Mary Ann (Gilbert) Sexton (abt. 1764 - abt. 1853)

Born about 1764 in Virginia

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Descendants

Died about 1853 at about age 89 in Cocke, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

This profile is part of the Gilbert Name Study.

Mary Ann (Gilbert) Sexton was born 1756 died 1853.^[1],^[2] She married in 1780, "Dilly" John Sexton (1759 - 4 Jul 1844) [son of Joseph Saxton and Phoebe Campbell ]

Proof of Parentage

• On August 30, 1844 in Sevier County Tennessee, Elizabeth Galyear, 72, testified in support of Mary Ann Sexton's widow's pension application based on John Sexton's service. Elizabeth stated that she was born about the year 1772 in Bedford County Virginia and that she was the half-sister of Mary Ann Sexton. She also stated that she lived with John and Mary Sexton 53 years earlier when they lived on New River in Grayson County Virginia. She also stated she was the half-sister of the widow Mary Ann Sexton by her father Daniel Gilbert.
• In support of the same widow's pension Isaiah Gilbert testified, on July 19, 1844, in Greene County Tennessee, Isaiah Gilbert, 64 on the 9th November

1844, that he was born in Bedford County, Virginia on 9 November 1780. And that he was the half-brother of Mary Ann Sexton both having the same father.

• Daniel Gilbert Sr was proven to be in Bedford County, Virginia on the birth dates given by Elizabeth Galyear and Isaiah Gilbert. And he is known to have married a second wife after Mary Ann Sexton's birth, but prior to the births of Elizabeth Galyear and Isaiah Gilbert.
• Isaiah Gilbert first enters the public record in Spartanburg County, South Carolina in 1805, when he witnesses a deed from Daniel Gilbert Sr to Daniel's named son Samuel Gilbert. In 1809, Isaiah witnesses a deed for Daniel Gilbert Sr's probable son Thomas Gilbert.
• There is no known evidence contradicting the above facts, or in any way indicating that either Mary Ann Sexton, Elizabeth Galyear or Isaiah Gilbert could be the children of anyone other than Daniel Gilbert Sr.
• Because of the above evidence, we can safely say that Mary Ann Sexton was the daughter Daniel Gilbert Sr. and his first wife Elizabeth (maiden name unknown).

Children

1. William D. Sexton b. 1782 Grayson, Virginia m. Polly Elizabeth Cock Married 17 Sep 1800, Grayson, Virginia,
2. Benjamin Franklin Sexton b. 1785 Grayson, Virginia, m. Nancy Taylor Married 16 Feb 1829 , Loudoun, Virginia,
3. Elizabeth Sexton b. 1786 Grayson, Virginia m. James E. Cock Married 28 Sep 1800 Grayson, Virginia
4. Gilbert D. Sexton b. 7 Dec 1786 Grayson, Virginia,
5. Henry Miller Sexton b. 1790 New River, Grayson, Virginia d. 25 Oct 1865 Knob, Greene, Tennessee [FAG MEMORIAL ID 31395622] In the records of New Hope Monthly Meeting, Henry names his parents as John Sexton, b. 14 May 1759, and Mary Ann Gilbert, b. 1765. Henry Married 1st on 28 June 1817 Lucy Deming Ford and had Martha Meranda, Henry W., Elizabeth Jane, James Alexander, and Sarah Ann Sexton. Married 2nd on 27 Jan 1848 there in the New Hope Meeting House Nancy Ann White and had Margaret Jane and David Miller Sexton.
6. George Sexton b. 1792 Grayson, Virginia m. Julia C.
7. Ramsey Sexton b. 1792 Grayson, Virginia
8. Judith Sexton b. 15 Jul 1794 Grayson, Virginia, d. 1845 m. John Cronwell Married Feb 1810 Grayson, Virginia
9. Elijah Sexton b. 1798 Hanover, Virginia d. 12 Feb 1864 Andersonville Prison Camp, Richmond, Virginia. m. Sarah Rollins Married 3 Oct 1820 , Spartanburg, South Carolina
10. Nancy Sexton b. 1803 Grayson, Virginia. m. Jacob Cutshall. Married 27 Nov 1845 Del Rio, Cocke, Tennessee,
11. Hiram Sexton b. 4 Mar 1804 Montgomery, New River, Virginia d. 1877 Spring Creek, Madison, North Carolina. m. Serena Doe, ? Hiram's father.s DAR appl says m. SORENA ELIZABETH BENNETT
12. Lorenzo Drew [Dow ?] Sexton b. 1805 Grayson, Virginia d. 1868 Henderson, North Carolina. m. Anna Cantrell. Married 1828 Henderson, North Carolina
13. O. D. Sexton b. Abt 1805 Grayso n, Virginia
14. Isaac Sexton b. Abt 1807 Grayson, Virginia, m. Nancy Unknown.

