion in March 1862, according to the tree.6 She died at Fredonia, Chambers County, on 17 September 1862, and was buried at the Old Fredonia Primitive Baptist Church; her husband died at Fredonia three months later, on 20 December 1862, leaving their two daughters orphaned.7 The Alabama death record of her daughter Sarah Emma Simonton, in 1936, names the father as William Page but the mother as "Amanda Page."8 Inference Since the informant in 1936 was reporting a mother who had died seventy-four years earlier, when the daughter was a small child, the name Amanda is more likely a mistake than evidence of a different mother.8

Sources

Every FamilySearch record attached to Bethana A McKinney.

  1. 1850Bethany Mc Kenny, "United States, Census, 1850"
  2. 22 Dec 1852Bethena A McKinney, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  3. 23 Dec 1852Bethena A McKinney, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  4. 23 Dec 1852Bethena A McKinney, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  5. 23 Dec 1852Bethena A McKinney, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  6. 23 Dec 1852Bethena A McKinney, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  7. 1852Bethena A. McKinney in entry for William F. Page, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  8. 23 Dec 1852Bethena A. McKinney, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  9. 23 Dec 1852Bethena A. Mckinney, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  10. 1860Bythenia A Page, "United States, Census, 1860"
  11. 1936Amanda Page, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LTFT-SF5: birth 18 Nov 1835, no place, no source attached; parents Eli McKinney and Sarah Sallie Gresham; other name Bethenia A. McKinney back to the text
  2. "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, Bethany Mc Kenny in entry for Eli Mc Kenny, 1850. Record: Bethany Mc Kenny in entry for Eli Mc Kenny, 1850 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LTFT-SF5: residence 1850, Chambers, Alabama back to the text
  3. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, William F. Page and Bethena A. Mckinney, 23 Dec 1852. Record: William F. Page and Bethena A. Mckinney, 23 Dec 1852 "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, William F Page and Bethena A McKinney, 22 Dec 1852. Record: William F Page and Bethena A McKinney, 22 Dec 1852 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LTFT-SF5: marriage 23 Dec 1852, Chambers, Alabama back to the text
  4. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LTFT-SF5: children Sarah Emma Page (1854–1936), Alice E Page (1857–1915) back to the text
  5. "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, Bythenia A Page in entry for Wm F Page, 1860. Record: Bythenia A Page in entry for Wm F Page, 1860 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LTFT-SF5: residence 1860, Chambers, Alabama back to the text
  6. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LJ5K-4GF (their page): military service 10 Mar 1862: Private in the Fifth Battalion of Hilliard's Legion Company A, no source attached back to the text
  7. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LTFT-SF5: death 17 Sep 1862, Fredonia, Chambers; burial Sep 1862, Old Fredonia Primitive Baptist Church, Chambers FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LJ5K-4GF (their page): death 20 Dec 1862, Fredonia, Chambers back to the text
  8. "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Amanda Page in entry for Sarah Emma Simonton, 1936. Record: Amanda Page in entry for Sarah Emma Simonton, 1936 "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, William Page in entry for Sarah Emma Simonton, 1936. Record: William Page in entry for Sarah Emma Simonton, 1936 back to the text