Rebecca Anne (Sexton) Daniel (1828 - 1882)

Born 4 Jul 1828 in Standing Rock, Stewart, Tennessee, United States

Ancestors

Died 14 Sep 1882 at age 54 in Bells, Crockett, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Name

Name: Rebecca Anne /Sexton/ ^[1]

Birth

Date: 4 JUL 1828

Place: Standing Rock, Stewart, Tennessee, United States^[2][3][4].

In 1850 Rebecca and Simon were living in Stewart, Tennessee with thier son James(2)^[5]

In 1870, she was the 41 year old, head of the household, a farmer, and living with her children in District 10, Stewart, with her children:

Name Age

Rebecca Daniels 41

James Daniels 22

Sarah Daniels 19

Robert Daniels 17

Minerva Daniels 16

Martha Daniels 13^[6]

Note

Family of Sexton and Daniel

11/8/1993 6. "REBECCA ANNE SEXTON and SIMON DANIEL, both natives of the Standing Rock Creek area of Stewart county, were married April 15, 1847^[7]. They are buried the Cole Cemetery at Standing Rock.

"BECKY ANNE SEXTON was the daughter of Allen and Sarah Sexton, and the granddaughter of Brittain Sexton who came to Standing Rock Creek in 1795.

Her siblings were Salina, John Tyson, and Alabama.

"The Daniels were farmers and slaveholders. David once lived on Long Creek, and iron ore was found on his land. He, or Simon, operated the first stage coach between Clarksville and Dover, according to family lore.

"SIMON DANIEL died of brain fever at 34, in 1857. Becky Anne lived with children and servants during the war, near her husband's brother, Robert, who was guardian of her children. Three of her husband's brothers, in the 50th Tennessee, were killed during the war. Her brother John T. Sexton was captured at Ft. Donelson, later released at Vicksburg, Mississippi, and served the Confederacy throughout the war. Before the war was over all buildings on her place were burned to the ground. In the desolate after-math of the war she moved with son Frank and daughters Manerva and Emma to Bells, Tennessee, where she died.

"The children of Simon and Becky Anne Daniel were James Franklin (Frank), Isabella, Henry, Robert, Manerva, and Emma, who was four months old when her father died.

"Frank Daniel engaged in timbering and farming most of

his life. He married Minnie Wickham of Palmyra, Tennessee. Their daughters Frankie Sellas and Belle Bokas have raised their families at Tampa, Florida.

"Isabella Daniel married Thomas Anderson and had Children William Simon, Harry, James Monroe, and twins Clarence and Clara.

"Robert Henry Daniel married first, Mary Ann (Molly) Parker;

second, Winnie Belle Taylor of Stewart County. His children were Medora Elizabeth (Marable); Rosa (Lewis); Samuel; Ida Belle; Mary Alice; Calvin; Alonzo (Lonnie-Red); Clyde; Bertha; Leonard;

Blanche and Robert Elmer. Robert Daniel was a farmer in Houston County.

"Manerva Daniel did not marry. Emma Daniel married Daniel Black and their only child, Anne Black Scholes, died at Paducah, Kentucky, childless."

[Source: "Stewart County Heritage," Vol. One, Dover, 20

Tennessee, 1980, Stewart County Historical

Society, Pg. 140]

iv.JAMES DANIEL, b. Unknown, Unk; d. Unknown, Unknown - Civil War.

v.BILL DANIEL, b. Unknown, Unk; d. Unknown, Unk - Civil

War.

Children of DAVID DANIEL and MARY CHERRY are: vi.ROBERT C. DANIEL, b. Abt. 1831, Prob. Stewart Co., TN30; d. Unknown, Unk; m. (1) MARTHA I. DAWSON, March 02, 1854, Stewart Co., TN31; b. Abt. 1832, Tennessee32; d. Unknown, Unk; m. (2) MOLLY UNKNOWN, Unknown, Unk; b. Unknown, Unk; d. Aft. 1882, Unk.