Notes for John Sexton: Events • - He served in the military 14 Virginia Regt in 1777. 390 Enlisted in Jan 1777 in Charlotte Co VA in Capt Meshaw's [Michaux] company in the 14 Virginia Regt. • - Served 3 years and was discharged at Frederick Town Maryland by Col John Webb. He stated that he was at the battles of Brandywine, Jirmantown (sic), Monmoth in the regular service. After his discharge he was at the battle of Guilford NC in the militia. • - He served in the Militia of Montgomery County, Virginia, in 1780. 389 (Militia of Montgomery County, Virginia, 1777-1790 by Mary B Kegley pg 23) - Capt James McDaniell Company [undated list] John Sexton [list also contains names of Charles and Benjamin]

John Sexton applied for a military pension 6 Oct. 1819 Buncombe Co., NC at age 57, however on 6 Oct. 1821 he gave his age as 62 with a wife age about 56 & 3 children at home. Hiram age 21 in Aug. 1821, Nancy, age 18, and Lorenzo, age 16. John lived in Charlotte Co., VA at enlistment.

John's widow, Mary Ann applied for pension on 18 July 1844, age 80, her half brother Isaiah Gilbert made an affidavit in Green Co., Tenn on 19 July 1844 & stated he and she had the same father & he stated he (Isaiah) was born 9 Nov. 1780 in Bedford, Co., Va. and that the marriage took place before he was born ^[3][4]

Notes for Mary Ann Gilbert: pp. 377-378 Greene Co., TN March 1st, 1845

"personally appeared ... John Cornwell, a resident of County and State aforesaid ... that he is 55 years of age past, and is the son-in-law of Mary Ann Sexton, widow of John Sexton ... that he married the daughter of the aforesaid John and Mary Ann Sexton in Grayson County Virginia in the month of 1810. That his wife Judah or Juditha never had any record of her age ... that she had a record made upwards of 20 years ago in the aforesaid County of Grayson, ... and from the recorded age of Elizabeth Terrel who was born and raised in the same neighborhood that his wife the aforesaid Judith was born in, both having been born within a few days of the same date, to wit July 13th 1794. ... That he has heard ... the aforesaid John and Mary Ann Sexton declare that they were married in the County of Bedford State of Virginia ... He knows they have lived together as man & wife up to the 11th July 1844 on which day ... John Sexton died in the County of Green ... widow still resides in said County"

Sources

1. ↑ Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls; Repository: #R8
2. ↑ 1850: District 11, Cocke, Tennessee1850 United States Federal Census
3. ↑ (Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, Volume III: N-Z, John & Mary Ann Sexton, Virginia Line, W172. abstracted by Virgil D. White. Published by the National Historical Publishing Co. Waynesboro, Tenn. 1992)
4. ↑ Gilbert, Isaiah Witness to Sisters Widows Pension record image of record on Ancestry.com Tree

• Husband's DAR record https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A102261

Acknowledgements

• This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import created by Richard Schultheiss through the import of Richard's Family Registry_2014-11-15_02.ged on Nov 15, 2014.