Abraham Lincoln Bethune and Lydia Hanan

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Husband Abraham Lincoln Bethune ¹

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           Born: 29 Dec 1861 - Newlonsburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: Jacob Hill Bethune (Abt 1829-1883) 1 2 3
         Mother: Christina Hall (      -      ) 1 2 3 4

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       Marriage: 26 Mar 1885 1

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Wife Lydia Hanan ¹

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         Father: John Hanan (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Bessie Else (      -      ) 1

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1 M Howard L. Bethune ¹

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2 M Charles W. Bethune ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Abraham Lincoln Bethune

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After attending the public schools, he was a student at Laird Institute. Completing his course in this institution, he assumed charge of his father's business, conducting the same for two years, and after two years in that line at Manor Station, he moved to Jeannette, Pennsylvania. He became a prominent citizen in that place, following his calling with success and profit for twenty-two years. He was also a dealer in real estate, and was a director of the First National Bank. For many years he was burgess of Jeannette, and was for a number of years a notary public and justice of the peace. Mr. Bethune was the owner, after his retirement from business, of a summer home at Newlonsburg, his residence being in Wilkinsburg. His death occurred after an illness of fifteen months.
He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Improved Order of Heptasophs, the Protected Home Circle and the Knights of Malta. He was a communicant of the First Presbyterian Church.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 872.

2 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 727.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 434.

4 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 668.