Marth Sexton was born in 1803 in North Carolina to Mark and Susannah (Bennett) Sexton. She married Joel Brock on November 15, 1821 in Blount, Tennessee, United States. Martha was the mother of King (born 1822), Bennett (1823-1864), Parthena (1824-1849), James Emerson (1826-1901), Oliver (born 1829), Ransom Samuel (1830-1891), Richard (1833-1880), Mary Ann (born 1834), Margaret (1836-1898), Hiram (born 1838), Elizabeth Jane (1840-1924), Nancy (1842-1930), George (born 1844), and Martha (born 1846). She died in 1880 at the age of 77 and is buried in Powell Cemetery in Carroll, Missouri.
Fact: Residence (1850) Carroll, Missouri, United States
Fact: Residence (1860) Wakonda Township, Carroll, Missouri, United States
Fact: Residence (1870) Wakenda, Carroll, Missouri, United States
Fact: Burial Powell Cemetery, Carroll, Missouri, United States
Sources
1850 Census: "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDZ7-M2N : 22 December 2020), Patsy B Brock in household of Joel Brock, Carroll, Missouri, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
1860 Census: "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHZ9-K47 : 18 February 2021), Patsey Brock in entry for Joel Brock, 1860.
1880 Census: "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M66K-YHF : 14 January 2022), Martha B. Brock in household of James E. Brock, Beaty Township, Carroll, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .
Marriage: "Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VN4G-427 : 4 December 2014), Joel Brock and Patsey Sexton, 15 Nov 1821; from "Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2008); citing p. 21, Blount, Tennessee, United States, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee.
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