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SIMON CAMERON BETHUNE, undertaker, post office Turtle Creek, is a grandson of Henry Gilmer Bethune, a cabinet-maker, who came from Ireland and settled in Westmoreland County, Pa., where he died at the age of seventy-two years. Jacob Hill Bethune, son of Henry G., married Christina Hall. Both were natives of Pennsylvania, and settled in Newlinsburg, where Mr. Bethune carried on cabinet-making and undertaking until his death, which occurred in 1883, when he was fifty-four years old. He was well known, and did business in a circuit of twenty-five miles around his home. He had six sons, each of whom took up his father’s calling, and two daughters; only three of the former and one of the latter are now living. Simon C., the fifth son, was born Dec. 6, 1858; was married on Nov. 2, 1880, to Mary Ellen Cline, who was born and reared within a mile of her husband’s home. Mrs. Bethune’s parents, Andrew and Catharine Cline, were of German descent. In the spring of 1881 Mr. Bethune bought a house in Turtle Creek, settled there and engaged in the sale and repair of pumps, together with undertaking, and now gives his attention exclusively to the latter. In 1886 he built the fine residence and office which he now occupies. Politically he is a republican. He is connected with the Reformed Church, and with the following benevolent orders: Knights of Mystic Chain, R. A., Jr. O. U. A. M., I. O. O. F. and K. of P. His children are named, respectively, Mowen Wilberforce, Jennie Luellen and Laura Edith.