Bethenia Tennessee Hardeman
b. 29 September 1832, d. April 1901
- Father: D. Hardeman b. circa 1806, d. circa 1864
- Mother: Sarah Ann Nicholson b. 17 December 1808, d. April 1901
- Bethenia Tennessee Hardeman was born on 29 September 1832 in Tennessee.
- D. Hardeman and Sarah Ann Nicholson appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Matagorda County, Texas. Other members of the household included Bethenia Tennessee Hardeman.
- She married Napoleon B. Viser, son of William Viser and Rachel Brazelton, circa 1851.
- Ann Lewis Hardeman wrote in her diary on 2 June 1851: Received a letter fom my bror D from N.O. all well--a Newspaper containing the marriage notice of my dear Bethenia which was celebrated on the 29h of April 1851 to Dr Napoleon B. Viser--they seem to be highly pleased---hope they will do well---he writes despondingly about his picuniary affairs--my dear nieces Sally and Bethenia are now married. May God bless them & prosper them in all things. -- & make them good wives & a blessing to their husbands---Sally has a little girl Ellen Lewis Hardeman. Not quite a year old a very interesting child. [From An Evening When Alone: Four Journals of Single Women in the South, 1827-67.]
- Bethenia Tennessee Hardeman became a widow at the 27 May 1852 death of her husband Napoleon B. Viser.
- Samuel Wilson Hardeman and Sally Ann Hardeman appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Hardeman PO, Hardeman County, Texas. Other members of the household included Bethenia Tennessee Hardeman, Ellen Lewis Hardeman, Fanny D. Hardeman, John M. Hardeman and Bailey Hardeman.
- Bethenia Tennessee Hardeman died in April 1901 at age 68 in Goliad County, Texas.
- Last Edited: 25 Feb 2010