Tristram Benjamin Bethea (April 12, 1810 – September 6, 1876) was a prominent Alabama lawyer and politician.
[1] Bethea was born on April 12, 1810, in Marion County, South Carolina.
His paternal ancestors were early French Huguenot settlers of South Carolina.
He permanently moved to Montgomery County, Alabama shortly afterward.
They had seven children: Mary Ann, Sarah Cornelia, Henry, Alfred, David, Theodore, and Andrew Jackson (A. J.)