James
Sexton
Born about in Grayson, Virginia, United States
Ancestors 
Son of William Lemuel Sexton
and Leah Virginia (Free) Ferree
Brother of
Archibald Sexton, Isaac Sexton, Olivia Jane (Sexton) Snyder, Enoch Sexton, Margaret Sexton, Fredrick Free (Sexton) Sexson, William W Sexton, Samuel Lemuel Sexton, Joel Banton Sexton and Easom Isham Sexton
Husband of
Mary Polly Rodgers
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Hulda Ford (Sexton) Whitman and Charlotte Sexton
Died
at about age 65
in Laurel, Kentucky, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 20 Oct 2010
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Biography
James Sexton was born about 1789 in Grayson, Virginia, United States, son of William Lemuel Sexton (1747 - 1830) and Leah Virginia (Free) Ferree (~1756 - 1839).
James married Mary Polly Rodgers (born in Kentucky, USA in 1804; died in Whitley, Kentucky in Jul 1849).[1]
James's other children were:
- Hulda Ford (Sexton) Whitman (1829 - 1910)
- Charlotte Sexton (1830 - 1880).
James was in the 1819, 1820, and 1821 Tax list for Whitley County, Kentucky.
James died in 1854 in Laurel, Kentucky aged ~65. James was mentioned on a memorial with a death date of 4 Jul 1854.[2]
Sources
- ↑ "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKJS-2HX8 : 9 March 2021), James Sexton and Polly Rogers, 20 Jun 1828; citing Marriage, Whitley, Kentucky, United States, various county clerks and county courts, Kentucky; FHL microfilm 532,640.
- ↑
Memorial:
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Find A Grave: Memorial #66857006
Memorial page for James Sexton (1790-4 Jul 1854).
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with James:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with James:
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~3.12%
Jim O'Brien
:
AncestryDNA
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~1.56%
Tom Chaney :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member tomchaneyphotography
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Chris Hamlin :
23andMe
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A564981 [compare], Ancestry member Cghamlin1
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~0.78%
Daphne Noble :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member daphneisabella
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~0.78%
Sean Chaney :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A149463 [compare], Ancestry member seancchaney
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~0.78%
Susan Tye :
Autosomal DNA Test, GEDmatch H896098 [compare]
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Keith Hathaway
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Keith Hathaway
Sexton-177 and Sexton-905 appear to represent the same person because: The needed information for you to merge is on the profile.
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by Keith Hathaway
Cathy (Dickerson) Champion
Sexton-905 and Sexton-177 do not represent the same person because: Birth date is only item comparable. Not enough info to merge and add a child.
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by Cathy (Dickerson) Champion
Susan Tye
Sexton-905 and Sexton-177 appear to represent the same person because: http://www.sexton.pasttracker.com/pat_oconner/sexton-3.htm
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by Susan Tye
Rejected matches › James Sexton (1789-)
James is 14 degrees from Maria Mitchell, 22 degrees from Carl Sagan, 20 degrees from Tycho Brahe, 30 degrees from Nicholaus Copernicus, 24 degrees from Eise Eisinga, 19 degrees from Caroline Lucretia Herschel, 24 degrees from Thomas Maclear, 13 degrees from Simon Newcomb, 17 degrees from Isaac Newton, 24 degrees from Pierre Henri Puiseux, 23 degrees from Beatrice Tinsley and 14 degrees from Edith Woodward on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.