More About ROBERT C. DANIEL: Major Residence: Stewart Co.,

TN, 10th Civil District Occupation: Farmer

More About MARTHA I. DAWSON: Major Residence: Stewart Co.,

TN, District 10 Occupation: Housewife

Marriage Notes for ROBERT DANIEL and MARTHA DAWSON:

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA

1. In 1860 Robert 29, and Martha 28, were living in the 12th Civil District of Stewart County, Tennessee with four children and a

Frances

Daniel .

1284-1287 Robert Daniel 29 m Farmer TN

Martha 28 f TN

Mary 6 f TN

Caroline 5 f TN

William 3 m

TN

Virginia 1 f TN

[Doc: 1860 Stewart County, Tennessee Census, 12th Civil

Some Rebecca Sexton History

Becky Anne was the daughter of Allen and Sarah Sexton. She had been schooled at the Dover Academy and was a young teacher. Like her mother she was petite, dark‑haired and blue‑eyed. Becky Anne was known for her home remedies. She gathered herbs and kept them in store for various cures. Neighbors called her when they were ill. And of course the negroes came with their problems. At any time, day or night, she went to the negro cabins to doctor them and sometimes spent hours with the really sick ones. In return, they loved "Missy". Becky Anne was widowed in the same year as the death of her father, 1857. Sarah (Sally) Sexton, her mother, was very homesick for her native Tennessee and wanted to return there from Iowa to die. Becky Anne and her five children set out for Iowa. It was a six weeks trip, by wagon, boat and train to reach her mother's home. Becky Anne adored her little sister, Alabama, who was just four years older than her first child. Perhaps Becky Anne was in Keokuk, Iowa for Alabama's wedding on March 6, 1859 in their mother's home. Or, she went to get her mother to bring her back to Tennessee. Becky Anne, her children and mother made the arduous trip back to Tennessee. Sarah Sexton lived just three months more and died June 3, 1860.

