Preston Lang Bethea

Preston Lang Bethea was an American farmer and politician.
Born near Dillon, South Carolina, Bethea went to Wofford College in 1887 and 1888. He then graduated from Peabody College in 1891. Bethea was a farmer near Clio, South Carolina. He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1911 to 1914. Bethea then served in the South Carolina State Senate from 1919 to 1923. He was an educator and lay preacher in the Methodist church. He was married to Josephine Weatherly of Marlborough County. They had two children, Weatherly Bethea and Mary MacLeod Bethea. He died at his home, Sunset Knoll, in Dillon County, South Carolina, after a long illness. His grandchildren were Elizabeth Bethea, Benjamin Franklin Hardy Jr., Preston Bethea Hardy, and Clifford Hensley Hardy.