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NOTES:  There are several discrepancies when comparing to the Census Records of the Children:

1880 Chilton Co Census shows:   MARY L  age 9/12 (Nine months old) -  I believe this is MAMIE Cynthia Letcher?
1880 Chilton Co Census shows:   Francis D  age 8 yrs old.                         I believe this to be MINNIE F LETCHER?
1880 Chilton Co Census shows:   William E  age 3 yrs old.                         This Wm probably died young. Would have
                                                                                                                  been born abt. 1876/1877. 
1900 Chilton Co Census shows:   Richard Letcher 26 yrs old b. 1874.        Was living next door to Uncle John J Letcher.
                                                                                                                   Is Steven (Stephen) Richard Letcher, or 
                                                                                                                   Richard Stephen Letcher.

**All of Thomas Giles Letchers, children are written on the Winona Letcher Hunt Bible Record, most with birth dates. 

**Will need to view the 1900/1910/1920 & 1930 for Thomas's children, to find his Grandchildren. We have a few. 

**Be aware that the Census Takers used Middle Names as First Names and consistently made mistakes in spelling.

**Bible Records are not gospel either, by example, I find errors in entries quite frequently, another 'Beware'. 
    It is the combined sources that give us the ability to make our own judgments, which are always, subject-to-change!

Misc. NOTES For Thomas Letcher:

LAND GRANT (1889)

Thomas had a 40 acre Grant issued by the office of President Benjamin Harris.
The land was located in Montgomery County AL.

Stephen T Letcher Family Bible recorded Thomas's birth and name as:
Thomas Jiles Letcher b. 10 Nov 1841

Death of Thomas G Letcher is recorded in Bible record of Winona Letcher Hunt:
 27 Sept. 1897.

Alabama Marriages:

Thomas Letcher to B F Parker 17 Dec 1866 Place: Perry Co AL
By Justice of the peace: 
Surety/Perf. Name: W N Mitchell
OSPage: 7

1870 Dallas Co Census Plantersville District Page 552 

108 - 108
Letcher, Thomas  26 M W Farmer  AL
Bethanie                 22  F W kepHse AL (Maiden name Parker)
John                    8/12 M W             AL

Living in same household: Could be relatives of Bethanie, or siblings.

Parker, Henry 14 M W AL farm labor 
Margaret        17  F W AL farm labor
Ezeikel           78 M W SC Blind

LIVING NEXT DOOR:  (Parents of Bethany)

107 - 107
Parker, Richard 65 M W Farm Labor 1600 600 SC
Francis             60  F W KepHse                      SC

NOTE: From Cousin Bob Campbell:
Cousins,

Thomas Giles Letcher and Bethena Parker are my great grandparents. That is
her parents living next door from SC. I haven't even had time to look into
the Parker's so it could be her grandfather, but I don't have any of her
siblings named like that, could be her cousins?

Thanks,
Bob

1880 Chilton Co AL Census page 47b (they misspelled the last name as LATCHER)
Beat 8 - ED Dist 28 - ED date 23 June 1880 - PAGE 47 

ftp://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/al/chilton/1880/indx-har-mar.txt

308 - 317
Thomas G Letcher 39 M AL AL AL
Bethene F              29  F AL SC SC
Jasper W               12 M AL AL AL (all children born AL)
Francis D              08  F AL Dau
Steven R               06 M AL Son
William E              03 M AL Son 
Mary L               9/12 F AL  Sept Dau
NOTE: ""John"" who was born 1870, died in 1877.

NEXT DOOR:  (Bethany's Parents)
309 - 318
Parker, Richard W M 89 Farmer SC VA NC
Frances            W  F 71  wife     SC SC SC

ANOTHER NOTE: The index at the above website, misspelled the last name, the district and beat are listed wrong also... on the web page, even the hand written census made error in male & female of this Letcher Family. 