THE CIVIL WAR

Clouds of unrest brewed around the community where the young widow, Becky Anne Daniel, lived with her five children and faithful household servants, Aunt Mary and Uncle John. On the adjoining farm her husband's brother Robert lived with his family. He was the guardian of her children. Outside agitators were stirring up the negroes and causing unrest among them. Most were peaceable but a few plotted an uprising. Secret night meetings were held. An unruly group of negroes from several neighboring farms plotted to kill the men and take the white women for themselves. One plotted to take Becky Anne, it was said. The six ringleaders were caught and put in a large wagon that was driven under the limb of a large tree. Nooses around their neck were tied to the limb of the tree and the wagon was driven out from under them. The war was just around the corner and people were agitated. Becky Anne's brother, three of her husband's brothers and numerous cousins were in the Confederate Army. It was a community of women, children and old men. She owned 9 young men slaves, besides women, children and old men. For fear of an uprising among the slaves, she sent all the field hands down the Mississippi where they were sold in New Orleans. Anne Scholes remembered a lot of old Confederate money in a old trunk. The household servants begged to stay and remained with the family long after the war. Ft. Henry was hurriedly built on the Tennessee river not far from the mouth of Standing Rock Creek. Over on the Cumberland River, Ft. Donelson, a larger and stronger fort was built. Becky Anne and her family lived between the two forts, a few miles from either. Early in 1862 the war moved into Tennessee. Ft. Henry fell quickly. Troops retreating, trying to get to Ft. Donelson, crossed Standing Rock Creek several times in their retreat. Some injured men died on Daniel land. A few days later, 2 1/2 miles from their home, the terrible 3 day battle for Ft. Donelson came in deafening horror. The two sides of the conflict pushed each other back and forth. Becky Anne, the children and the servants barricaded themselves in their cellar. When the battle was over, dead men and horses were scattered all over the area. The 14 year old son worked with the old men of the community to bury dead animals where they lay and to remove young men, from the North and South, to Ft. Donelson for burial. The fall of Ft. Donelson was a turning point in a slow‑moving war. It opened up the Cumberland River for the North. They quickly took Nashville, then Shiloh, and then moved down the Mississippi, all the way down south. It took the North three more hard years to crush the South that fought for the homeplace. After its fall, Ft. Donelson became headquarters for the occupying forces and the people of Stewart County were under the heel of the victors. It was the duty of the Yankee troops to police the Rebels who gave them quite a turn. Guerillas in Stewart County were very troublesome to the occupying forces. An unofficial war was going on. (See note about Peg‑leg Taylor in the text file for Brittain Sexton.) Out of this sad time many tragic, terrible and funny stories have been handed down. It was a young nation embroiled in a Civil War and neither side was very well organized. It was not the intent of the Northern command that so many atrocities be perpetuated on the civilians of the South but they were too busy fighting a war to exercise good control on their men. It was the unofficial things that the Southerners damned the Yankees for. Worst of all were the deserters from both sides that pillaged, looted and raped. The family lived in fear. The very old servant Uncle John slept on a pallet at Becky Anne's door with his gun. He said "Before anyone hurts my Missy, they'll have to step over my dead body". The negroes were terribly afraid of the soldiers from either side. When they would see one on the place, the servant Aunt Mary or her daughter would grab the pot off the stove, (food had to be saved), and take the children uphill to their Uncle Robert's. Once a renegade Yankee came to loot. A 12 year old Isabell grabbed her father's watch off the wall and stuck it in her bosom. The looter knocked her around so hard that the watch was broken. The North had a very long supply line. A hungry army took food where it found it including out of civilian mouths. From Ft. Donelson they came again and again and ordered Becky Anne and Aunt Mary to cook for them. Once a Northern Captain brought 25‑30 men to be fed. It was their payday. The Captain ordered each man to leave a $5.00 gold piece at his place. Well meant, but they had no place to buy food with the money. There were many more times when money was not offered. At last all the meat was gone and all that was left were some chickens. The soldiers came again, chased and caught the chickens. Aunt Mary, tears streaming, fried the chickens for the men. All country kitchens had an ash barrel at the back door. As she cooked, she took pieces of chicken and hid them in the ashes to retrieve after the Yankees left to feed her children. Their lot grew worse and worse until brother‑in‑law Robert Daniel took Becky Anne and her family to his home for their safety. Because of the guerilla fighting plaguing the North, the Yankees finally burned a swath ten miles wide and twenty miles long from Ft. Donelson to Clarksville. Becky Anne Daniel's place was burned to the ground with nothing left standing. When the war was over she was without home, slaves or money. After the war, the oldest son James Franklin Daniel moved with his mother and two younger sisters to West Tennessee in Crockett County near Jackson. They recovered financially and lived comfortably. Becky Anne died in a fever epidemic at Bells, Tennessee in 1882.

Sources

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5. ↑ Rebeca Daniel [Rebecca Daniel] Gender: Female Age: 22 Birth Year: abt 1828 Birthplace: Tennessee Home in 1850: Stewart, Tennessee, USA Line Number: 32 Dwelling Number: 87 Family Number: 87 Household Members: Name Age Sann Daniel 26 Rebeca Daniel 22 James Daniel 2 Source Citation Year: 1850; Census Place: Stewart, Tennessee; Roll: 896; Page: 387b Source Information Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line].
6. ↑ Year: 1870; Census Place: District 10, Stewart, Tennessee; Roll: M593_1564; Page: 346A; Family History Library Film: 553063. Source Information Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census [database on-line].
7. ↑ Rebecca Anne Sexton Gender: Female Birth Place: TN Birth Year: 1828 Spouse Name: Simon Daniel Spouse Birth Place: TN Spouse Birth Year: 1823 Marriage Year: 1847 Marriage State: TN Number Pages: 1 Source Citation Source number: 7182.001; Source type: Pedigree chart; Number of Pages: 1. Source Information: Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line].

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