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Jacob Sexton Sr. (abt. 1785 - 1875)

Rev Jacob Sexton Sr.
Born about in Virginia, USAmap
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 89 in Dutch Mills, Washington, Arkansas, United Statesmap
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Biography

Jacob is buried in Bethesday Cemetery, near Morrow, Arkansas, Washington County, Arkansas.

The Sextons were living in Gallatin, Illinois in 1820 and were living in Washington Co., Arkansas in 1830.

Jacob was a Methodist Minister and one of the first preachers around McClaines Bottom. He was named as one of the members of the first board of directors of Cane Hill College at Cane Hill, Washington Co., Arkansas, which was established by the Cumberland Presbyterians, Ot 28, 1834.

He was a circuit rider for the White River Circuit in the 1840s. The Sexton's lived in a community of Sexton (which was named for the family and lies about 2-1/2 miles north of Dutch Mills, Washington Co., Arkansas.

Sexton community was the largest Indian Trading Post on the Arkansas-Oklahoma Territory line. William H. Sexton, son of Jacob Sr., named the Post Office, plotted a town site, and old lots to the settlers. The name was later changed to Salem Springs.

After Dorthia (Dorothy) died, Jacob Sr., married Amanda (unknown last name).

Sources


  • Family information as collected by Pauline Carmack Cox, collaboration of family members and old family bibles from across the USA, about 1953-1956.

www.luginbuel.com Genealogy Section, Luginbuel Funeral Home, Prairie Grove, Arkansas

  • "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M674-LKM : 12 April 2016), Jacob Sexton, Vineyard, Washington, Arkansas, United States; citing family 37, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
  • "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M8W9-RR6 : 13 December 2017), Jacob Sexton, 1860.
  • "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QVVZ-ZKNK : 13 December 2015), John Jacob Sexton, 1875; Burial, Morrow, Washington, Arkansas, United States of America, Bethesda Cemetery; citing record ID 10642268, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
  • "Reeds 1710-981", by Bonnie Sellers, of Riverside, California, second printing, by Malcolm E. Davis, pages 27-30.

Information entered here by Charlene Cox Scott (Cox-17269)





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