Provided by: Sandra Knight:

1910 Chilton Co., AL Precinct #8 ED date 15 April 1910 p. 128A (Sheet 1a)

3 - 3
Letcher, Richard head M W 35 AL AL AL  (Son of Thomas)
Laura E.                 wife F  W 28 AL AL AL
Jettie S.                   dau F  W 11 AL AL AL
Wyonie C               dau F  W 09 AL AL AL Winona? 
Clayton E.              son M W 08 AL AL AL
Ira F.                      dau F W 05 AL AL AL (probably Ora F.)
Lola V.                  dau  F W 02 AL AL AL

WINONA LETCHER HUNT BIBLE RECORD: 

At age 13 ????'s Mother Cara Norris married Steven Letcher, their children"
1.   Henry Letcher
2.   Bake Letcher
3.   Tolbert Letcher
4.   Eliza Letcher (married Washburn Hartly)
5.   Lavenia Letcher (married Jim Shaver)
6.   Mary Letcher (1st married Bill Sheer? 2nd Shelbery?)
7.   Sally Letcher (married George Smith)
8.   Jimmie Letcher (married a Pardue)
9.   Pearlee Letcher (also a Pardue)
10. Cilia Letcher (married Jim Kinney)
11. Thomas Giles (maried Bethany Frances Parker, my grand parents)
12. John Letcher (married a Sue - 2nd time had 10 sons) was asphyxiated in LA at a very
     old age. His 10 sons by his first wife.

BURIAL GROUND OF THOMAS AND BETHANY LETCHER: 

Stephen Tolbert Letcher is buried in Dallas County, AL at Fellowship Church
Cemetery close to Plantersville, AL where my grandfather was born. Buried
beside him are Thomas Giles Letcher, my great grandfather, and Bethaney
Parker Letcher, my great grandmother. There a few other side lines of mine
buried there and some that I am surprised not to see that lived just about a
mile down the road as I remember. I helped my dad and uncle work in that
cemetery when I was about 8-10 years old. That info came from a book called
"Am I My Own Grandpa", put together by some Rush, Carter, and Horton 
ladies that live there. I just talked to June Carter a week or two ago and she is
ready to publish another book. Stephen Tolbert's stone is shown as broken, 
I do want to go and see about the stone.

Cousin Bob Campbell

1860 Perry Co AL Census - Plantersville Beat Page 688 ED 20 Jul F Smitha

370 - 370   page 682
Richard Parker 62 M Farmer 600 1368 SC  
Frances            50 F  wife                   SC
James W          15 M labour                AL
Bethena F         12 F                           AL  (Bethany Parker Letcher, Thos's wife)
Ezekiel             70 M                           SC
Pernilla Little    71 F                            SC

364 - 364 page 683
Enoch Parker 31 M Farmer 000 330 AL      (Could be brother/relative of Bethany's)
Cynthia         34  F  wife                  AL
Frances A      11 F  all born             AL
Louvina J?     09 F
Margaret J?    06 F
Sarah E         05 F
Richard H     03 M 

Picture taken at Bill & Jennie Reedy's farm (1916/1920)
Left to Right: Jennie, Louise, & Bethena Parker Letcher

Picture & Story by Bob Campbell

By Cousin Bob Campbell:

     The is a picture that I got from a great grandson of Jennie L. Reedy. It was made between 1916 and 1920 is my guess, and appears to be at Jennie and Bill's farm outside of Plantersville, AL. 

     Standing on the left is Jennie L. Reedy at about 43 years old. Sitting in the Chinaberry tree is my grandmother, Louise Smith Letcher, wife of Clyde William Letcher at 16-20 years of age. Clyde and Louise were my grandparents, she was born in Atlanta in 1900 and was 15 when they got married there in 1916 the same year her parents died.

     Standing on the right is no other than Bethena Parker Letcher, my great grandmother.

     I was climbing in that same tree about 25-30 years later getting chinaberry's to shoot in my slingshot. The open field beyond there is where I helped dig sweet potatoes and peanuts, the potatoes went in a root cellar and the peanuts went in the loft of one of their barns to dry out. Later on there was a gate attached to that tree and the road ended there unless you went on the barnyard, at the other end of the road lived her oldest son, Morris Usher Reedy. He was a Forest Ranger and had one of the meanest roosters I have ever seen. I went to see him and Aunt Betty one day and that rooster jumped on me and pecked and spurred me from head to toe, I was a red bloody mess by the time Betty got out there and ran him off. Then came the old country cure all, a bottle of alcohol. By the time that rooster and Aunt Betty got through with me they could have caught me for reckless running.
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COMMENT from Cousin Mike:

"I just wonder, if Cousin Bob's Sling Shot & those Chinaberry's had anything to do with that Rooster takin-after-him.."  :)   ha!