Tombstone Tuesday - Marion J. Bebout

Marion J.

Bebout

Born

May 25, 1848

Died

Dec. 9, 1908

Buried Good Hope Cemetery, Karber's Ridge, Hardin County, Illinois. Tombstone photographed 27 November 2017.

Marion J. Bebout was born in Crittenden County, Kentucky and was the son of Peter and Harriet C. (Wilson) Bebout.[1]  Marion J. Bebout married (1) Rebecca J. Lewis 3 February 1871 Crittenden County[2] and later married Mary F. Carnett[3] and was the father of 10 children with nine surviving by 1900.[4]

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[1] 1850 Crittenden County, Kentucky Census, Dist. 1, page 229B, image 273, Ancestry.com, accessed 5 December 2017. Also 1860 Crittenden County, Kentucky Census, West Half of County, p. 355, PO Carrsville, Family 389, Dwelling 289, Ancestry.com, accessed 5 December 2017.

[2] Brenda Joyce Jerome. Crittenden County, Kentucky Marriages, Vol. II, 1866-1886, (Evansville, IN: Evansville Bindery, 1991) 37.

[3] Illinois, Death & Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947, Ancestry.com, accessed 5 December 2017, death of James Bebout 6 April 1942 lists his parents as Marion Bebout and Mary Carnet.  

[4] 1900 Hardin County, Illinois Census, Roll 305, p. 9A, E.D. 0062, Ancestry.com, accessed 5 December 2017.

Published 13 February 2018, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/