Captain William Bethell, a former officer in the Confederate army and a well known Colorado pioneer and capitalist, died at the home of his daughter in this city shortly before midnight. He had been failing in health for some time and only recently returned from California where he spent much time seeking to regain his health.
He was a Captain for the Confederacy in the Civil War and served in Company A, 22nd Tennessee Infantry Regiment.
Captain Bethell was a southern gentleman of the old school and came originally from Memphis, Tenn.
In the early 1880s his father built a hotel in Columbia, Tennessee and named it Bethell House. Captain Bethell became the proprietor of the hotel. It was right in the middle of town, and it became one of the great Southern hotels of the late 1800s and 1900s before it burned in 1948. The hotel was purchased by Webb Ridley and Joseph Marcus Dedman in the mid-1890s, and it became known as the Bethel Hotel. It continued to prosper as a center of activity.
Mayor of Memphis 1891-1893
He was a Captain for the Confederacy in the Civil War and served in Company A, 22nd Tennessee Infantry Regiment.
Captain Bethell was a southern gentleman of the old school and came originally from Memphis, Tenn.
In the early 1880s his father built a hotel in Columbia, Tennessee and named it Bethell House. Captain Bethell became the proprietor of the hotel. It was right in the middle of town, and it became one of the great Southern hotels of the late 1800s and 1900s before it burned in 1948. The hotel was purchased by Webb Ridley and Joseph Marcus Dedman in the mid-1890s, and it became known as the Bethel Hotel. It continued to prosper as a center of activity.
Mayor of Memphis 1891-1893
Captain William Bethell, a former officer in the Confederate army and a well known Colorado pioneer and capitalist, died at the home of his daughter in this city shortly before midnight. He had been failing in health for some time and only recently returned from California where he spent much time seeking to regain his health.
He was a Captain for the Confederacy in the Civil War and served in Company A, 22nd Tennessee Infantry Regiment.
Captain Bethell was a southern gentleman of the old school and came originally from Memphis, Tenn.
In the early 1880s his father built a hotel in Columbia, Tennessee and named it Bethell House. Captain Bethell became the proprietor of the hotel. It was right in the middle of town, and it became one of the great Southern hotels of the late 1800s and 1900s before it burned in 1948. The hotel was purchased by Webb Ridley and Joseph Marcus Dedman in the mid-1890s, and it became known as the Bethel Hotel. It continued to prosper as a center of activity.
Mayor of Memphis 1891-1893
He was a Captain for the Confederacy in the Civil War and served in Company A, 22nd Tennessee Infantry Regiment.
Captain Bethell was a southern gentleman of the old school and came originally from Memphis, Tenn.
In the early 1880s his father built a hotel in Columbia, Tennessee and named it Bethell House. Captain Bethell became the proprietor of the hotel. It was right in the middle of town, and it became one of the great Southern hotels of the late 1800s and 1900s before it burned in 1948. The hotel was purchased by Webb Ridley and Joseph Marcus Dedman in the mid-1890s, and it became known as the Bethel Hotel. It continued to prosper as a center of activity.
Mayor of Memphis 1891-1893
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