Joseph "Joe" Bentley
and Sarah
Elizabeth Potter
Joseph "Joe" Bentley b Apr 1861 Pike
Co KY s/o
Simeon Bentley and Nancy
Hall. Joseph "Joe" Bentley m. 27 Apr 1883 Letcher Co KY to Sarah Elizabeth
Potter b Dec 1862, d/o
Isaac Potter and
Elizabeth Emiline Bentley. Visit Family Photo Gallery
Children of Joseph "Joe" Bentley and
Sarah Elizabeth Potter;
 Lafayette Bentley b
16 May 1884 KY d 17 Apr 1962 Pike Co KY; m.
about 1903 to Melvina Hall b 2 Feb 1886 KY d 20 Dec 1954 Beefhide, Pike Co KY;
buried Bentley Cemetery, Beefhide Creek, KY; d/o Richard Hall and
Olive "Ollie" Bryant (Mullins).
Isaac "Ike" Bentley b 25 Jun 1884 m. 1914 to
Cora Mullins b about 1895
KY.
Martha Jane Bentley
b 29 Nov 1888 KY d 7 Sept 1968 Letcher Co KY; m. James Houston b 20 Dec 1891 KY d before 1930. Martha Jane Bentley m. Nov 1924 to
King Solomon "Sol" Fleming b 29 Nov
1881 Pike Co KY d 5 Jan 1925 Beefhide, KY buried Etty, Pike Co KY; s/o
John
Jefferson "Jeff" Fleming and Mary Frances Johnson. King
Solomon "Sol" Fleming m. (1) to
Tacy Kelp Burnside b 10 Oct 1887 Raleigh
Co WV d 14 Nov 1971 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co OH buried Newtonsville, Clermont Co
OH; d/o Joseph Hampton Burnside and Sarah Jane Laverty (aka Lafferty). Tacy Kelp
Burnside m. Floyd Anderson Lewis. Martha Jane Bentley m.
John Tackett b 1874
(found in hh of Martha Jane Bentley in 1930 Pike Co KY Census listed as servant.
Martha listed as widowed).
Benjamin
Harrison Bentley b 29 Mar 1891 KY d 12 Oct 1984 Perry Co KY m. 7 Mar 1912
Letcher Co KY to Roxie Potter b 10 Aug 1892, d 17 Dec 1980; d/o
William Potter and Nancy
Mullins. Benjamin and Roxie lost 5 children in infancy. Children
of Benjamin Harrison Bentley and Roxie Potter;
I. John L Bentley b
17 Jul 1918 Pike Co KY d 10 Jun 1999
II. Roosevelt Bentley
b about 1924 KY
III. 5 children died in
infancy
Obituary: BENTLEY, Roxie Potter B: 10 August 1892; D: 17 December 1980.
Parents: Bill & Nancy Potter Married: Harrison Bentley. Children: John L. of Dorton, Ky; & Roosevelt of Jenkins, Ky. Five children died in infancy. 7
grandchildren; 8 gr-grandchildren. Sisters: Martha, Ellen, Mary, & Lizzie.
Brothers: Floyd, Sam, & Melvin. Baptized: (No date) She was a member of the
Bethel Old Regular Baptist Church for 63 years. Written by her family,
assisted by Elder Charles V. Nitchie.
Mary Adeline Bentley b Oct 1893.
Simon Bentley (aka Simeon)
b 20 Mar 1896 d 1985 m. about 1916 to
Virgie Little b 18 Nov 1898 KY d 23 Nov
1970 Letcher Co KY.
Margaret Bentley
(aka Marget) b Mar 1898.
Theodore Roosevelt Bentley
b 3 Nov 1901 Pike Co KY d 6 Jun 1975 Pike Co KY, m. 24 Dec 1925 Myra Pike Co
KY to Bessie Norma Sowards b 10 Mar 1906 Pike Co KY d 31 Mar 1954, d/o Martin
Van Buren Soward and Angeline Mullins.
Mark Hanney Bentley
b 20 Jan 1903 KY d 12 Oct 1986 Letcher Co KY; m.
Maude Belcher b about 1903 KY.
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