James was born about 1814. He passed away in 1891. He was the son of Sebbeus Main and Sarah Wright.
BURIAL Hennen Cemetery #2 Monongalia County, West Virginia, USA
First-hand information as remembered by Mary Hammond, Tuesday, July 1, 2014.
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and the family subsequently moved to Monongalia WV. I think his father and mother are Sebbeus II (Main-995) and Mary Keenan (Keenan-699), although how James got lost among all those siblings is unclear. The branch is a bit tangled around the two wives named Mary Keenan and the several spellings of Sebbeus (Sabeus, e.g.) in the census documents. I'm gonna see what I can dig up.